Well, Grayson continues to love closing himself in things, and this week's adventure was the fridge! He really likes to sit on the lip of the fridge, and it is a pretty appropriate height for a seat, but I don't really love the fridge being left wide open. Well, this week he was trying to have fridge time, but ALSO close the door so the cold didn't get out. What a crazy man!
Last Sunday Grayson was a bit sick, so I stayed home with him, and he really wanted to go on a walk around the neighborhood. There's this bench next to the sidewalk. I know there's a school bus stop here, so I'm guessing someone who waited for the bus every day put the bench here and it's just been there since. It's right next to one of the large community mailboxes we have in our neighborhood, so it's not in anyone's yard, just chilling there for general use. Grayson gave it a try and loved it. While we were out I got a text from Monica, who noticed my name was on the program. I was supposed to speak at church! I may be mis-remembering the conversation I had, but I don't remember being given a specific date, or else I would have been there... and had a talk. Either way, of all the weeks to miss church, this was not a bad choice :).
A friend at church gave Monica a picker-upper to help her out around the house since it's very difficult to bend over currently. It's been all the rage since. Brooke used it to help Grayson get his puzzle done Sunday afternoon.
Monday afternoon I took all the kids to Brooke's soccer practice, and Grayson and Winry ran over to play on the playground. It worked out pretty well, though I would have liked to see some of Brooke's practice. Anyway, right next to the playground was a really big caterpillar on the sidewalk. We followed it for a little bit, and then gave it a break. The kids kept coming back to see it again though. Grayson ended up swinging for 15+ minutes at one point, and we never found it again.
Monica's back/leg have been hurting more, so I've been taking Winry to preschool and picking the kids up at the end of the day. If we get to drop off a little early, or Winry usually gets out a few minutes before Brooke, Winry loves to play on the preschool playground. One day when I was picking her up she just started "surfing" down the slide!
At playgroup on Thursday morning Grayson got stung by a wasp. Monica said he didn't cry at all, but she saw a wasp flying away from him and he was waving it away, and then he was a little grumpy. Anyway, he got a red welt on the side of his face, and I don't know that it even lasted until bedtime that night. So possibly it wasn't too bad, but that's our first kid to be stung by a wasp.
Grayson came to drop Winry off at preschool, and he really wanted to walk down the stairs (we could have parked closer to the door). He held Winry's hand and she helped him down.
Friday night we decided it was time to pick our watermelon. It grew a little better than the lime sized watermelon we got last year! Everyone was excited to go out and get it, and it got passed around. Grayson did what Grayson does with anything that comes out of the garden, and immediately tried to take a bite of it. He didn't like it...
We brought it in and cut it up for dinner. Much more watermelon to go around than last year.
And it turns out that once the red part was accessible, Grayson DID like watermelon. Who knew?!
I think that's everything for this week. I forgot to get my golf stuff set up and get a video to show... hopefully I'll remember soon. I actually have a video from the guy I'm working with, but I feel like I shouldn't share his video until there's an official release... I'll get there though. Gram came out today! My drive to the airport was pretty nightmarish, and everything that could go wrong did (well, we didn't get in a car accident, but we did get stopped behind one on the freeway...). Everyone's very excited to have her here helping out! Yay Gram!
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