Happy Birthday Monica!

Happy Birthday Monica!!  Friday night we headed to Dos Salsas for dinner.  We had never been before, and it was pretty good.  We're still trying to establish some favorites, and I think there was something here for everyone.  We had a great night out.

Rolling back to the start of the week, Monica and Grayson built a really cool marble run together.  They used all the pieces, which is all Grayson could ever dream of!  He was very happy, and even came and got me from work to show me.

We heard this week that Grayson made it off the wait list and into preschool!  He went with Monica to check it out at their back to school night, and will start next week.  He is really excited to get started.  The school even has a bridge with rainbow colors painted on it, and he's really excited to take the rainbow bridge to the playground.  Also, they had an apple out for pictures, and some kid took a bite out of it...  we're just lucky it wasn't Grayson.

Grayson's gotten a bunch of new clothes lately.  They've all been passed down from Oriah once her boys outgrow them.  These pajamas have the magic pattern that matches his blankie, and he was really excited to be wearing blankie jammies!!

Grayson and Joy went for a drive around town at Goodwill.  Looks like they're having a good time!  This might have been some back to school shopping, because I know Grayson picked up a new backpack from a thrift store with dinosaurs all over.

Grayson had his first dentist appointment this last week.  He did great.  They gave him a stuffed animal to hold and he got to watch a show, and he listened and cooperated completely.  We were given some areas to work on, and he's also started flossing every day since!  Awesome first appointment.

Oh, at dinner I mentioned it was Monica's birthday and they brought out some fried ice cream and sang happy birthday, and she got to wear a really cool sombrero!

When we got back home, we sang happy birthday to Monica, but we were so full we didn't even cut the brownies!  They were just birthday decoration brownies!  Don't worry, they still tasted fantastic day old.

After singing, we also opened presents.  We had to do that a bit later than usual because we were waiting on the Amazon man to show up!  But at least they really did come today.

One of those gifts was some nail polish display things.  The girls were very excited to see them put up, so we put them up right away and got everything on display!

There was a nice sunset that we enjoyed together on Monica's birthday once the kids were in bed.

And here's Grayson flossing his teeth.  He's taken straight to it and has loved it so far.  He loves using the little flossers the dentist gave him, so we'll have to get something like that soon, since he only has 3!

And with that, we'll call it a week.