The Gray Report

May 30, 2021 School wrapped up this week and the kids are pretty excited about summertime. That said, Addie was pretty sad to say goodbye to her teacher and class and there were some tears when she was picked up to go home. We enjoyed seeing Hinckley and Addie dance in their end-of-school dance event with their peers at Dry Creek Elementary. They both looked like they were having a really good time! And Greyson did pretty well sitting and watching as well, he is very quiet and pensive with all the people around. Kassie has some great plans in place for making summer fun, including some cool workbooks that include a sticker chart to a prize. Remarkably Hinckley has already finished it (about 100 pages of worksheets) after 1 day of summer and the weekend. He is really excited about the summer schedule including things like "Mother nature Monday" and "Water Wednesday". On the last day of school, Kassie took them to get smoothies to celebrate the end of the year, and th...

May 2, 2021 On Monday Addie had her lip tie surgery and while she was in a lot of pain for about an hour afterward, she did really well. It is amazing how swiftly they did it, and they didn’t have to completely knock her out. I gave her a blessing in her room this morning and Hinckley nudged one of his Blobbys by the door inside his “mars rover” (cardboard box creation) to offer her comfort as well. She took him to the surgery. She did really well the remainder of the week, even with the lip stretching exercises we have to do for her (push and pull her lip in the area the surgery took place so the skin doesn't grow back where it was lasered off).  Addie recovering from lip tie surgery Hinckle's lego creations Hinckley had his first Boys activity without Kassie as one of the leaders, and it went really well. We walked over there as a family to drop him off at the house of the new leaders and then walked around the neighborhood a bit as it is perfect weather right now. When I go...