Bed Upgrade

Oh boy, this looks like trouble!  Grayson upgraded to a bed yesterday.  Grayson had been waking up a lot at night recently (and I mean a LOT), and we were trying to figure out things we could do to help him sleep better.  One thought was to put him in a bed he can just get out of... that makes sense, right?  Seems like it worked last night as he slept all night long.  It probably didn't hurt that he took advantage of being able to get out to NOT take a nap yesterday, and instead just played around in his room.  He was good for both his nap and bedtime though, so hopefully this helps him sleep better.

Monica uses this app called one second every day.  The idea behind it is you fill in every day with a picture or one second video clip, and then you get a month video each month.  She's been making them for quite a while, and when I saw the one for December today I wanted to share it, so here it is!

Grayson loves to climb all over me when he gets the chance.  I think one of his favorite games to play is I just lay on the floor.  He loves a good leg hole to slip through as well.  Just calming down for bed.

Sunday night my sisters were still here, and we were up playing games.  We were trying to make the most of their last night here, and while we were playing I commented that I could see some flashing lights off a neighbors window, and thought maybe someone got pulled over or something.  We heard some booms and figured it was random fireworks, cause that does happen in our neighborhood, and then about a half hour later, right after a loud boom, the power went out...  Upon further investigation it turns out a car coming down the main road went off into the power box.  Our neighbor said they actually took out a power line too, and a few cars got caught in the power line.  Oh, and then the car and power box caught fire.  All in all, a big mess.  Fortunately for us, since it was all on the other side of the street our power was just out while they figured out what all to turn off so they could put out the fire.  There's a tent over the box now and they've been working on it all week, so I'm guessing the fire really messed things up in the end.

My sisters left on Monday afternoon, and fortunately that was a no school day.  The kids had a wonderful time playing in the morning.  My sisters brought stuff out to do foot soaks, and all the kids loved that.  I really like Grayson in his footies using a stool.  The important thing is that he's having fun with his sisters and aunts.

On Tuesday my mom had surgery to replace the battery in her pacemaker.  Well, when they got in, they looked up the serial number and it turns out her pacemaker was recalled... so they ended up replacing the whole thing!  I'm glad that her pacemaker never had issues, or that she never had an issue where it was needed!  She's doing well and recovering great.

Friday was an off day for me, and I took Winry to the museum in the morning.  I don't remember why, but I know we talked about it way back in like December and picked this day.  We had a good time, and with it just being the two of us we got to do basically everything.  In the picture below there was a thing were you collected "fuel" balls and then you filled the tank, pushed a button and a fire turned on.  Winry enjoyed it so we did it a few times.

Brooke really wanted to go play in the snow, so as soon as she got home from school we headed into the backyard.  We just sledded and snow skated, but we all had a great time till we headed in for dinner.

Both the girls really like the snow skate, and Brooke told me that she wants her own or a snowboard for her birthday.  Hopefully we remember that far out.

Saturday morning we went to a new-ish pastry shop in town called Poulette.  Brooke has really been wanting to go.  We got probably more stuff than we should have, and then devoured it all.  It was all very good.

As mentioned, Grayson got a new bed on Saturday.  We took out the crib and put in the house bed I made for Brooke all those years back.  This is the first time in almost 8 years that we haven't had a crib set up in this room.  That's pretty crazy.

Winry had team pictures at basketball.  She continues to love it.  This past week they worked on defense for the first time, plus all the things they've worked on in the past.  During the scrimmage Winry even got the ball and took a shot!

Here's Grayson after he fell asleep last night.  He basically chose to sleep so that he might fall out of his bed at any moment...  Everything still worked out.

That's everything for now.  Have a wonderful week.