Church Dinner

Just before our country turned a new page on history our family did. On Sunday I took my daughter to the church where my grandma was confirmed in the 1930's for the yearly All Saints dinner. Here are some of our favorite pictures.

Grandpa Wolf & Iz

Auntie Jess & Iz

Looking at the Lefsa

Eating the Lefsa- Good Norwegian Girl!

Iz with Great Grandma

Halloween

Daddy & Isabelle

Isabelle and her cousin visiting Great Grandpa!

a little taste of halloween!

Our Day care provider brought Isabelle into my office for the trick or treating last friday. As you can see here this Bee Costume will will be used for the next few years! It's pretty cute however. Hope you all had a great weekend and guess what- My house is clean! Now I should have time to put of all of those pictures I have been promising!

little Indian call & High 5

So last night I was working on a quilting project on the couch and Todd was checking some thing on the Internet and Isabelle, perfect child that she is, was playing on the floor. All of a sudden I hear her making a different noise. Nothing alarming just funny- I looked down and there she was doing an "Indian call". I know that is probably terribly not PC- but it's the thing when you say "AHHHHHHHH" and you tap your mouth with your hand to change the sound. ( I know you are all doing this as you read this too.)
In truth Isabelle and I had been doing this where I would show her what to do and then she would say "aHHHHHH" and I would tap her mouth with my hand but last night there she is doing it all by herself! It was hilarious and wonderful.
Also in the realm of useful things that we have been teaching Isabelle last week she learned "High 5". I'm hoping the next thing she will get is how to Ollie on a skate board. I think it's important to teach her these basic life skills early. Talk about coping mechanisms, she is off to a great start.

Fall at the Farm

Here are some photos from our weekend around the farm. It was so much fun! If anyone needs pumpkins come on up the farm we have PLENTY!

FIRST PIGGIES!

Today when I picked up Isabelle from day care she had her first piggie tails in. There is no joy like that of when you can finally put something in your little girls hair to indicate that yes she may wear blue but she is a GIRL!

Star Bellied Sneetches

When changing Isabelle into her pj's one night we found a star on ours. A Gerber melt away had made its way under the onesie when it missed her mouth and ended up on her belly button. I laughed endlessly!

She said it... you heard it!

So last night Isabelle slept through the night. I'm not sure if it was that her teeth were finally not hurting her or the fact that she wore herself out playing with the puppies at my parents house.

I woke up at 5 am with a start realizing that she hadn't woke up once last night. Which was a relief for my wonderful husband who needed to sleep off his butter hang-over from eating 145 shrimp at red lobster last night. So I tip toed in her room to make sure she was still breathing... she was and when I went to cover her up I acidently touched her foot and she awoke. So we had a bottle and then she went back to sleep and didn't wake until 8:00 am!!! It was wonderful!

Then we were having family cuddle time because it was Todds day off and she say up and looked at us and said "mama n dada!" I looked at Todd and said "did you hear that?!?!?!" He said "Yes I did but you also thought she said book 3 months ago." Which for the record she did say "Booh Kha" 4 times in a row while holding a book and my dad heard it as well. So what if she hasn't said it since then. It just didn't stick, she'll say it again some time. Now that we have "Mama n Dada" down we are going to work on other family members... so be ready to take pictures this weekend everyone!