Christmas continues to be upon us, and it's GREAT! We've had a fun week, which included both of my work Christmas parties. The children's Christmas party was on Wednesday, and was as terrific as ever! They've actually done a sign up for pictures with Santa, and it staggers people arriving and there's no longer a huge line for pictures! Thanks COVID, some of your after effects are great. Anyway, the kids were so excited to see Santa, and Grayson even went straight up to him, which is a turn around from last week. My work gets a present for each kid as well, and they were all very excited about that. Grayson got a stuffed dinosaur, Winry got a toy bird that tweets and records your voice and plays it back, and Brooke got a design your own water bottle with a bunch of gem stickers. We had dinner there too, and all in all it was a fun night.
Earlier in the week our new nightstands and bed frame came. Grayson helped Monica put together the nightstands, and then after dinner I put together the bed frame. We don't have any final pictures of our room, but our new bed has storage drawers under it, so we were also able to get a bunch of stuff put in there.
On Tuesday, I believe, the girls made paper snowflakes. Brooke also woke up a little sick on Tuesday and stayed home Tuesday and Wednesday. Anyway, I think this is the first time the girls have made their own snowflakes, and they did great. They both made several as they had people they wanted to give them too.
And here's Brooke calling it in sick. I will admit, she seemed fine in the morning, but she spent basically the whole afternoon laying on the couch and did end up with a fever, so in the end I'm glad she stayed home.
Grayson is such a stinker sometimes. This is a perfect example, and this one bothers me quite a bit. Whenever he gets the chance he LOVES to dump Jelly's food into her water bowl... grrrr... So we have to keep him closed out of our room all the time.
Jelly comes and naps with me during the work day most days still. It's unique to see her crossing her legs though. Also, one day she stayed down there sleeping until like 9:30 at night! I had to go get her before I went to bed because we don't leave her in the basement at night, especially because the door gets sucked shut when the air turns on.
At dinner on... a night this week. Probably Thursday, we had a CRUNCH off! Brooke was crunching her cucumber as loud as she could, and Winry came in to challenge her with a carrot. I'll let you be the judge of who's loudest.
And Grayson had some tea! That boy likes it HOT!
Friday was my off day, and after Brooke went to school we all went grocery shopping together. The kids were really good, so we rewarded them by heading to Costco and letting them play some NFL Blitz! Winry definitely doesn't understand how to play, but she was having a blast.
Grayson got his hair cut, and to help him sit still we got out the old clip in high chair, and gave him a sucker to keep him still...er... The haircut went pretty well, except that I had to keep washing hair off his sucker! He finished his sucker after, and even found a handy holder.
Friday night we had family movie night, and watched A Charlie Brown Christmas. Grayson snuggled up with Brooke on the couch to enjoy the show. I'm glad our kids all get along so well together and love each other so much.
Saturday we got out my old Teepee! My mom made this for me for Christmas, and I got it sometime around when I was Brooke's age. I don't remember if I was 6 or 7, but right in there.
I took the kids out to a park Saturday morning. It was... somewhat warm, and we had a good time. We spent a lot of our time on the swings, and the girls eventually started getting crazy.
Saturday night was my work Christmas party. Instead of having it somewhere interesting, they just had it at an event center, and it was... not great... The food wasn't quite out when we got there, and they had a lot of stations. It was a serve yourself, "standing dinner" event. After wandering around and trying things we ended up leaving because... well... there just wasn't anything to do. We stopped at Pinkberry on the way home because 7:30 at night was apparently still too early to get desserts out. We don't have a better picture than this, but look, there's a person sitting on that chandelier behind us.
And today the girls sang in church. It's always so much fun to get to hear the primary sing!
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