We had a warm weather week, and so we were out in the yard quite a bit. Grayson especially loves to go out in the backyard lately. The girls like to play over with the neighbors, and they came over to our backyard this past week as well. They all ended up in the trampoline. It's probably good they weren't jumping, cause I'm sure the 4 together were more than that trampoline is meant to handle.
Grayson continues to love going on walks, and he really loves pine trees. I don't know why evergreens specifically, but he always points at them as you walk down the street, and if there's one close enough he loves to poke them! We've got a little pine tree growing in our back yard right now, and Grayson loves giving it attention. He always goes and checks on it when we play out there and gives it a few friendly pats and pokes. I got a picture today when we were playing in the snow, but I'm planning to save it for next week.
Grayson loves to find toys to carry around outside. He currently loves cups and balls. I gave him some of these little balls, and I didn't think about it but I gave him three so he could have a color choice. After watching him try to hold all three at the same time for a little I got him a bucket so he could carry them all around. This lead to Easter egg hunting practice, so at least we're preparing!
Jelly has started taking an afternoon nap in Brooke's bed most days to Brooke's delight! Whenever Brooke gets into bed she tries to be very careful so as to not disturb Jelly. It's to no avail. No matter how relaxed Jelly looks, once the lights are off and the noise maker is on she knows what time it is and always gets up and leaves during songs. But Brooke is still very happy to see Jelly in her bed at night.
Brooke has started up cooking again! She can make scrambled eggs all on her own! She helped Monica make dinner tonight as well. And when I say helped I mean with the cooking, not like how I helped by laying on the floor and letting Grayson climb all over me and drop books on me.
This picture is really about Winry dressing herself. She wore her homemade Halloween shirt, running shorts, and her Frozen Elsa/Anna heels. All great choices honestly. She was also showing off her twirls for Monica that day as well.
Grayson enjoyed some time in the swing this past week. He has really been loving exploring the yard, so swing time mostly means we need him more contained for some reason, like when we were cooking pizza in the backyard. He still loves it though. Speaking of exploring, our back patio is an inch or two above the lawn in some places, and Grayson has been learning how to step down from it. Currently that means taking a huge step up, and then falling off, but having the drop be fortunately small enough that he can catch himself by running forward.
Here's Winry's big return to the trampoline. She was showing me how high she could jump, as well as her best trick, which is jumping up and landing on her bum (though catching herself with her legs on the way down still).
I have no clue where the sunglasses came from, but Grayson actually loved wearing them. He had them on all afternoon! Any other time I've tried putting some on him he always pulls them off right away. Don't know what it is about the tigers, but they're a hit!
I don't remember if I mentioned this, but SEAKR was bought by Raytheon sometime around the end of last year. There have been a few "congratulation" type events since then, and there was another this past week. They gave us all a free shirt and they had gelato popsicles! They were quite good, and I happened to have to be in that day anyway, so I just had to walk to the building next door to pick it up.
I put Grayson in the trampoline one day. I really thought it would be a bigger hit than it was. Monica is pretty sure that Grayson one time, purely accidentally, jumped. Like, actually got his feet off the ground. And he spent most of the rest of that day trying to do it again and we watched him do so many squats. So I figured he'd be all about the trampoline... but he wasn't. He bounced a little, but mostly just wanted to get out.
Because outside there were cups, and even better, balls! And Grayson wanted to thrown down a slam dunk! He took it to the hoop like slam, even Aaron Carter screamed out JAM!
Grayson has been doing much better at meal times. Tonight he even ate a bunch of green beans and corn chowder, and he was willing to try out a veggie straw for snack time. But this post isn't about today, it's about the day Monica PLAYED with him instead of feeding him! Typical mom...
This is a very important picture. The reason why is because it comes with a story I've really been wanting to tell (and maybe have...). At Winry's 4 year check up, Monica told the doctor she'd been having headaches (every morning when she woke up she said her head hurt and then would usually also complain about it multiple times throughout the day) and the doctor said the first thing is to try to help her drink more. So we've been letting her have some lemonade drink mix each day to help her drink more, and we also put in an electrolyte mix to try to help with the hydration as well. It's been working great, but the important part of this all is that now, every day, Winry asks us for her "electric light" drink! I LOVE IT! And we're so glad that her headaches are gone!
On Saturday the girls cleaned the bathroom as that's one of their weekly chores. They have a split where they both do different parts, and Winry cleaned the tub this past week. After wiping down the tub she sat down and started cleaning all the toys. I told her she didn't have to, but it's probably not a bad thing that she did! I even called her down for snack time and she told me to wait cause she wasn't finished!
Shortly after doing Saturday morning chores, the next door neighbor, Aurelia came over. Her parents had something going on, so she came over so I could watch her (Monica had a relief society thing, and then a haircut, so she was out for the day). The girls had a great time playing with her all morning and into the afternoon. Once Grayson went down for his nap I was completely free to get all kinds of things done around the house. Everyone had a great time until she eventually went back home.
That afternoon when Monica got home I headed out for a run, and Monica took the girls to play with puppies! It turned out to not be the most magical trip, but from a kids-eye view it was fantastic! The girls have been telling me how fun it was to see and play with the puppies. Brooke sat down and the puppies climbed all over her. Monica said Grayson even pet/patted/poked them, and they didn't mind as much as Jelly. When everyone got home all their clothes went straight into the washing machine because Monica was having BAD allergies!
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