Well look at this little boy, about to turn 3! Grayson had his birthday party yesterday, and we invited all the kids from nursery. The turn out was pretty great, and from my observations everyone had a good time. Especially when the cupcakes came out!
Monica's put together a 1 Second every day for September, so there's a quick month in review!
Rewinding back two weeks (yes, I'm doing a two for one post. I've typically been going back and writing separate posts when I miss a week lately, but the two weeks together yielded about as many pictures as some weeks have, so I'm merging), Winry read everyone a story at bedtime. She's been loving reading her learning to read books, and is picking it up great. She's enjoying reading more and more, and I think she just needs a little more practice before she'll be reading all day long.
At General conference, they announced a temple in Mongolia!! Wahoo! We had to celebrate, so we made buuz for dinner. Monica even bought sheep for them. I think these are the most authentic ones we've made, though I should have rolled the dough thinner. Also, they don't reheat the best... but I've gotten to enjoy them many times.
Brooke and Grayson got strep way back last week. Brooke was home from school for three days. Two days she wasn't doing too bad, but one day she was basically asleep all day. We were still in the necklace kick from conference, and you can see Brooke's rocking what Grayson made her. She's also giving Pokemon a go for the first time on my old Gameboy!
We found a lizard in the backyard on a fence post by the stairs. It was pretty big, but I also found a smaller one under the playground in the yard when I moved it. Winry and I hunted him down and picked him up! He was pretty hard to hold and if we weren't careful jumped straight off our hands, but we were able to keep him calm after a few tries.
Jelly was taking a sweet little nap on the middle of the floor, and making little squeaky/purring sounds. You'll have to listen really closely to hear it.
The library had a rock painting day, so Monica took the kids, and when they got there they were out of rocks, but said they'd have more in a few minutes. A bit later, it was still a few more minutes, and since our yard happens to contain several rocks, they just came home and painted some of our rocks.
We've been playing in the backyard more recently with the nice weather, and the kids enjoy playing tee-ball. Grayson has developed... an approach... to the game. No swing required I guess, as he gingerly pool cues the ball off the tee.
Grayson still loves his orange slices!
Winry was playing with playdoh, and came to get me to show me the Pikachu she made. Pretty impressive stuff.
Saturday was a pretty crazy day. We had Grayson's birthday party mid day during the eclipse! Fortunately, someone who came brought some eclipse glasses so we were all able to see it. I think I was a few minutes after the peak, but I don't think anyone saw a full ring of fire, so I think we just missed it. Still cool though, and it was weirdly dark out.
Here are a bunch of the kids enjoying some lunch together at the gift table.
And here's the cupcake tower and food table.
We of course sang happy birthday to Grayson, though it was windy and a bit hard to keep the candles burning. Also, he tried to grab the candles when I told him to blow them out, but I was able to get it away this birthday.
For the most part the kids just roamed wild, as the dinosaurs would have. We had a few games set up, some craft activities to do, and we did a dinosaur egg hunt too. It seemed like all of the kids had a lot of fun, and I don't even remember any fighting or anything.
After Grayson's birthday party, I took Brooke to Target to get a present for the birthday party she was attending that evening. While we were there we checked out the switch demos and got to play Super Mario Wonder which is coming out later this year. It was a pretty great trip.
I took Brooke to the party, and while we were there we got some updates from home. Winry worked on some face painting and made herself be a cat.
And Grayson got to try on his full Halloween costume! He is going to be ha-Luigi, and is SO excited!
Meanwhile, the party was Halloween themed, and Brooke had a great time with Vivian. There were a lot of kids there, but Vivian came and found Brooke to have her come do one thing or another, and I thought it was awesome that she was always making sure everyone was included.
There was even a photo booth there, and it was very popular with the kids. At one point they all got in there for a group picture... and the photo booth computer crashed like 3 times in a row... I don't know if they ever actually got a full group picture...
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