Winry started basketball yesterday! She had a TON of fun and is really excited to go back again next week. At one point they played a monster and hero game. Most everyone was dribbling a basketball, and you had to dribble it as you moved around. Winry got to be the monster, and if she tagged someone they were frozen. The hero would tag you so you could move again. Winry LOVED being the monster! Though she did spend a lot of her time tagging her coaches... :)
We sang "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam" for our song for family home evening at Grayson's request. It was a very popular song!
Monica was doing her back exercises this week and Grayson thought it looked like great fun, so he joined her. You can tell that's a baby who isn't going to herniate a disc!
I had Friday off, and school doesn't start until next Tuesday, so we went to the children's museum on Friday. We had a lot of fun there all morning. We started off in the ball room. There are a bunch of vacuum tubes that suck the balls up into the top of different plinko type machines. There were also these ramps, which Grayson built a fort in and hunkered down.
There was a rocket area, where you could make a paper rocket and then launch it with an air launcher. I helped both Winry and Brooke make a rocket, and we all had fun launching them.
We went out into the winter area and Grayson had a great time playing with the dogs again. He even took a ride on one for a bit! I took the girls over to go sledding while Monica and Grayson took care of the dogs.
There was a also a mini Christmas tree maze, which everyone enjoyed wandering through. Grayson really loved it, which makes me think he'd love a corn maze. We'd have to be really careful though, because if he ran out of sight... it might take a LONG time to find him again.
Next to the maze there was also a fun car that the kids loved to pretend to drive. I think we did a good job seeing most of the things we missed the last time we went, and it was a really fun morning. There was a fair deal of dismay when it was time to leave.
That evening Grayson was showing off his sommersault skills on our bed. The problem is that he doesn't check if he's by the edge, and I did catch him once when he put his head right on the edge and would have flipped himself off. He also tries to do sommersaults on the recliner in his room. These usually turn into headstands against the backrest, but I did catch him once when he flipped over the arm rest... This kid is in a dangerous phase.
And back to Saturday and Winry at basketball. From my observation it looks like Winry's probably the only kid who's brand new to basketball. Everyone else seemed to be able to "drivle" a little, but Winry did a really good job working on it and improved a lot by the end. The most important thing, she had a TON of fun the whole time! I was a little worried she'd get frustrated trying to learn to dribble, but she had a big smile and was running and dancing the whole hour! I'm really excited to watch her keep learning.
And I believe that's a wrap for this week. I'll try to get Monica to read the blog more frequently than monthly in the future so these stop going out in batches. I'm hopeful we'll get all 3 of the ones I have written out today!
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