Since our last post...
The weekend of Sept 19th, Stan went to Iowa with Steve, to golf and play in the annual "Olympic" games (including foosball, darts, cornhole, battleship, etc). While he was gone, I decided to take the kids camping with some friends. We went to Fruita for some 80 degree weather and camped at Highline Lake State Park. There were 2 other families with boys that were Casey's age and girls that were a year older than Garrett. The kids played in the lake, on the beach, rode on the paddleboards with us adults, biked and found all kinds of forts throughout the campground.
Casey started Daisy Scouts. She had her 2nd meeting this past Monday. It's held every other Monday right after school in the school art room. There are 12 girls. I got talked into becoming co-leader with 2 other moms. So far, so fun!
We are getting into more of a routine with school (besides last week, where Casey stayed home most of the week sick). She is very good at getting up, making her bed (still working on it), getting dressed, grabbing her backpack, etc. without any arguments. We still meet Ryan and Hogan at the front and they all still walk back together. Sometimes we drive Dillon to school too. She definitely comes home telling us about her day and telling us things she has learned. She knows all the pieces of a computer; She is learning to discuss stories and think about what might happen next; She knows her days of the week, and that Saturday is no school.
Though she does come home tired and a little grumpy, she has been really sweet to Garrett, most of the time. She helps him with a lot: she will take him upstairs with her to play, tries to read him books, brings toys into the play house, walks him down the stairs. Very sweet to him, until he starts getting feisty and takes a toy she wants or when he hits her because he didn't get his way.
Garrett loves playing upstairs where the toy room is. Sometimes he'll be playing in the living room while I'm in the kitchen and then I'll hear him make his way upstairs. He is trying to say more words and sometimes he'll "say" a full sentence and look at us like we should understand him completely. He is also interested in the potty. Yesterday after I told Casey to use it before we leave, he raced her into the bathroom and was pulling at his pants. So I put him on the potty and he just grinned, so excited...he did not go potty, but we'll get there.
It's been getting cold here. It's in the mid 30's in the morning and 50's/60's in the afternoon. We got snow last Friday/Saturday. The resorts have started to make snow. We are ready to shrow the poow!
Onto pix...
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| Garrett's new "cheese" face... |
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| Walking down to the lake from the campground...Garrett, the ladies man. |
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| another "cheese" face |
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| Garrett not feeling so well...chilling on the couch, watching some football |
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| princess Casey |
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| at the playground with Dillon and Connor |
