Oh boy... writing this almost a week late... and Monica still hasn't read the last one... Looks like we might have a triple feature this weekend. Last weekend the girls had their dance recital! They did so great! Here they are after with their lovely flowers! Don't worry, I've got pictures and videos later.
Grayson has had some really dry skin lately. It looks pretty rashy too, so we think it might be allergies or something. It gets itchy, and when he scratches it can look real bad, like it does below. Yikes! A note from the future, we've gotten allergy medicine and are doing prescription lotion every day, we'd already been doing regular lotion and some prescription, so the allergy medicine is really the new thing, and it's looking a lot better as of the time of writing!
When I got to the hotel for my trip I found out that I was in a "premium" room. The room was the exact same, but there was this little pile of treats in the corner. Pretty cool, but now that I know what premium means I definitely won't pay for it!
I went on several runs while I was in Texas, mostly around the Texas A&M campus. They had a pretty cool bell tower that I ran past a lot. One day I stopped by to see it and went through it, and then grabbed a picture from a ways away.
Back at home the girls were helping Monica take care of Grayson! They love holding him in his chair, especially while he's having a bottle of milk.
I called home every day, and I had the opportunity to talk to everyone, and I mean EVERYONE! I even got to say hello to Jelly! On second thought, maybe I shouldn't emphasize everyone so much, I don't believe I was ever taken over to the roly-polies.
While I was out, Grayson got sick with something. He had a runny nose, and was pretty tired. This was all around the rash, and Monica was also thinking allergy related. Anyway, some days he was pretty tired and snuggly. Monica set up an appointment for him to go to the allergist in a few weeks, so hopefully they'll be able to help us understand what's happening better. But yeah, he was actually sick this past week as well.
The good news though is that my sisters came out on Wednesday! They came early for the girls recital, and of course also helped with the kids. Both of the girls were super excited. Winry drew this picture of her and Niki, who was first to arrive. Winry even drew some awesome glasses on herself!
Meanwhile, back in Texas... We were waiting for the facility to get the beam ready for us so we could start running, and in the meantime we watched some Angry Beavers off my phone!
When we finish testing parts, they all have to be surveyed before we can take them with us to make sure they didn't get radioactive during our testing. Here are our parts being surveyed. Good news, they all passed and were okay to be taken home.
Meanwhile, back in Denver, the mushrooms were growing! These are growing out of a stump from a tree that was cut down a few years ago. Guess it's decaying now, and the fauna is taking advantage.
On my to the airport I stopped at Buc-ee's. It was a great trip. I was there for swim wear season! I got all the kids a swimsuit. I wanted to get a matching one to Grayson's, but the biggest size they had was youth large... so no dice this time. I did get myself a sweet shirt, and a lovely floral beaver shirt for Monica. I also picked up lunch here, and the sandwiches are superb! Not your typical gas station (they sell grills and smokers...)!
Back at home it was snowing. I packed for a humid week in the upper 90's in Texas, and came home to a predicted 12"-18" of snow! To be honest, I got really hot getting on the plane, and I don't think I put a jacket on until well after I got to Tyson's house (I headed there from the airport to meet up with everyone). The cold felt pretty nice after the week of heat.
Slight rewind, back in the Austin airport I stopped at Amy's ice cream and picked up this mint chocolate delight! Yum!
Friday night, as mentioned, we went to Tyson and Tina's house for Maren's birthday party and had a great night. We headed home, and Grayson went to bed around 8 pm. At around 10:30 pm he was coughing and it sounded like he had croup...We held him for a while and decided that it sounded bad enough to take him to the ER. A mere 2 hours later, at 12:30 am on Saturday, Grayson had negative tests for the flu, RSV, and COVID, and I called the doctor back in to figure out what was going on. She said she was listening for him to cough, so who knows how long his test results were back and we were waiting for nothing. He wasn't really coughing because he sitting up awake, but when he laid in his crib he would start coughing a bunch. In the end she trusted my opinion (and a nurse heard him cough when we got there and said it sounded like croup) and gave him steroids and we were cleared to head home. The worst part is that Grayson was awake the whole time. I couldn't get him to go to sleep. He was really cute though, we put him in a hospital gown (which had cats and dogs on it and he loved it!) and he kept pointing to his pajamas and sleep sack on the other side of the room and saying "jammies, sack, on." In the end we were home around 1 am and he was back to bed. Shocker, he slept in till almost 9 the next day. I think we actually had to wake him up so we wouldn't be late to the dance recital!
Winry did amazing! She knew her WHOLE dance, and from the video it looks like she was the only one in her class that did. She loved doing her dance!
Brooke had 3 dances, because she's in a combo class that does ballet, jazz and tap. It's amazing to see how much better she's gotten year after year. Here she's in the front doing a perfect... leap (I don't know ballet terms) across the stage during her ballet dance!
And here's her class in their final pose! Grayson was struggling during the recital, so Monica took him to walk around. Fortunately we were in a large high school theater, and the entire back half was empty, so there was plenty of room to walk and still watch the dance!
After the dance recital we went to Spice Kitchen to get some Tikka Masala for lunch, and after that all the girls went to the Nike clearance store. Brooke and Winry both got some cool water shoes, and my sisters got them sports bras. (Brooke has been asking for a bra for seriously 4 years) They loved them! Brooke even wore hers to church the next day!
Even after putting her shirt back on, Winry just couldn't get enough of her cool new sports bra.
That afternoon we all played some Pokemon snap together. Celeste, unfortunately, isn't in this picture, but after going through the pictures I think this is the only one we had of a group of us during my sister's visit! I really need to get better about taking pictures together when people come over... We all had a great time playing!
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