Tuesday Bradley had preschool and I got the dishes done in the morning too. Lauren always asks what we did while she is gone and I tell her and she says no what else. She never believes me when I tell her it was just the dishes and going to preschool. I guess it must seem like she does so much more in the same time. In the afternoon we delivered invitations for Bradley's monster birthday party. Lauren rode her bike for part and wanted to ride down to pick up Jared. So I rolled his bike down to the school (while pushing the stroller) so Jared could ride home. Tuesday night we went to an open house to say thank you and bye to the Freestones. Then we went to juggling club.
Wednesday we made our usual trip to the library and a quick trip to the store before getting Lauren. Jared got to walk over to BYU and see some dancers from China. We just happened to see him walking back. There were a ton of kids. It looked like most of the school got to go. He said it was pretty neat. After school Jared and Brad both had well child checks at the doctor. They are both healthy and doing well. Bradley was super tired, but he just doesn't like going to the doctor...until it comes time for the sticker and sucker at the end. Wednesday night Greg came over and anxiously waited for everyone else to get here so he could open his mission call. He is going to the Mozambique Maputo mission. I think he'll fit right in :) We are all super excited for him. He will be a great missionary. (After the announcement yesterday during conference we were joking with him that it's good he already got his call so it didn't get mixed in with the new rush.)
Thursday we went and helped in Lauren's class. This time we got to help them color their families faces for their special books they are making all about themselves. Really we were there to try and talk them out of giving their moms green skin and their dads purple hair. Most were pretty good but some no matter how hard I tried looked like they could have made appearances at Brad's monster party. One little boy couldn't remember what any of his family looked like. I asked him who dropped him off at school and he said my mom. I said ok what color hair does she have. He gave a very emphatic I don't know. I tried skin color, eyes, mouth, nose...every time I got the same answer. He was getting more and more frustrated with me...I told you I don't know!!!! I wanted to say how do you not know, but we just moved on and worked on him. He was sitting right there and if he didn't know I could tell him. We spent the rest of the day getting things ready for Bradley's monster party. We walked down to pick up Jared again...with bikes...and then over to get some monster body parts laminated. We were able to eat out at the quad barbecue this week. It hadn't worked for a while since Lauren had soccer games most Thursdays.
Friday I baked a couple of batches of cupcakes...and just did more general getting ready for the big monster bash...or maybe it was a mash. I did go help in Jared's class for awhile. They were working on their scarecrows. It was kind of crazy but really fun to help them. There are 19 boys in the class and 9 girls. I only know a few of them from last year so I have been trying to learn their names. I don't like to ask them over and over so I just try to listen for when someone else says it and then remember. Last week we were playing a game to help with vowel sounds in the middle of the word (I'm pretty sure they all liked scarecrows better...I sure did) and I used one little boy's name (his friend had been saying it repeatedly) and he looked at me and said hey how did you know my name. Then pretty quickly he said oh the family presentation. I just had to laugh inside...I couldn't remember any names from that...I couldn't even understand most of them when they said them right then. Well this last week in Jared's class they were working on their scarecrows at the desks...with their names on them. The same little boy said how do you know my name when I asked what color paper he wanted...oh yeah the family presentation. I think now though I really do know his name...I guess we'll see next week.
Bradley had a great birthday party. He didn't want everyone in the quad to come...and that was just fine. We still ended up with about 14 or 15 kids there. We played monster monster how's your neighbor, monster monster who stole your fur, monster in the closet, read if your a monster and you know it, made a monster with the monster body parts, played with balloons, had cupcakes, and opened presents...and they decorated bags like monsters when they first got there. It was tons of fun. It seemed like a pretty quick little party, but perfect for the ages there. Once again Greg came and saved the day. After the party was all cleaned up Jared practiced unicycle for a bit and got 6 pedals without holding on to anyone or anything. Then we went down to the tailgate party by the stadium. We had a fun time there. Brad was wiped out. He slept through most of it...and for sure the loudest parts.
Super Greg
Saturday we cleaned up a little and baked a cake and watched General Conference. Jared thought it was pretty unfair that his birthday could never be on conference and that Brad's could. I'll admit that's not what I was thinking.... Bradley did have a good day. He got to Skype with Grandma and Grandpa Schachterle and then during priesthood we did a Google hangout with Ashley and Lindsay and Alyanne...at the same time. It was fun and a little crazy. Greg, Jeff, Elizabeth, and Spencer all came over after the priesthood session. We played a few games and opened presents and ate cake. It was a lot of fun it just got kind of late.
He wanted a lemon cake and a red monster...I thought the party hat would be fun, but it looks more like a stocking hat...or a house without the eyes.
Today we just got to enjoy conference. We played with some of Brad's new toys and went on a walk between sessions. Mostly we just spent the day relaxing and enjoying each others company (except for the times when we weren't..but there weren't too many times like that :)
Connor pulled himself up on the BYU bucket so he could get some crumbs from someones french toast breakfast. And this last week he started going from laying down to sitting up by himself too.
ready for our walk...the shoes finally fit, but he doesn't like to wear them.
We are looking forward to this coming week with all our visitors and having a little break from school. Have a wonderful orange-pineapple week!!!! And if you are coming here I'm sure you will. :)
Well, I don't eat orange or pineapple, but that does sound like a fun week! Happy Birthday to Brad!!!!! And I'll go with I think he's lucky he had his birthday on conference :)
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