Brooke had her first company dance performance this last Saturday! It was a part of the Leander old town Christmas kick off leading up to the tree lighting in the evening. It was supposed to be on a stage, however it was raining all day (in fact, it rained almost all week), so it got moved to the street! It was a light rain, but it was pretty constant all day long, and the stage was just too flat and water was pooling up, so they were worried about the girls slipping. Brooke did an amazing job, and it was a lot of fun to go watch her dance! It was a pretty cold day, in the 40's all day, so the crowds were small, and everyone else that was supposed to perform on the stage backed out, but the true fans were there. In fact, Vivian and her family and the Ellers even came to watch Brooke dance!
Alright, this just isn't fair. Grayson will just stand there with a super cute smile so his teachers can get this amazing picture of him. Do you think in a million years he'd do that for Monica or I? Absolutely not! Good thing we're sending him to preschool!
On Monday, we went and got our Christmas tree. Just a quick hop over to HEB after work, and before you knew it, we got a fine pine tied to our car. It's nice having a luggage rack on our car to tie the tree too, as opposed to our Corollas where I had to roll down the windows and tie the doors shut! Everyone get in, I'm tying the tree now!
Everyone was very excited to decorate the tree, so we went straight to it. Grayson received the honors of putting the star on the top of the tree. What an honor.
One of Brooke's ears got infected where it was pierced. It got really swollen, and we got medicine for it, and it started healing quickly. However, when the swelling came down, the skin had come around the earring backing, and it was stuck. We had to take Brooke to the doctor, and they used some numbing cream and were able to get it off with little fuss. They told Brooke she probably shouldn't put in an earring for a while because the whole in the back was so large, but she decided she would rather risk in than let the hole close. Good news, it turned out fine! Our takeaway from this is that Brooke needs to wear sterling silver or gold earrings, and can switch in hypoallergenic ones for a day if she wants, but needs to switch back to something "safer" at night.
While I was at work this week, the fire alarm went off. We all had to evacuate and walk around the block to our meeting point. After sitting out there for about a half hour, we were allowed back into the building where there were cupcakes and cookies waiting for us. Turns out it was all a drill, and cookies were there to smooth that over after interrupting everyone's work for an hour.
I've been having good fun reading Grayson stories at night lately, and Winry comes and joins us sometimes as well. After a particularly good round of "Green eggs and ham" where I switched things up and said "green eggs and plate" and everyone laughed super hard, I decided to commemorate with a picture.
Grayson continues to love Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, though when I found him and Monica playing it, I discovered it had become a much more dangerous game, as Grayson was equipped with a hammer from "Don't Break the Ice."
With the Ellers moving soon, it makes any time we get together a photo worthy moment. What was happening here? Don't know. I know Laura and Joy came over for a tea party, so picture time!
Here's Joy with Brooke. This was the day she was taken out of school to go to the doctor for her ear, and she just stayed home the rest of the day after.
On Friday night, we went to a walk-through Nativity that Monica was singing at. It was fun, and the kids enjoyed watching all the different scenes from Christ's life play out.
After walking through the nativity, we went into the church were the choir was singing! Good job Monica! We didn't get to stay for very long because Grayson just couldn't sit still. There's something about sitting in a church that makes him NEED to kick the seat in front of him... sigh.
Saturday morning, Brooke and I went to HEB to pick up a grocery order, and stopped at McDonalds on the way. Yum McGriddles!
I went over to a help with some clean up service for a widow in our ward. Her husband had collected a fair bit of stuff in and out of the house, and after his recent passing, there's been a big need to clean things up. I was amazed how much had already been done in the backyard, and I was able to get all this hauled around front in my time there. They're between dumpsters right now, so my time was limited by available garbage can space.
We got a package of meat on Saturday, and it came with dry ice. I asked Brooke to go get a penny and showed her how to make it wiggle! We also left it in for a while to get it super cold, and then would blow on the penny and watch it frost over. Fun stuff.
In the early afternoon, we headed over for the dance performance. We have just enough umbrellas for everyone to have one, and I was lucky enough to get the smallest one.
Brooke had to be there about 45 minutes early, so we had some time to hang out while we waited. You may notice that there was quite a bit of musical umbrella, and I often was holding 3 at a time. There was a Santa sleigh on the stage, and Grayson climbed in for a picture.
Grayson and Winry rode the light up train. Toot toot!
And we found this little gingerbread play house which the kids had a great time playing in. This was good, because again, it was pretty cold, and we were out there for quite a while, so eventually Winry and Grayson needed something to do.
After the dance, Grayson needed to head straight for the car while everyone else watched the remaining dances. There were puddles all along the side of the road, and Grayson was in his rain boots. He almost stepped into a deep spot that went above the top of his boots, and when running kicked water inside them, so he had pretty cold feet when we made it back to the car.
After everyone danced, all the groups got a picture together in front of the giant Christmas tree.
That night was the ward Christmas party and we had chicken and waffles. Grayson was really enjoying the waffles, like REALLY enjoying them. Other then dinner we just sorta hung out and chatted with friends, but had an absolute stellar time!
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