Had some girl time today while Quinn and Dad worked on their Pinewood Derby cars for Cub Scouts. First, we headed out (after sleeping in a bit this morning) to Grammy and Grampy's to help them clean their house. Well, I cleaned, the girls had fun playing piano, and reading some Junie B. Jones. After that it was off to the grocery store, and to spend the $10 that Grampy gave them. They decided on buying some Lunchables for themselves for lunch (better than McD's... sort of...) and some gum, they were so excited to get some change back and have a little money for their banks and pockets. After lunch we headed back home to help Quinn and Dad load up the Christmas decorations that have been sitting in the family room in boxes for the last couple of weeks, then back again to Grammy and Grampy's to put the stuff up in the garage attic. After doing that Quinn and Grampy got involved in a building project, this time it was a wooden bi-plane with a 2' wingspan. Quinn was so excited to be the "designer" for the project. He keeps thinking if he just adds a few batteries to it though that it will fly... mmmm.... need to work on your engineering a little Quinn. Haha, it is pretty cool though, where I'm going to put it is another story. While Quinn and Grampy were building the girls were busy again playing piano with Grammy and reading books. Avery learned "Chopsticks" (sort of) and Kaleigh how to do C-G with all 5 fingers. Once the building was complete it was back to drop Quinn off with Scott for more Pinewood Derby work, and the girls and I headed to the mall to look for some basketball shoes. We didn't have any luck with that, but we decided to just take a walk around the mall. I haven't been to the mall in ages, to just walk around anyway, and it was fun to just walk and browse without an agenda or time constraint. As we were walking we passed the ear piercing place, Avery has been wanting to have her ears pierced for quite some time now, and so I told her I would call and ask her Dad.... he has NOT been wanting to have her ears pierced for quite some time :) but today he gave in, and said she could go ahead and do it if she (and I) would take on the responsibility of making sure they are taken care of. I thought it would be a nice way to end the "girls day" we were having, and Avery wanted to tell Soph and Ella that her Dad finally said she could get them pierced. Turns out Soph was planning on having hers done too, so we met up and they got them done at the same time. Earring Buddies! Avery told Soph that she could go first... haha, a little nervous? Yep, but Soph was READY! They both did great, flinched a little, but NO tears and were chatting it up after their newly installed dolphin earrings were in their ears. Fun girls day ended by going to watch some "Broomball" at church and some pizza for dinner.
