Let's jump into this week and catch up with how Grayson is doing with school starting and having to be up in the morning... hum... Well, he looks really cute! He actually usually wakes up around 7:30 in the morning, but has had the occasional sleep in.
Monica went to the library with some assortment of kids, and there was a chicken wandering around at the library. There's a duck pond there, so maybe it just got confused and thought it was a duck.
Dance started, and Brooke couldn't be more excited. Technically she's already done some dance. She's doing a duet which already had a class, and for company they had a week long camp at the end of summer, but this week started dance classes proper.
On Wednesday we brought Brooke dinner when we picked her up, and went straight to get snow cones at Bahama Bucks for a Valor fundraiser. While we were there, Vivian showed up! Her little sister goes to Valor, and she's on the waitlist and close to getting in. It was great to let the kids catch up and they had a great time together.
Just to round out that night, we got home and Brooke still had to do her homework! She was up late, and technically, we didn't actually finish all her math, but I figured it was good enough. Turns out she's only supposed to spend up to 15 minutes on it, so we were working on it a lot longer than needed, but I made sure she understood it all well before we were done. It looks like her Wednesdays and Fridays might be a little crazy, though we won't always be getting snow cones, so hopefully there will be some homework time available most weeks.
Grayson still loves to play board games, and I feel like he really enjoys a game with fiddly bits, such as Ticket to Ride! I actually think he first started playing this with Monica on her phone, but we have the Europe edition, and he's been wanting to play it every day. He does a good job, plans out his route and builds his own trains. Monica said he's started actually trying to complete his routes, which means you connect between two cities with your color trains to score points at the end of the game. He's pretty advanced in his ability to play board games right now.
Winry had her first day of dance on Friday. She has a class on Monday, but she didn't have it this week because of Labor Day... Anyway, still the first week.
I often find some random pictures of the garden. I decided to pass on the picture of bug eggs on the bottom of a leaf, but there's no way that won't be exciting in a week or two... Here's a giant cucumber. Somethings going on with it, which I'm sure is why it wasn't picked back when it was ripe. Things still tend to grow like crazy here, or at least I'm aware of the things that grow like crazy.
On Saturday, Brooke took Olivia to Pinballz for Olivia's birthday since she missed her party. They had a good time wandering the arcade and playing all sorts of games. They're doing a duet together in dance this year, so naturally they had to play a dance game.
I think we tried a little of everything, and eventually ordered some lunch. While we were waiting for lunch, there was an air hockey table right by us that we gave a try. It ended up being super cool. On the side wall, a ton of mini pucks were stored, and would dump out in the middle of the game. It was quite the surprise the first time it happened.
Eventually our food came, and we had a good time eating. After lunch, we wrapped things up. The girls were gracious enough to let me play pinball one time, and we hit the ticket counter and came home. Olivia came over to our house for a little while after the arcade, and I think she and Brooke spent almost the whole time dancing together. They even dug out old recital outfits and put on a show for us.
Jelly was taking a nap on the chair in our room and I wanted to take a close up of her. I think I was wiggling my phone too much, because she kept looking in focus, but never quite was in the pictures...
Sunday night for dinner we had spaghetti, and Grayson wanted to show off how much he loved the noodles. He just needed this picture, so now you do too!
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