Whoa! Where has the time gone! Winry is already 4 years old! She had a GREAT birthday this past week (pretend I wrote this on time). Here we all are with her birthday banner! She wanted a Pokemon themed birthday, and the girls even colored a bunch of pictures to help the theme. We still need to reschedule her party, hopefully for sometime soon! This was the best picture of all of us, Grayson was being a bit distracting, so when I got him to look, one of the girls was always distracted. Better to have the birthday girl!
We opened presents first thing on Winry's birthday. She was SO excited! Just look how excited she is to get new underwear! She loved her presents, though I did confuse her as she opened a whisk from me. The real present is that I am going to take her to do a cooking class together, but she's really clung to that whisk and often asks if she can use her whisk to help with cooking.
During the day, Winry basically just played with her new TOTS toys. I even asked if she wanted to go on my run with me because she loves to ride along in the stroller, but she said no, she wanted to play with TOTS. As I thought about it, it made me happy. Being her birthday we tried to let her do something special, and in the end she mostly did what she does every day, which made me realize that Winry is living her best life every day!
Winry really wanted to go ice skating for her birthday, so we had dinner on the early side so we could get to the library right when the rink opened. Monica took one for the team and sat out with Grayson, but they had a great time together. Grayson loved to watch the fires.
More than that, Grayson loved to MOVE! He kept walking back and forth along the side of the rink and was very happy every time I came by.
The girls had a great time skating. Most of the time I was helping Winry to skate around, but there were a few times she tried it on her own! We all had a lot of fun skating, and even stayed later than we were supposed to.
We hustled home for some cake and ice cream! Of course we sang happy birthday, and we even had to relight the candles and sing it a second time because Winry forgot to make a wish! She remembered the second time, so we didn't have to keep singing. After some cake and ice cream it was off to bed.
Monica left for a girls weekend on Thursday, and I needed the stroller to make picking up Brooke easier. Unfortunately, Monica left me with a little present... No wonder the wheel was flat! I was able to patch it and it worked great for us as we went to pick up Brooke.
That afternoon we went to the park. The girls had a great time on the playground, and I followed Grayson as he walked around. The plan was to stay until dinner, but Winry had to go to the bathroom so we had to leave like 10 minutes early. It ended up being a great time to leave as things took a little longer when we got home.
On Friday, Brooke actually had a remote learning day, which means she did school at home. She had a few worksheets she brought home, so I printed a few for Winry to do as well. They had a great time doing their homework together.
Grayson continues to be a great feeder/eater. On Friday he noticed that the food he drops or spits out typically falls into his bib. He noticed this once he ran out of food, and went in for seconds!
Friday afternoon we picked up my sister, Jerusha, from the airport! The rest of the day was mostly excitement about Jerusha's arrival. On Saturday morning we headed out to go bowling! It's been quite a while, but the girls had a great time again. Brooke took a stab at throwing the ball by herself, and the first throw didn't go great... but the second attempt made it down the lane! Winry used a ball... pusher ramp (Brooke did too most of the time).
Grayson did NOT want to be set down, so I had to hold him the whole time we were there. It was not my finest bowling, but to be fair it was like I was holding three bowling balls as I approached to to make my throw.
And we don't want to forget Jerusha, who was smashing up the lanes! Not an impressive throw, but...
She did win. It was a pretty close game, and almost everyone got a strike too! Most importantly, I got a strike!... I mean, we all had fun!
The girls love to play in the arcade after bowling, and this time they played Mario Kart together! They had a lot of fun. They spent most of the race in the back swapping back and forth between who was 5th and who was 6th.
But then in the home stretch Brooke took off and took first! Winry also did some good catching up and ended up in third, which overall means their team won!
Meanwhile, Monica was at the beach, not even understanding how much fun we were having! Monica headed to San Diego with her friends that she does a writers group with. She had a great time, though she stayed up too late every night (she agrees with me). Anyway, I'll let her add any details of her trip she wants to here: We walked in the sand and ocean, saw tide pools, went to the temple, ate delicious food, laughed, relaxed, and had a great time!
On Sunday we had to do our Nailed It projects for my family call. We were supposed to make a snowman, so we got out the ol' ice shaver and made some snow! After having so many bowling pictures I figured I'd combine all the snowman pictures. I didn't put my picture of me with my snowman cause you couldn't tell how big it's nose was in that picture! If you use a snow cone maker to get snow for your snow man, there's really only one fitting end for the snow man... That's right, we snowconed them! Also, the eyes were chocolate chips, so that was delicious too!
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