Cousin Visit!

Hello and happy day!  This past week Andrew and Maren came to visit for a day and a half!  I guess there was a flood at their school, so everything was remote (look's like a pandemic stepped in and helped them be prepared there!).  There was also a big snow storm predicted for Wednesday night, so seminary was a call as well!  It was the perfect "storm," and so they came down to visit/help with the kids.  It was a lot of fun to have them here, and honestly I felt a bit bad, because they would be in school calls all day and trying to get homework done and there were Brooke and Winry, waiting to play at every available moment!  Andrew is a super baby lover and held Grayson basically all day long.  Everyone had a great time, and everyone was able to get all of the stuff they needed done (kids did school, I worked, Monica napped....(Note from Monica...ha, I wish I napped!).  Here's Andrew playing the marble run (to the extreme!) with the girls!  I somehow didn't get a picture of Maren... sorry Maren!  Maybe next time.

On Monday Monica enjoyed the warm weather we started the week with by taking everyone on a walk.  Brooke even helped push the stroller. This was Grayson's first time going in the stroller without his car seat!

I also remembered on Monday to get a picture of the new kitty alarm clock.  Here it is when it's sleep time.  The clock stays red all night (starting at 7 pm, which is now our goal of when to be ready for bed by since kitty is going to sleep) and turns green at 6:30 am to let the kids know they can get up and come out of their room.  Today they even both slept passed green, and Winry came out at 6:40.  She also woke Brooke up because the cat was awake, so they both HAD to get up...

On Tuesday Monica took the girls to the park.  The one they went to even has low swings, so Brooke could swing herself!  Grayson went in the swing for the very first time, and Brooke had a lot of fun pushing him!

We all went for a walk to the park on Wednesday, and Brooke rode her bike!  We're going to have to keep up with that plan as we don't want a triple stroller!  Anyway, Brooke did great and rode all the way out on her own.  After playing for a while we headed back home.  We came back a different way and ended up going over some ice, so I helped the girls to make sure they didn't fall.  Shortly after we got past the ice Brooke took a turn a little wide and her training wheel went off the sidewalk and she tipped, luckily it was onto grass!  She was okay, but shaken.  She rode in the stroller the rest of the way home, and I put Winry on the bike and pulled her along.

Here's a cute picture of Grayson.  I really like the heart up on the wall behind his head.

I put Grayson down for bed one night.  He enjoyed reading the dinosaur tails book with me, and then we had a tickle fight (spoiler, I won).

This was a bit of a slow week.  There were a few things I missed pictures of, like Maren's presence, or the fact that we got like 8 inches of snow Wednesday night and went and played in the backyard Thursday afternoon.  I feel like the adventures have slowed down recently, but sometimes it's nice to have a break.  Unfortunately, it hasn't felt like a break lately.  Tell ya what, I'll try to do better at taking pictures next week!  Have a great week!