What a week of creek! While Brooke, Winry and I were out in Colorado, Monica took Grayson to a creek out here in Texas. They had a superb time, and so when we got back we headed over all together on Saturday! It was a lot of fun, and it's nice to know where there's a good creek here in Texas! But more on that later.
Back in Colorado I went for a run Monday morning, and guess who I saw? The creek! This was a very creek heavy week... I threw a stick in for Grayson, I'm sure he appreciated it. I also made sure to come down here where the bridges were flooded as I think it's the place he still remembers the best. I also tried to go on the "new" bridge that finished shortly after we moved, but the gates were still chained shut... so maybe you can ever use that.
In Texas, Monica took Grayson to the new creek. The fallen down tree is a new addition. The creek is pretty extra awesome because there are tons of fossils all over in the rocks. I found a really cool full shell, but didn't take a picture. It's sitting here on my desk in front of me right now. Pretty awesome!
The creek trip was actually play group, so there were lots of friends to play and have a good time with.
While I was out, the cucumber trellis fell away from the fence, and Monica had to go staple it back up. It looks sturdy enough for now, so hopefully it stays.
Back in Colorado we were all having a good time with Alice. Winry really liked to play with her and would find and bring her toys.
Joy came over to play with Grayson, and they had a tea party with gummy bear tea. I don't use gifs much and instead try to pick a favorite picture, but in this case the set of pictures tells a much better story than any one of them. See the gummy bears coming out of the tea pot?
I mentioned putting on plays last week, and that became a popular game for the rest of the week. Everyone was happy the whole time they played it, so it was a pretty good game.
Monica got this big pillow to see if it would help with her back. Grayson just sees a constant hug and snuggle pit, so he's all in and we'll be lucky if he leaves our bed. Grayson and Monica had a lot of fun together, and Grayson definitely loved having constant 1 on 1 time with Monica. They played all sorts of games together, and one Grayson really loved was when they built a marble run track with a "secret" start path.
On Tuesday after work I took the girls to the creek out here in Colorado. They were excited to come back and play. We didn't have too much time before we had to head back for dinner, but if was fun in the sun while it lasted.
Monica and Grayson went to this park that had a horse for Grayson to sit on.
Winry and Alice continued to be best friends! For real, Winry had so much fun playing with Alice, and Alice loved spending time with Winry.
Eek! Our sunflower split and fell down! Guess it's time to pull it out. It was pretty cool while it lasted.
Winry found her roly poly enclosure and decided she'd been pet-less for toooo long. So she went out and found some roly polies! She's very excited to have them back, and has been taking great care of them. The names of her roly polies were particularly incredible: wind-up mouse, teeny beany, waffle, and destroying somersault!
The garden continues to produce, and the cucumbers in specific are everywhere! Maybe we should have left them tipped over...
Brooke glammed out for her call with Gram.. who... happened to be a pirate! Good ol' video filters. I really liked how Brooke looked in this picture!
Winry came down to sleep in our room one night because there was a bug in her curtains. I was out doing some church stuff, but when I got home Monica asked me to go get the bug out. I knocked it out of the curtain, and it looked like it was dead, but it was pretty big, so fair enough for Winry to want to be out. With the bug out I took Winry back up to her bed for the rest of the night.
Remember that sunflower? Well, I was out trying to dig up the stump of it on Saturday when Monica noticed a toad hopping through the garden! I offered to catch it, and eventually got it to hop into my hand. Success! Oh, I got out the stump too.
In the afternoon we headed over to the creek. We had a lot of fun there. By the path, things were shallow and good for everyone to play in. Walking down the creek a little, things got a lot deeper though. Not too deep that Brooke couldn't stand in it, but my understanding is that it was more swimmable. I didn't want to go all the way in, so I didn't check personally. The path was also sloped, which was great fun for Grayson's truck that we brought, and we were also throwing things in the creek on one side and catching them when they came out from under the path. A pretty stellar afternoon.
Rightly so, we went to Jeramiah's for ice cream after. It's been a bit since we've been there, and it was tasty as ever.
The kids were pretty tired after all that playing, as you can notice on Grayson's face here. He was actually in a good mood after his ice cream, but looks kinda grumpy right here before we cleaned his face off.
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