Oh my just look at this cute little buddy! It's crazy to think that Grayson is already 2 years old! We had a good week, and a great birthday weekend. Grayson was really happy and a lot of fun! He can be pretty crazy and high energy, but he loves to be silly and really brings a great energy to our home. He's been such a joy to have around, and always keeps us on our toes! Birthday cakes included! If you don't watch the video, he grabbed his candle when we said to blow it out, but fortunately didn't seem to get hurt at all.
On Monday I took the kids to the park in the morning. Brooke has been working really hard on the monkey bars, and she made it all the way across for the first time! She went across three times that morning.
In the afternoon I took Grayson on an adventure walk. Over by the creek there are some dirt trails that wind through the plants, and I thought he'd really love to go walk around through it. While I was right about that, we saw the creek at one point, and all I heard about after that was how he wanted to go climb in the creek and go swimming. It was a bit cold, and we were a bit in normal clothing...
So we went to the pool on Tuesday! All of the kids had a really great time swimming. Grayson stayed in the shallow end by these water things the whole time, and Winry went down the slide on the playground basically the whole time (about 90 minutes straight). Brooke was swimming around all over the place, and I don't really know what she did the whole time.
That afternoon Grayson and I went on another adventure walk. He's really been loving walks lately. We stopped by the pig that we found the day before. I told him not to touch it, but he did bend in real close to say "hi."
On Wednesday Niki came out. We picked her up in the morning, and the kids had had so much fun the day before that we went swimming again! On Thursday we headed to the zoo. It was a pretty good animal sighting day, and we had a lot of fun. We got to ride the carousel.
And we even found an escaped big foot! The kids really liked him, and all gave high fives. It was really cute, and Niki got a video! Only, we realized later that she actually started the video when she thought she stopped it, so instead we ended up with a 3 minute video of us walking around the zoo... I won't include it.
Monica has been working on Halloween costumes and finished Brooke's and Winry's this week. We're Grinch theme, and Brooke is Cindy Lou Who, and Winry is the Christmas tree. I'll be the Grinch, and Grayson will be Max, his dog. Monica will round things out as a snow flake.
And.... apparently that was all we recorded outside Grayson's birthday... We let him open presents after breakfast on Friday. He's suddenly really fallen in love with Bluey, and wanted a Bluey birthday party. As such, his presents ended up Bluey themed. He got some toys, books, and shirts for it.
Speaking of books, there's no better place to get them out than the middle of the floor in the living room. We know how to have a good time.
For Grayson's birthday we went to Monkey Bizness in the morning. It's essentially an indoor playground. They had lots of stuff, some playgrounds, some inflatables, kid cars, you name it. Just all kinds of kids stuff, and everyone had a great time.
Here's Brooke climbing up this... volcano or something.
And the kids really wanted me to come in the bounce house with them, so I went in and sat on the side to try to be out of the way, though I did bounce a little with everyone.
Niki was there with us too! She came out on Wednesday to help out for a few days.. It's fall break this week, so we got to spend quite a bit of time together. Here's Niki with the kids just before we left.
When we got home I put Grayson down for a nap, and then when he woke up we headed out for an adventure. He's really loved going for walks this week, and really loves walking in the flood path and along the dirt paths by our house. He really wanted to see the pig, but it was gone!
There are a bunch of places with rocks set in cement, and he loves to walk from rock to rock with my help.
For dinner we had Spice Kitchen because he loves their Chicken Tikka Masala. He ate some, but apparently got a piece of chicken he didn't like or something...
and ended up eating a pouch! It was also family movie night on Grayson's birthday, so he got to pick what we watched and of course picked Bluey. He sometimes pays attention, and sometimes looks for alternate activities, like riding a cat. We also had some balloons out all day. Mostly the kids just really like balloons, but now of course they have to play keepy uppy.
After a few episodes, we had cake and ice cream, and Grayson quickly realized that silverware was overrated.
But he was having a fantastic time making everyone laugh, including himself!
Grayson and I did a little Bluey dancing before I took him up for bedtime. He really seemed to enjoy it.
After Grayson went to bed, the girls did some Halloween nails with Niki. She mailed these out a while ago, and the girls have been really excited to put them on. When she came out she brought some for herself as well.
The girls both really love their nails. They were stick on, so we did that and left it to see how long they would last. I believe we've put a few back on with nail glue at this point in time, so they lasted a day or two.
Saturday was Grayson's birthday party. We were getting decorations ready and that included a Bluey table cloth. When he saw it go on the table he just had to climb on, and then laid on the table for at least a half hour until his party started!
The party was a lot of fun. We had lunch, and then a piñata. I think Grayson was holding back when he took his swings because he's pretty good friends with the sun piñata.
The kids played in our leaf pile before we opened presents in the back yard.
And came in for cupcakes! We did a little candle blow out coaching before singing happy birthday this time, and he did a great job blowing out his candle. No hands involved.
And here's everyone who came in front of a Bluey banner that the Cammacks brought with them!
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