We had a few snow storms this past week! Better late than never! One of them was pretty big and kept getting worse throughout the day so Brooke's school became optional. It was optional because everyone had already gotten in in the morning, but by afternoon they didn't want to make kids come in. Brooke chose the high road and stayed home from school. I think that's her first snow day ever! All that said, the roads still weren't great in the morning. Monica had to take Winry to the eye doctor, and the trip was much longer than usual. Anyway, we didn't really get a good chance to go out until Saturday, and then I took all the kids out to play. Good thing our back yard is mostly in the shade of our house, cause the front yard was cleared. Grayson was a bit hesitant at first, but once he got going he loved it!
Grayson and I were busy playing on the floor on Monday. There were some blankets out, and he would run over to them and bury his face in them, so I started to join him. I was smart and put my hood on so he didn't pull my hair to get my head up, and we had a great time.
Grayson has learned a new direction lately, and it's backwards. He crawls backwards, he walks backwards, but he doesn't look backwards... Fortunately he's not gotten hurt yet (that I know of), and it's pretty fun to watch because he usually gets pretty excited.
Brooke continues to love reading, and loves to read to Grayson! I love that the girls love to take care of Grayson so much, and love to play with him too. Also, Grayson didn't like stories and reading very much even a few months ago, but he LOVES books now. If he sees one he almost always brings it over to hand to someone so they can read it to him.
I had to go into work on Thursday so my computer could be updated. They needed me on site for the update for some reason, and it was a long one. It took about 3 and a half hours in total to get it done, and that whole time they were using and rebooting my computer, so I couldn't use it. I was going to bring my laptop so I'd have something to do while I waited, but managed to forget it. Well, the dock in the radiation drop-in desk is a USB C dock, so I figured I'd give my phone a try and it worked! My phone has a "desk top" mode for when it's plugged into an external display, and the mouse and keyboard worked too. Not exactly the setup I was going for, but at least I was able to get some stuff done on my phone while I waited.
Back to Saturday and we're out in the snow. It snowed at least twice this past week. Grayson isn't exactly at a stage where he can play on his own or be left alone in the snow. He doesn't move great in his snow clothes, so if he tipped over face down... .well that would be bad. So I had to keep close to him. The girls still had a fun time, and when I couldn't, they pulled each other around in the sleds. Also, it was cold enough and powdery enough that we couldn't make snow balls or snow men. The girls had fun sledding and making snow angels.
I took Grayson over to the snow table to see if he'd like it as much frozen as thawed. Good news, he did! Specifically he really liked rocking one of these waterfall toys back and forth. Eventually we started to get cold and came in for hot chocolate. I was really glad to see that Grayson still felt warm everywhere, even his hands which were in the snow in what I thought were rather thin mittens.
Saturday afternoon I finished a golf platform I've been working on. My Optishot is great, but it just sits on the ground which makes me worried about hitting it really hard. Now I've got a platform the same height that it sinks into, so it's much less nerve racking to use! I've also been working on some custom software for it, but I'll talk about it more later. Anyway, last night I got my golf setup together to give it a try, and Monica even joined me. We had a great time, and Monica really enjoyed getting back to the links! We didn't have a lot of time, so we'll have to play some more this upcoming week.
Alright, that's all my cool news for now. Till next week!
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