Howdy, y'all! We had a pretty great week. There was Valentines day, and a doctor visit, and car smashing, and a visit from a friend! It was a bountiful week of good times! Just look at these happy faces, and the proximity! I'm really glad that they all get along so well and are great friends! And, in picture you can't even hear them fight, it's wonderful!
On Monday Monica was backing out of the garage and might have accidentally clipped the side mirror on the garage door. I say might, because no one saw it happen, we just saw the result. the base of the mirror where the motor is also popped out of it's holding, and it looked like broken clips to me, so I tried to tape the mirror into a useful position... but it's pretty useless right now.
On Valentines day Winry helped make breakfast! She loves to cook sausage for us in the morning.
We had some special pastries that we'd gotten a while back from Ballerina Farm. Side note, don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but Brooke's dream job is to be a ballerina farmer. Anyway, Monica ordered meat from them, and it also came with some pastries, so we baked them up and I'd honestly just order a package of pastries from them next time. I'm not saying the meat isn't good, I'm saying the pastries are that good. Winry's face backs me up on this one.
The girls both got heart hair for the day, and I really like how it turned out!
Also on Valentines day, I had an eye doctor appointment. I met with a double vision specialist, and it was awesome. They ran through some tests, etc. and were pretty quickly able to tell me that my left eye was drifting and the exact muscle/nerve on my eye that was the problem. They used prisms to figure out how far off things were, and that came out to... 18 degrees! So for the most part I'm able to correct for one of my eyes wanting to look 18 degrees above the other, but not always now. She said I've probably had this problem my whole life, or else she doesn't think I'd be able to cope with it so well. I got some blood work done earlier this week and it all came back looking good, and I'm heading in for an MRI this Thursday. Assuming nothing shows up there then when I go back to the eye doctor I'll start doing physical therapy, and I'll probably also get some new glasses with prism lenses for when I really need to be able to see, but am having double vision (like driving, that's been... an adventure at times lately. Sometimes you just gotta close one eye.). Anyway, it was a great appointment, and nice to have a path forward.
Wednesday at Winry's dance they did a practice dance for parents. They only had a few kids there because there was a big snow storm so they made up a dance and then invited the parents to come in and watch.
The weather finally warmed up a bit this past week, which means we were able to play outside. The backyard is half covered in a sheet of ice, so the front is a better place to play currently. The girls were playing with the hula hoop and rolling it to each other.
On Friday Brooke only had a half day of school, and I went to pick her up as it was an off Friday. When we were walking back to the car Abby (her best friend) was there with us! It's the first time we've ended up right together on the walk back to the car. Anyway, she and Abby were marching all the way back.
After Grayson's nap, we tried to all go swimming as a family. There was a pretty long line to get into the pool, so we ended up playing out on the playground instead. I was NOT properly dressed for the occasion, but really, who was? We all had a good time none the less. At the park they also had this baby and me swing type thing, and I gave it a try with Grayson.
Saturday morning we headed to the pool right when it opened to make sure we got in this time. I tried the water slide to see if I thought the girls would like it, and after I told them about it they were unsure if they wanted to go. Maybe next time. Grayson had fun playing in the shallow end for the first little bit, but eventually his pool play turned into walking around between the pools and water slide while I followed him.
Grayson, always the team player, wanted to clean his room! Once he was fully mitted-up, he... rubbed some stuff. Hopefully the dusting mitts were picking things up, and not really dusty and putting things down.
I took Winry to basketball in the afternoon. She had a great time as always, and Brooke and I actually stood to the side of the bleachers and Brooke practiced dribbling a basketball. At basketball they played dribble freeze tag, and Winry always found herself in a very unusual position to be frozen in. I also took a video of most of their scrimmage at the end. Winry's team ended up winning, with a final score of 4-0 I believe. I'd say the game was highlighted by defensive effort.
Saturday afternoon Aurelia came to visit! Her family was in town and so she stopped by to play with the girls. They had a great time together, and it's always exciting when she comes by!
Saturday afternoon Monica finished painting the hall. As part of that, we took off the air intake vent that had gotten painted gross yellow (real color name) when the walls were painted, and repainted it white. Well, this morning (Sunday) we hadn't put the vent cover back up. It's done drying now, and we probably would have been okay putting it up last night as well. Anyway, we had an open hole in the wall...
and you know what's coming next, and it wasn't even the kids! Monica asked me to get my hair gel, so I brought it down to her, but then Grayson went upstairs, so she headed up to do his hair, but didn't realize I took the gel down. I threw it up to her... and threw it straight into the wall!! Fortunately I could reach, and was able to get the gel back out.
Brooke was reading stories to Grayson this morning once they were both ready for church. After a few stories, Grayson decided that Brooke needed a blanket, or two... or all of them from his bed. Also, as I'm looking at this I'm realizing he also pulled out some of the extra sheets from his book case in his closet... Brooke was able to just stay warm.
Grayson has been really good at taking the sacrament by himself lately. Today... he did okay. He climbed up on the bench to pick a water cup, but then decided he needed to climb back down to the floor before drinking it, and managed to dump half of it on my leg. Honestly, it was just hilarious. I think most weeks I get wet when he gets the water, but this week was a bit more than usual.
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