Ahoy. The days are ticking down and we're now only 3 days away from the new baby! At this very moment I feel tired, which is probably a bad omen... This past week I spent a bunch of time in the backyard with the kids that currently wake me up at 3 am. We had fun playing in the leaf pile again. It's too bad we can't have leaves all year, though I don't know how long I could happily go move the pile every few days to make sure the grass doesn't die.
Winry and I headed out first. After a fluffing of the pile it was time to jump in!
Winry really loves to grab big handfuls of leaves and throw them up in the air. That might explain why she leaves a trail of leaves all over the house for the rest of the day! It's impossible to get all of the leaf pieces out of her hair.
Not too long after we headed out, Brooke changed her mind and joined us. We tried crazy things like somersaulting into the leaf pile and even cartwheels! As you can see, the girls are capable of doing cartwheels. I took a slow motion video of the girls jumping in, and spent some time throwing them into the pile. They could have spent the rest of the day doing that... but I couldn't, so we just did it a few times.
My mail in ballot came this past week. I'm almost done filling it out. While I think it's great to have more than 2 choices for president, I think this is a little excessive/ridiculous.
Brooke and Winry have really been into taking care of their baby dolls lately. At preschool this past week they even had a baby day! The girls loved it. The babies even got to participate in the freeze dance song!
Jelly continues to think that she is the new baby... I hope it's not a rude awakening when we come home with a human her size this week. We fortunately have multiple places we can lay the baby down, so he and Jelly should be able to coexist peacefully. Also, look at those legs popping out the side!
On Wednesday after work we went out to do some swinging. While Brooke was swinging, Winry started to bring her leaves. Winry would hand them to me, and I'd hand them to Brooke and she would release them into the air. They both thought this was insanely entertaining. The next time it was Winry's turn to swing, she wanted to release leaves too. Brooke went inside, so I got a chair and sat by Winry so I could push her and get leaves from the ground.
On Saturday I wanted to mow the lawn for hopefully the last time this year, so I needed to clean up the leaf pile. Brooke came out to help me put everything into a bag. She likes to come help me every year! Why?
Because she gets to sit on the bag to smash the leaves down! I think the first time we did this together was 2 years ago, and Brooke is always very excited to sit on the bag every year. It's nice because she's more excited about sitting on the bag, and not sad about cleaning up the pile.
On Saturday Gram drove out to spend some weeks with us! She came out to help with the new baby. The girls were very excited all day! Gram read the girls their bedtime stories last night. Currently, everything is better if Gram does it, and I won't complain.
That get's us all caught up for now. Oh, I forgot one thing. On Friday night while I was watching the BYU football game my phone randomly rebooted... and got stuck in the boot loader and never booted again... sigh. The screen was stuck on, so surprisingly it was dead in the morning. I think the battery over-drew itself as well, because I can't seem to get it to take a charge again... so I've got a new used phone on it's way in the mail. It should be here... the day after the baby is born. So our photo situation is pretty optimal right now. Monica's phone randomly reboots all the time, and I'm back to my 8ish year old phone. I think we'll have to take a camera with us.
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