Brooke continues to be more and more clever and funny. She's realized her coat also fits backwards, and was running around like this. Fortunately she never got hurt... yet, but she had a great time of it!
One of Monica's friends, Julia, does a story time at her house. This past week was pretty well attended! The girls love to go and hear stories and play with the other kids! So they all had a wonderful time.
Brooke and Winry continue to be best friends! Here they are, snugga-bugga-ing! In fact, they love each other so much that it was the main sore spot on Brooke's and my trip to Utah! Brooke missed Winry, and Winry missed Brooke. They even called each other a few times.
Here's Brooke and I at 4:45 in the morning getting read to go to the airport! Brooke was so excited the second she woke up!
Monica dropped us off at the airport and got this cute picture of Brooke and me walking in to check the car seat. There was no line, so that was great. I signed up for TSA pre a few months ago, and this was my first trip with it. It was AWESOME! I highly recommend it. The line was very short, and you just leave everything in your bag! We flew through.
We stopped and got a bagel on our way to our gate. After eating our bagels we opened Brooke's backpack to find something to do. We spent some time doing a coloring book that Monica had slipped into Brooke's backpack and surprised us with. Brooke also brought her binoculars "in case we went to the zoo." We used them to look at the planes out the window. We had a great time.
Finally it was time to board. Just look how excited Brooke is to get going on our trip! The flight was great, and Brooke got to watch a bunch of her favorite shows. She watched a little of everything with TOTS, Doc McStuffins and Goldie and Bear all available.
Our flight got into Salt Lake about 30 minutes early, so we had a little extra time at the airport since we surprised my dad by landing so soon. I plopped Brooke's car seat out and it was back to the coloring book. It's a pretty neat one. It has activities on each page. As an example, there was a page full of fairies, and you'd find all the fairies with X and color them a color. Or you'd color all the squirrels orange. Stuff like that. Brooke loved it.
Eventually my dad picked us up, but since we were there a day early we needed somewhere to hide, so he dropped us off at Westminster with Niki. We were planning to spend the night at her house. Thanks to the early flight, we managed to get there before her lacrosse team's film session ended, so we got to take part.
Meanwhile, back in Denver, Monica and Winry were at IKEA. Look how happy Winry is to be up on that couch! They met the some friends there and had a great time together.
After film sessions ended, we headed to Hire's Big H because Brooke is a super hamburger lover right now!
Hires is in part known for their root beer, so you know I couldn't pass that up! Don't worry, I shared some of it with Brooke!
Brooke was so excited when her burger arrived! She pounded through a whole two bites of it before declaring, "I'm full!" Oh yeah, forgot to mention, Niki gave her a full size Snickers right before we left Westminster (she only had half) ... She also ate a few fries too. Anyway, she said the burger was great and loved "Big Pink H."
At lunch we also met up with Gram and Michelle and her boys. As much as I try to remember to get pictures for the blog, I am terrible at remembering to get pictures with the people we visit places... Sigh. So I don't have a picture of Gram, but I do have a picture of Brooke playing "shoot the cars" with the boys. Michelle was in the background too, so... half success?
After lunch we ran what ended up being a full day's worth of errands. We went to a party store to look for things like balloons for the breakfast. Brooke found a 4 pinata, and she'd love one for her next birthday (but it should be a 5).
We also found some great monster hats! To be honest, there was a bunch of stuff here that we found and enjoyed... and then put back! We're great window shoppers.
Several errands later, including a stop at D.I. where we looked through the board games (and bought 2!) we were at Niki's house. Niki showed us the room she prepared for us, and brought in a cot for Brooke to try out to see if she'd rather sleep on it or an air mattress. Brooke LOVED the cot! She also found a pink unicorn waiting for her down in the room too! Thanks Niki! Brooke was exhausted from the day, so we had to speed up the sleepover festivities. While Niki worked on dinner, we played one of the new board games we bought and made cookie dough. We ate dinner, rolled out and cut cookies, put them in the oven, put on pajamas and read stories, pulled the cookies out of the oven and ate one, brushed teeth and then went to bed. We just kept bouncing back and forth. In the end Brooke was in bed by 7:30, which is maybe just a little later than she typically stays up.
At home, Monica and Winry were also having a sleepover. They ate "cereals" for dinner per Winry's request, and then watched a movie, which was technically two episodes of TOTS. Winry also requested that they wear matching pajamas! Look how much fun Winry was having!
The next morning Brooke got up at 5:30... a little on the early side. I think she was still just too excited. We were the first one's up by 2 hours, so we spent a lot of time sneaking around the house and being very quiet so we didn't wake everyone else up. We ate breakfast, I showered, and we played Brooke's new board games down in our room. When Spencer woke up he was very complimentary of Brooke and told her she was the best whisperer for her age he'd ever met. She really did do a great job of keeping quiet while everyone was asleep.
A little before 9 we headed to The Dodo for breakfast and to surprise my mom. A little after we got to the restaurant, all of Brooke's tiredness hit and she got really sad. She just couldn't help herself. I felt really bad for her, and we all tried our best to cheer her up. She cheered up to various amounts throughout the breakfast. In the picture below you can kind of see that she's snuggled into my arm pit. That's how I spent most of breakfast. Anyway, I was a little distracted and didn't get any pictures of my own.
After breakfast, we headed to my parents house and Brooke laid down for what would be a three hour nap. While she was asleep I went through my parents' piano music, and hung out with my family. When Brooke woke up she was a little sad for a minute or two while she was waking up, and then she was happy and back to her usual self. When she came downstairs she was playing with everyone and having a great time! It was nice to have happy Brooke back!
A little after Brooke woke up, it was time to head back to the airport and back home. Brooke was very excited to see Winry again. All the travel went well again, though Brooke's car seat took a REALLY long time to come out. We went out to wait for Monica to get there, or, more accurately, to finish her 5th loop around the airport. When she pulled up Brooke sprung up to give Winry a bear from Niki! Winry didn't get quite as excited as I had expected, however she was also very tired at this point. She loves that bear though!
After that, we came home and put the kids to bed. Everyone slept well last night and Brooke slept in pretty late this morning, which is very good. Both girls are even taking a nap right now too! Everyone needs the rest. Also, I got a trip recap slideshow thing from Google photos to enjoy. My brother took more pictures of my Mom's breakfast and is gong to post them up sometime, so expect to see more of those next week (unless I edit this post and stick them in, which I might...).
Monica and I stayed up last night and watched BYU take down the Zags! My whole family went to the game! I booked my plane tickets to leave too soon or I could have been there too! It's probably best I didn't try to go with how tired Brooke was getting. It was still great to get to watch. GO COUGARS!!
That's all I've got for this week! It was great to get to see so much family in our short time out in Utah. If you went out of your way to say hi we appreciate it! We love you all and were so glad we got to spend some time with you!
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