Guests, guests galore! It's a busy time of year for travel, or at least it has been at our house. This week the Seawrights came to visit! They are here for the eclipse since we'll be in totality, but got here on Friday so we got to spend a few days together hanging out. This included watching conference together. Grayson was this good and let everyone watch and listen for the full 10 hours... :)
Rolling back to Monday it was time to work on the garden. Monica got this little area all nice and planted, and it looks great! We had enough random rocks scattered in the grass to make a nice edge as well! Winry put in some good work shoveling out there as well.
Sometimes your stuffed snake gets tired, and when that happens, you just have to make a bed on the fireplace. Grayson did such a great job making him nice and cozy!
Monica took all the kids with her to Brooke's volleyball practice. Typically Grayson does not do well sitting and watching things, but the good news is that Monica found something to keep Grayson busy. Grayson and Winry were being the ball collectors, chasing them down and putting them back in the ball carrier. They had a REALLY fun time, so that's fantastic.
On Friday evening the school had a carnival! Winry was very excited to attend. We went just the two of us to scout it out and let everyone know if they should join us. The school gave all of the students wrist bands, and you had to have one to do the activities. There was no buying tickets, etc. to do any activities, so it was just Winry and I.
There was lots of fun to be had. They had several inflatable games to play, like an obstacle course and slide, ball kicking games, and even a bungie cord dash.
We also stumbled upon Willy the wildcat who was looking fine.
They had a petting zoo there. Winry was very excited to get to pet the animals. Here she's petting a chicken, which was likely a life changing moment. She loves chickens so much. There was also a pig there, which she really wanted me to take a video of so that we could share it with Brooke.
And on our way out we saw a slot car race. Winry was the red car that's right in front of her. Winry did awesome driving the car and even won the race by putting in the most laps!
So yeah, Grayson wasn't actually super great and quiet for conference on Saturday, so after the morning session it was up to his room for a nap so that we could focus a little better on the afternoon session. I went to check on him after he'd been up there a bit and he fell asleep in his doorway!
That night at bedtime Grayson was working on his somersaults. I actually didn't realize he was trying to roll the few days before this he was working on them. I thought he was doing donkey kicks, but was also impressed that sometimes he'd jump himself high enough to stall up on his hands for a bit, kind of like a hand stand, but not stretched out. Well, while he was working on somersaults he would maybe get 1 in 5 attempts, and had lots of cool looking handstands, so I wanted a video of him doing a handstand and I think he successfully did every somersault for the full minute video I took! But hey, you can see Grayson doing a somersault.
On Sunday we went to see the bluebonnets again. It's the time of year for it, and it was a new set of visitors, so our hands were tied.
When we got back Monica started working on cinnamon rolls while eating some yogurt. Big mistake! She accidentally cracked an egg straight into her bowl of yogurt! She scooped it out into her measuring cup and everything turned out okay.
Our Don't Break the Ice has been missing an ice cube for a while, and I finally printed a new one. I found one that looks just the same, but the pattern on top is mirrored. It's orange because that's what was in my printer.
Grayson has been really into bubbles lately, and we've gone through a LOT of our big gallon jug. Possibly a fourth of it just this weekend. Here you can see he's got stacked bubble machines for maximum bubble joy!
Tom and Carolyn came down to join us for Sunday dinner and to see the Seawrights while they were here. We grilled a bunch of chicken, and had a really great time all being together.
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