Howdy howdy all and all! And Merry Christmas in this upcoming week! This is my last chance to wish everyone a Merry Christmas before the day arrives! Are we excited? Yes we are. Why? Because Niki is coming, which will provide us with a 3rd back to break holding Grayson all day... But really, we've been holding him a LOT lately. He had a doctors appointment on Thursday and has been a bit of a grump since. We've never caught him with a fever, but he's a lot more fussy than usual, so hopefully that goes away soon. In other news, here is our yearly family picture in front of the Christmas tree! This was the best one, and it actually turned out GREAT!!
On Monday, the girls and I went to play in the snow again. The girls had gotten ready without me, and so I just headed out after putting a jacket on. Grayson also came out to play with us. I wrapped him up in some blankets, and he snuggled down and had a nice little vent hole for his face. Everyone stayed warm, and we had fun playing in the snow together.
On Wednesday, Winry had her winter showcase! It was a lot of fun to watch. I called in on my phone while I was there, and Monica and Brooke called in from home. Also, many of you reading this called in too! Thank you so much for supporting our kids! It means a lot to Monica and me, but more importantly, it means a lot to the girls! Anyway, her class was super fun to watch, and I took a few screen recordings. Monica tried to get some good pictures of the TV, but there was a really bad glare from the sun coming in a window without blinds at that time of day, so I decided to put up my screen recordings instead. Here is one of their... technical showcase I guess you could call it. They didn't actually prepare a dance for this, which is kind of sad. Brooke did when she was this age, but it's different teachers, and the class attendance has also been really spotty in Winry's class, I'm guessing likely due to COVID things. Anyway, they also did sleeping bunnies, which Winry LOVES! We listen to that at home too. They listened to a version with lots of animals, not just bunnies, which you will notice throughout the video. I'm really proud of Winry. She loves dance, and she works so hard at it. She always listens to her teacher and does what she's asked. It's actually funny, the first time Monica showed me a video of Winry in dance class I said "oh, she didn't want to run around and do the thing with all the other kids?" And Monica said, "No, none of them are supposed to be running around, they're all supposed to be doing what Winry is doing!" She is great!
Here is Grayson, sleeping peacefully. Very peacefully. How peacefully? Pre-vaccine peacefully... Oh, "these were days never to be forgotten; to sit under [Grayson]..."
Oh... Monica took that picture during dance class! That's why she couldn't move to get less glare in her pictures... How do I know? Because here's Winry with her new ornament!! After each girls winter showcase they got to go to the Christmas tree at E&E and pick an ornament. We need to make some kind of label or something for them so we don't forget what they're from.
The girls have been loving Legos this past week. I got down my big box of Legos, and they spent the first two days playing with the bag of mini figures and the bag of stuff from our Lego Christmas advent calendar from a few years ago. Eventually Brooke found my bag of instruction manuals and asked if we could build something, so we dug through all of the Legos to find all the pieces we needed to make a few sets. The girls each built their own. Brooke all on her own, Winry I had to help a few times, and had to push a few pieces together for her too. Look at that! Lego masters! They loved it, and I loved playing with them. I left them together for a few days before cleaning them up so they could have time to play. We'll definitely have to get into the box of Legos again soon!
This morning (Sunday morning) I got on Facebook to post the elder's quorum email. While I was on I saw I had a new friend request or something, so I click on it, and it said I had 101 requests... As you can tell I handle those often. Anyway, I started scrolling down the page and adding people I knew. I was reading names to Monica, and a LOT of them were wives in our ward. People that were Monica's friends, etc. Anyway, after "confirming" a bunch of them I realized that I was actually in suggested friends, and instead sent a friends request to somewhere around 15 to 20 women in the ward... Turns out only the first person in that list was a friends request, and then there was a button to see the rest... Thanks Facebook... thanks.
Here's a picture of the girls during church today. We've been trying to get back to church like activities while we join our weekly call. We got a little out of the habit while we didn't have church, and we've been working hard to get back to reverence during church. They did a good job drawing and being quiet. Hopefully they were paying attention too. The sacrament was not so good. I don't remember what the huge reverence breaker was, but it was quite the distraction. Maybe Monica will fill it in when she reads over this. (Winry was holding baby Jesus from our nativity- I thought it might help her think of Jesus- but instead she started moving him all around saying Baby Jesus was swimming....it almost worked)
At lunch time we had sandwiches. Winry rocked hers while saying "Rock the Charmander, rock the Charmander." It's from a yoga video (though they're not eating a sandwich in the video... that was just Winry). I've never seen it, but I've heard the kids say it a bunch before.
Tonight I was holding Grayson, and Monica said it was just too cute not to capture. Also, something happened while I was holding him and my left wrist is KILLING me right now! I'll maybe have to tape it again tomorrow or something... we'll see.
First, it made me laugh pretty hard when you wrote about Facebook. 😂
ReplyDeleteAnd Grayson is a cutie and I know Niki is so excited to come and will snuggle him all he wants... until the diaper needs changing.