This past Thursday the kids had grandparents day at school, and my dad was able to make it out! He got to visit their school, have "brunch" with them, and go see their classrooms. Everyone had a great time, but it was strictly no parents, so I don't have a lot of details. Thanks for coming dad! It means a lot to the girls.
This past week was Brooke's last week of soccer. It was actually already supposed to be over, but there were enough rainy days that they gave them a make up game on Saturday, so her coach had practice on Monday as well. I caught her doing dribbling drills before I got swept away to the playground for the rest of practice. I can't wait for "next time" when our kids do sports and I actually get to watch them.
Grayson has been accompanying me to pick up the girls from school as we don't have another adult around that's allowed to get him up if he wakes up from his nap. It's okay, he's riding in style in his car and eating snacks, so he's always in a great mood!
Winry's preschool had a special fireman/firetruck day. A firetruck came over between preschool classes for all the kids to see as it was fire safety week. We also saw Brooke heading in from lunch recess as we got there, so that was cool. Anyway, a fireman put on all his stuff so the kids could see it and not think it was scary, and then they were going to let the kids see the truck and stuff, and I don't even know what all, because right then they got a call and had to book it out of there. Fortunately they did drive down the school road a bit before turning on the siren, but it was pretty crazy!
On Thursday, after grandparents day and school, we headed to Tyson and Tina's house. This was both for Grandpa drop off, and for dinner! I received the opportunity to get on their roof to get Luke's toy down, and despite hating heights I always seem to jump at the opportunity to climb onto a roof with a shallow slope.
Thursday night Monica's friends all came into town for a girls weekend trip. Friday morning I took the kids to the library, and Grayson asked everyone to hold his hands while he walked in! We had a good time at the library and found some great books. Brooke has already read 2 of the chapter books she got, and they were both parts of new series that she really liked. That girl is a reading machine!
Later in the day I finished up the leaf pile, and we all headed out for some jumping. I did take Grayson in the pile once with me, but he really didn't seem to be a fan. He enjoyed watching his sisters, but spent more time looking at the garden... which is always worrisome.
It seems everyone loves to play in the basement, and I'm not sure why everything is so much more fun down there. Anyway, Grayson has really enjoyed this flowers lately, and he loves to stack them all. He doesn't use the green stem pieces, but does make pretty good flower towers.
Off in Breckenridge it's dinner time! If Monica wants to talk about her trip when she reads this, I assume she'll put it here: Some of my best friends ever came out and we went on a trip to the mountains! We took it reeeal easy since it still hasn't been that long since my surgery. But it was so great to get together and catch up. It had been 3+ years since we'd all seen each other!
Also, they went on a "hike" and found the Breckenridge troll!
Back at home we were well on our way to the moon. I saw, and set up the kids play tent. It's got space pictures all over on it, so of course it was a rocket and they went to the moon. They had a good time on the moon napping and... talking... and whatever else you do on the moon. I've never been.
Saturday afternoon was Brooke's final soccer game. I made the kids watch for a little at the start of the game, and then come back in the second half to watch some more. Brooke did so great! I wish my phone was out at the start because she had a great defensive stop where she got the ball and kicked it back down the field to her team mate. She had a lot of fun, and I'm so glad she did. She said she'd love to play again, so that's great news too.
After, we headed to the team party at Fuzzy Tacos. We HAD to go since it was the last game, and it was also a great place to have dinner! A little early, but I take what I can get. Brooke sat with her teammates and coach while she ate, and Winry joined her a little later when the bench didn't fill up next to Brooke. Her coach told me he thinks Brooke was the most improved player on the team through the season.
Grayson just wants to hang on everything lately. He'll walk into the kitchen pull out some draws, and then hang on them. He also hung from the edge of the table at Fuzzy's. He was really enjoying this for quite a while. Eventually he fell off, which didn't end up being the deterrent you might think until he fell off AGAIN and hit his head on the floor. Fortunately he didn't hit very hard because he fell on his bottom first.
After dinner we headed to Kilwin's to get some ice cream, again, to celebrate the season. Then we went to a park until sunset to let the kids burn off all their sugar energy. Good news, it worked! They slept SOOO well!
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