Happy Birthday Monica! It was great to get to celebrate Monica for all the wonderful things she does for us all! Here we are having peach crisp at the end of the day. 9 neatly spaced candles, to represent her turning 9 this year!
School started on Monday for the girls. Sewer still isn't connected, but otherwise things seem functional. I guess gym has been on the road for the time being, and recess is just in a large woodchip area. Fear not, they're still building out the rest of the needs for the kids, and the girls are already reporting updates! Here they are giving each other a hug, and I had to share this generated image. They've been hugging ever since Winry was born!
Grayson's school hasn't started yet, so he and Monica have gotten to enjoy more time together. He's been loving playing with Rainbow, his snake from the zoo in Australia, and they found a new game this week. It does require a clean and empty room, and a bit of spinning.
Grayson has gotten a lot of hand me downs from Michael and Oriah's boys, and he loves those clothes, but he's been longing for some hand me downs from his siblings. I mean, Winry get's all of Brooke's favorite shirts, why can't Grayson get some. Well... I think you can tell why! Also, he's got it on backwards.
We got to go see Grayson's preschool for a back to school night and say hi to his new teacher. He's really excited and as we looked around ,we saw several of his friends from last year will be in his class again! As we walked out of the classroom, they had some music playing and balloons out in the general purpose space and Grayson looked in and said "a balloon party? I'm definitely going to that!" And so we did.
We went to look around the school yard, and while we were out there, we found a little frog! I told the kids not to lift it high so that if it jumped out of their hands it wouldn't get hurt falling to the ground. Winry caught it a few times, and forgot not to stand up and lift the little guy high, but in the end he was still hopping.
Here's Grayson at the back to school sign, right by the popsicle stand! I even got a popsicle, because the first one Grayson got was broken inside.
Saturday was Monica's birthday. In the morning we had a primary program practice, and then Monica left from there to go to a gardening class. I tried to get the kids to do some cleaning, etc. to surprise her when she got home, and we got some stuff done. When she got back, she had exciting gardening things to tell us about and we opened up some presents. She's been doing sourdough again recently, so there were some supplies to be helpful there, some other kitchen gadgets, and a canning set!
A brief intermission to give Jelly and drink, and she was drinking slooooooooow.
For dinner we went to Aleida's, which I would call a Mexican restaurant, but I think it's really something else but similar (It's Venezuelan). The food was delightful, and the lighting bad for pictures. This was the first time the kids had gone, but Monica and I have been several times on dates. Yum.
I took Winry on a little walk to check the mail and we saw this cloud. I can't remember what she said it looked like now, but it's kinda got a turtle head vibe, so probably something like that.
It's been a long process, but Jelly and the kids continue to get along better and better. This is in part due to the kids being calmer around her. She's laid on Brooke's lap multiple times, and Grayson can scratch her shoulder just right so that she's gotta get her leg up there and phantom scratch the air.
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