What a week! This is the final week of things before the Christmas break, which also means that this is the week when all the presentations are! The girls had Christmas dances for us to come see (and are in 8 classes between the two of them. I don't think I have that many videos though). We'll kick off the week with Winry's first dance.
Right after we got to see that dance, she headed into her hip hop class, and about an hour later we were back for an encore. Grind that coffee!
Grayson had a pajama day at preschool AND a balloon party, AND they were the same day. That's enough happiness kids might explode! Fortunately they didn't. And, in the video this time the teachers also didn't have to tell a kid not to hit :).
When I was walking back to the train one day this week, I stumbled upon a delivery robot on the sidewalk waiting to cross. This isn't actually where I was going to cross, but I wanted to watch it so I crossed the street with it, and then it went almost all the way with me to the train station! It was fun to watch it navigating the sidewalk, swerving around scooters and finding the wheel chair ramps. Honestly, I'm surprised how many places in downtown have a staircase in the middle of the sidewalk.
On Wednesday, Grayson had his Christmas performance at preschool. He was very excited to see us when he walked in, and did a great job singing all his songs. He is in the oldest class, which gets to dress up for the nativity. They sang their two songs first, and then sang with everyone else the final song at the end.
Here he is with Lincoln, his best friend, trying to stave off boredom and behave between opportunities to sing.
Jelly is starting to warm up to Brooke more and more. She'll take her lap just as often as anyone else's in the evenings these days.
Monica watched the Weeks kids for a while on Friday I believe. Brooke really loves to help out with watching kids and loves taking care of babies. She is very excited to become a babysitter in a few years. She took Lewis out to swing while they were over. She looks like a natural.
Friday, both of the girls had dance class. First we went into Brooke's dance class to watch her.
And then they held up the second class to let any parents with kids in both to make it to watch Winry's dance as well. Then we went to pick up dinner, and were planning to come back and watch Brooke's next dance, but the Texas traffic was unreal and we barely made it to the restaurant to pick up our food by the time Brooke's class finished. It's usually a 10-ish minute drive. Sigh... but Brooke was a champion about it and didn't complain at all that we missed her dance.
We had a cookie decorating party at our house on Saturday, and while I was working on cleaning up and putting away these puzzle pieces, Jelly decided it was a great time for a nap. Thanks Jelly.
Here's a gaggle of kids over decorating cookies. The invitation was a come and go type event over a few hours. It was a lot of fun to have people over and talk, and the kids all had a great time decorating cookies. I don't think many adults decorated cookies, but even with my minimal decorating I think we personally ended up with 8 plates of cookies.
Saturday night we had our Bethlehem dinner. We usually do it closer to Christmas, but we're leaving on Monday to go out to Utah, so we had to get everything in before.
And speaking of getting things in early, we also did mini-Christmas morning on Sunday. We gave the kids presents from us, especially since we had some larger items that would have been hard to pack along with us. Winry got an electric drum set, and played it all day long. She was loving it so much.
Grayson got a big Hot Wheels shark car wash that he was ecstatic about. He also got a cardboard crafting kit with a saw and screwdriver and screws. He really loves cutting things (his New Year's resolution was to cut something with scissors every day) and was having the time of his life cutting up cardboard boxes all morning.
Brooke got a really big Hogwarts Castle Lego set. Apparently we didn't take a picture of it, and she didn't quite finish it by Sunday evening despite working on it all day. I'll make sure to get a picture when it's complete after we get back.
We also got some larger items from Gram and Pop. These all probably fit into the category of "actually wouldn't fit in a suitcase." These would include a lacrosse stick for Winry, a pop-up volleyball net for Brooke, and a mini-trampoline for Grayson. It's a good thing church wasn't until noon.
Jelly really wanted to get out in the backyard, so I let her come out with me leash free. I really probably shouldn't have, as it probably is teaching her it's okay to dart out the door, but she enjoyed chewing some grass, and the cool morning air for a while before we headed back inside.
Sacrament meeting was mostly all music, and the primary got up to sing a musical number. In between verses, the chorister was signing things like a star to help the kids remember what the next verse was. Every time she did, Grayson would turn around and in a very loud whisper, that I could hear 6 or so rows back, would let everyone know what the next verse was going to be. I got several comments specifically about Grayson's performance after sacrament meeting, and the chorister came over and gave him a hug and thanked him for helping keep everyone together for the song! I'm grateful for our great primary leaders.
After church, we got our annual Christmas picture in front of the tree! It only took a bit of bribery, but it also only took like 3 pictures.
Sunday night the Couches, one of our new friends in our new ward, invited us and some other families over for cinnamon rolls. We had a great time over there, and there was a large gang of kids who were all having fun together. Except Grayson, who needed some individual attention from his parents. I went up with Grayson and we found this Mario Kart Hot Wheel track to set up. Grayson was having the time of his life racing the cars over and over again. It was a pretty cool track.
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