Brooke turned 10?!? We have a double digit kid? Oh my! She had a fun birthday going to paint pottery at that place we have out here while Grayson was at school, and in general had fun throughout the rest of the day. We had a great caramel chocolate cake with ice cream, and Brooke wore that birthday headband for most of the day!
Winry had dance after school. But as soon as she got home, Brooke opened her presents and then we went to Panera for dinner. Yum.
We came home, sang happy birthday, and had cake and ice cream! It was somewhat late by the time we finished, but it was a good cap to Brooke's birthday. She got Harry Potter 4 for her birthday, and who even knows how long she spent reading before falling asleep!
The kids said something about a hammock to Monica and she realized that we have one just sitting around, so they put it up on the playground. Now there's three swingable objects out there, and the kids love going out together.
At Brooke's nature co-op this week, they went for a hike. Monica said it was only like 15 minutes from here, and they hiked a mile and a half loop, and it had a great camp site along the path. We may have to find our way up there as a family some time, preferably this winter while it's cool. Brooke put on some animal camo to help hide so she could get up close to anything they found.
Grayson decided it was time to collect the fruits of all his acorn collecting and learned to use a mallet this week. He LOVES cracking open acorns (and anything else he can)! He also loves wearing his Perry the Platypus costume from Halloween anytime he can!
I don't remember where this tissue paper came from, but Jelly knows a good time when she sees one, and she dove in head first. I just dare you to walk close by those claws of fury.
Grayson had a Thanksgiving lunch at preschool on Thursday. There was a sign up so I thought it was just potluck, buy my goodness it was such a Thanksgiving lunch! And it was fabulous!! Also, Grayson was trying to run away from taking a picture, but for some reason we were able to catch him so long as his friend, Henry, was there.
Grayson ended up getting sick and throwing up in the middle of the night Thursday night to Friday. It wasn't too bad, but it was while he was on the stairs, so that made it a bit trickier to clean up, especially with minimal lights on to allow him to fall asleep on the couch. Here he is in the morning. What a cutie! Fortunately, he only threw up that one time, but he did have a fever and spent most of Friday and some of Saturday on the couch.
On Friday, Winry had her living wax museum at school. All the kids were assigned a Greek god or goddess, and they dressed up and wrote up some info about about who they were. Then as you walked by, you could press their "button" and they'd tell you about who they were! Winry was Athena.
Here's a few of the other kids around Winry as well. The whole second grade does it, and the time we went to see her was just two of the classes. It was pretty fun, and the kids seemed like they were really enjoying it.
Grayson did not want to take any medicine while he was sick. His fever never got so high that we really had to insist on him taking something, but he did have a headache for a lot of the day. At night, Monica gave him a wet washcloth to help him cool down while he was going to sleep and he loved that! Oh, and when she was out, she saw that Grinch stuffy and grabbed it for him too. It's hard to say he's living his best life while he's sick, but this is still pretty close.
Niki is over in Australia again with Oriah and her family, and while they were there they went to a place to pick strawberries, and Niki sent me this picture for Grayson. If you don't remember, when Grayson was 1 or 2 (probably both) when he was playing in the backyard he'd go over to the garden and pick anything he knew was food and eat it, and that included all the strawberries (red or white), and all the tomatoes, no matter the color!
Jelly caught Monica leaving her spare bed exposed and snuck in for a quick nap. There's no keeping a spare bed hidden from a cat.
On Saturday night we went out to dinner with the Packers, and then went to see the new Wicked movie. It was a very fun date.
I got another gem from Niki today. They went to the koala experience at the zoo and saw Denise again! Her babies are out of her pouch and are quite big now! You can see both of them here. She specifically sent this to me because Denise climbed up the tree, and then slid down and sat on top of one of her babies! Also, since they were there, I had them ask at the gift shop about our adopt-a-koala we did while we were out there because we haven't heard ANYTHING about Denise since our visit. We should have seen these babies months ago! Anyway, hopefully my email is on the list now, and it's good to see that Denise is healthy, living her best life, and cheeky as ever!
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