Rough Week

Well, not a lot of pictures this week, and it's been a bit rough!  ALL the kids are currently whiny and fight all the time and scream and hate listening to things, etc.  It's made for a long week, but we're at the tail end of it... the week that is.  Hopefully we're at the tail end of whatever all this sassiness is.  Anyway, there are, of course, always good moments.  Monica spends a decent bit of time laying on her stomach on our bed.  It helps her leg/back not hurt.  Quick aside on all that, her doctor wants her to get an MRI, and it hadn't gotten scheduled, so she called the place this past week and they said they never got an order to schedule one... so hopefully her MRI gets sorted quickly so we can get our full picture and figure out what we need to do to get things taken care of.  Anyway, back to laying on the bed, Winry and Grayson were in hanging out with her.  Winry had Monica's phone and took some pictures.  Grayson is a very willing snuggler!

Grayson loves to climb up on our feet/legs/knees/backs (if laying down) and bounce saying "riding a horse!"  Like, he does it EVERY time he can.  Well, at the park this week he got to ride a dino, and kept his mantra going.

And here's Grayson hanging out in a basket!  Also, it's worth stating that Winry and Grayson have become REALLY great friends since school started.  It's not that Brooke and Winry ignored Grayson before, but now that Brooke is off at school Winry wants someone to play with, and she and Grayson have been getting along great!

And speaking of Grayson, last Sunday night I was playing with him, and we were playing with Brooke's ice cream counter and shared some of the best treats we could make!

We had to get Jelly shaved again.  The fur on her back was SOOO bad.  On her under side she had some hair clumps, but they were most loose and could have been taken care of without a full shave, but all down her sides was just one huge crazy matted lump.  Anyway, we got medicine from the vet, and the groomer said she did great!  She thinks the medicine started to wear off at the end because Jelly got a little harder to shave, but it went well.

I always worry that Jelly might get cold after she's shaved.  She just looks SO much smaller, I'm sure it's a lot colder for her.  I found her laying in a sun spot this past week in the basement.  She still spends most days in the basement with me, but she hasn't been in the office as much, but instead over laying on a blanket or in this sun spot.  Maybe I should get her a sweater?

Oh my, Grayson, what a kid!!  Gotta be careful about making toast around him.  He's never climbed into a cabinet before, so I don't know if this is going to be a new thing or not, but it was really funny.  He never closed the door all the way, which is good, because the child lock would have locked him in.

Last night Monica and I wanted to watch the new Lord of the Rings show on Amazon, but sitting on the couch can be uncomfortable for Monica.  Fortunately, I recently came into possession of a projector, so we set things up off the foot of the bed.  Pretty nice!

The girls wanted to play in the splashpad this afternoon.  In fact, Brooke pulled it out and set it all up all by herself!  I still need to go out and clean it up, and it's getting dark, so maybe I should have done that before writing this...  Anyway, it's nice when the girls will do things on their own.  They had a lot of fun playing out there. The splashpad get's really slippery when it's wet, and it was also getting the slide wet, which made it super slippery, which turned the yard into a super slide!

I'm really enjoying this new write the blog on Saturday thing.  We'll see if there's a Sunday update this week.  I'm just watching the end of the BYU football game, and things went well in that regard today.  Hopefully this means we'll have a great season!  Have a great week!