Sunday, September 6, 2020

Playing in the Backyard

What a fun week!  We got to spend some time having fun in the sun!  That's especially good as summer is coming to a close.  Yesterday we cleaned and refilled the pool and the girls had a great time playing in it!  The weather has been up in the 90's just about every day lately, so playing in the water is definitely the preferred way to be outside.  While everyone played in the backyard I was in the garage building and staining the bunk beds.  Don't worry, I forgot to take a picture!  Maybe next week.


Last Sunday Winry went up to play in her room with Violet and fell sleep on her chair!  I think it's really cute when she falls asleep in random places in her room.  Also, good thing the beds are getting close to done, then she'll have a bed she can climb in and out of on her own! (although she'll still probably just sleep in random places)


Here's Winry putting on some flip flops on Monday.  I don't remember where we were going, but she was being really cute so I took a picture.


For preschool this past week, the girls got to make bird feeders.  Monica saved some toilet paper rolls, and the girls covered them in peanut butter.


Once the peanut butter was on it was time to coat them in seeds.  Speaking of seeds, we have a large bag of sunflower seeds if anyone is interested.  Anyway, once they were covered in seeds and a string was put in the top they were ready to be hung in a tree!  Monica also punched holes in the bottom so they could put a stick through for the birds to land on.


The girls were very excited to see all the birds that were coming to enjoy a snack, so they sat down and waited.  They may have been waiting a little too close.


After a while they came in for lunch, and we set them up at the window to watch for any partakers.  This was a much better set up, and while they were eating their first customer arrived!  If you know anything about our backyard, you know that the first to come was a squirrel.  All the seeds but one were gone by the time I was done working that afternoon and went out with the girls to see their bird feeders.


The girls wanted to go "camping," so we set up the tent in the backyard.  We would pretend to sleep, then have cereal for breakfast, and then go to the zoo, mountains, lake, hiking, etc. all in the backyard.  Very busy days.


Jelly is finally warming up to her new pet bed.  I'm not sure if it had a smell she didn't like or something at first, but she's come down and laid in it a few times this past week.  She definitely doesn't use it as much as she used the cardboard box before it, but I'm sure she'll get there.  While we're in the Jelly corner of family news, Jelly has also learned to shake very well.  We've also had something very interesting, likely a squirrel or bunny, in our front yard in the evening, and Jelly watches it very intently.


The girls came running with me on Thursday, and each of them took turns running.  When Winry was running I took a picture and thought "I'll take one next time Brooke runs" and then forgot!  I'll try to remember to get a picture of Brooke pushing the stroller this week.


In preschool, the girls also got to do animal rescue.  Monica got a bunch of little plastic animals and filled bins with water.  Then the girls would use things like our slotted spoon to save them from the water.  The girls loved this, and spent all day of two days in the backyard playing with them.


Brooke built a fort out of her bed this past week.  It was a pretty big deal, and she's ended up making one every day since.  If you look closely you can see her face in the gap between the blankets.


I started working on tiling around the fireplace this past week.  I put the bottom row in Friday night.  I was going to do more last night, but I finished staining the bunk beds pretty late and just headed to bed instead.  Hopefully I'll get the tile done this next week, or else Monica might go crazy!


Also, as a preview of things to come for next weeks blog, it is currently looking like we'll get to play in the pool and have a hot dog roast tomorrow!  It also looks like we'll get to sled in 6 inches of snow on Tuesday!  So be prepared for a little bit of everything!  I'm excited to play in the snow, so I really hope it happens!


That's a wrap for this week!  Have a wonderful week ahead.

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