Family Fun

It's been a pretty swell week this past week.  Grayson's eye is looking better, I went to the doctor again and should start therapy soon, Monica planted some seeds to start the garden indoors, and we had friends over last night before they took off for spring break.  For family movie night we played Mario Kart, which has been the hit choice for the last few weeks.

Monday was pretty windy, and the kids saw someone flying a kite on the way home from school and really wanted to go.  I ran out with them after work, and it was COLD!  My hands were freezing by the time we left.  The girls had a lot of fun, though one of the kites we brought just didn't want to get up in the air.

The other kite, from the dollar store, was doing just fine and I got it all the way out to the end of it's string.  The wind is much nicer above the houses, and the girls enjoyed flying the kites.  They actually really liked the kite that wouldn't stay up because they wanted to run around pulling the kite behind them.

We finished up Grayson's eye drops this past week.  He was supposed to have 2 drops 3 times a day for 5 days.  The very first time wasn't bad, but then it was hard for a day or two, and eventually he started doing great with it.  The captured moments are from the height of difficulty, but later he'd even just tilt his head back and look at the ceiling and let me drop one in quick.  Always for some chocolate chips or marshmallows, but at least he did it willingly.

Reading music (well, reading in general) has been rough lately, so I've started wearing an eye patch when I play the piano.  Jelly wanted to help show it off.  After going to the doctor I'm not sure it's a great idea any more.  I think it's better to make my eyes work hard, but that said, I also think it's bad to sit in double vision.  Anyway, I'm getting some prism glasses soon, and I think I'll probably wear them quite a bit at first to try to get myself back to seeing single as normal, and then start working my way off of them.

Grayson LOVES stories right now.  If I had to pick a favorite thing for him, it would be books.  He also loves to watch videos of books being read.  Here we are at bedtime watching The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  Technically this one is animated, but he loves all stories.  When they went to the library this week he picked up like 5 or 6 bear stories.  They all have the same characters, etc.  He just wants to read them all day ever since.  In fact, we brought one to church and I read it to him on repeat for most of sacrament meeting.

Monica was cleaning up the floor this past week, and Grayson really wanted to help sweep everything up at the end!

On Wednesday someone called in a bomb threat, or bomb tip, or whatever you call it, to Brooke's school.  In the end it was fake, but they still evacuated the school, and it was about 2 hours before they got back to school.  They brought in dogs and cleared the whole building before letting anyone back in.  It was a pretty cold day, and Brooke's class was in music at the time so they didn't even have a chance to get their coats.  They brought school busses in to keep everyone warm while they waited though, and Brooke did enjoy her time on the bus with her friends Abby and Addy.  When Monica picked her up Brooke told her it was the worst day of her life, so they stopped to get ice cream on the way home.  I'm glad everyone was safe.

Monica was doing the girls hair, and Grayson picked out some rubber bands and needed his hair to be done.  Looking pretty stylish!

Winry started to try to find interesting ways to wear her pajamas.  First she was putting them on backwards and having us zip them up her back, but eventually they went on upside down!

Grayson still loves holding himself up and hanging around.  Even handing this kid a banana wont stop him!

I took the kids to a park Saturday morning, and while we were there I was walking by a tree and thought... maybe I should climb this.  It's been quite a while since I've climbed a tree, but it went quite well!  I didn't go too high up, but it was fun.

There was a big rock under the pavilion, and Grayson decided to make it a family!

And today, in spite of our bear book, we didn't make it through all of sacrament meeting.  Instead we ended up in the Relief Society room, doing... this.

Other than the scare on Wednesday things were pretty good out here.  Thursday was even Spanish cultural day at school, and Brooke had so much fun going around seeing other classes projects and going to the assembly and watching the kindergarteners sing.