Curious George

The Minnesota Children's Museum had a Curious George exhibit in September.  Aunt Kait and Elise drove up with us and we stopped by Aunt Mary Beth's to have lunch and bring her along.  As we pulled up to the building Amelia saw a large Curious George on the outside of the building.  She was so excited she could hardly wait to get in there!

There were lots of little stations to play in.  One of Amelia's favorites was the spaceship slide.

She also liked finding all of the characters throughout the room.

Even Evelyn enjoyed seeing our favorite little monkey.

It was hard to pull Amelia away from that room but she soon discovered there was all kinds of fun things to play with in every room.

Next we headed to the infant room which had lots of mirrors, soft things to play with and bells.

Evelyn was pooped after that and passed out in Aunt Mary Beth's arms, which neither minded at all.

Besides the George room, Amelia's other top area was the bubble water stations.  She had so much fun and played so hard she fell asleep on the way home which never happens anymore!

Grandparent's Day

 I found these Papa shirts and could not resist them!

I was disapointed thinking I would never be able to find any Sissy shirts, then my sister-in-law reminded me that I could make some with my Cricut.  

So of course we had to do a little photo shoot!  Amelia loves to point to her shirts and "read" what they say. 

August Finale

Amelia and pup pup wearing the drum for a hat at Aunt Kait's house.

Amelia and Evelyn playing together.

Garrett's gymnastics birthday party.  Amelia and Kirsten were in the fort made from mats.

Puddle jumping with Sissy.

Daddy's Fixin' School Buses!

August 1st was a very exciting day for our family.  Lucas began a new job as diesel mechanic for Palmer Buss in North Mankato.  After working for the St. Peter treatment center for seven years we were very blessed that he found this new position at Palmer.  His time at the treatment center was becoming harder and harder on our family as we were growing.

So now he is in a job that is not only more fulfilling for him personally but we are able to spend regular weekends and holidays together as a family!  His work is only six minutes away from home so he gets to come home for lunch everyday.  It is also a very friendly work environment and the owner has encouraged us to come up and visit.  So we do, and we have daddy take us for school bus rides!

At first Amelia wasn't so sure about school buses.  She only wanted to sit in one when it wasn't running.  Then she wanted to ride in one in her carseat.  Luckily there are some carseats in the mini buses.  Then she wanted to ride in a bigger bus and was alright without a carseat.  Now she's says the "school buses go fast!" and "go fast daddy!"

ECFE Open House

We went to the fall ECFE open house again this year.  This time Daddy and cousin Elise joined us.  There was a petting zoo outside so of course we had to check out the animals.  

Amelia wasn't so sure about petting the goats, warmed up to the idea, got pushed around by one and wouldn't go back into the pen after that.

Elise got to watch from the outside.

We had fun visiting Auntie Rachel.

Everyone was super excited to ride the tractor.

The kids also had fun pretending to be animals and farmers.  

Amelia wanted a ride in the farm themed wagon so we thought it was a great chance to get a group shot.

Random August

 Corn on the cob is a favorite around here.  So much that we had to quit eating it because someone's diapers were getting really nasty.

Evelyn eats so much food that she needs to have a daily dose of prunes to keep her from getting constipated.   Amelia also loves prunes and gets upset that she doesn't get to eat them everyday like Evelyn.

Evelyn finally graduated to the highchair!  Mostly because Amelia kept trying to climb up on the table to "help her eat" and hand her foods.  Amelia is such a sweet sister and always trying to share her food with Evelyn.  We have to talk about how somethings will give Evelyn tummy aches so we can't share all of our foods.

Since we love piggys so much I got us some piggy paint, which is all natural nail polish.  My favorite part about it is the lack of smell.

 In my attempts to get Amelia potty trained I bought her a watch as a prize for peeing on the potty.  It became a source for the battle of the wills with her throwing major tantrums and needing the watch but not wanting to sit on the potty.  Mommy finally caved a little bit and let her wear the watch only when she sat on the potty.

Well she kept trying to go but eventually we both gave up when there wasn't any action.

Evelyn 6 Months

Evelyn's personality is really starting to come out.

She smiles so much her nickname has become smiles.  I wouldn't have guessed that a few months ago.  She's  smiling with her tongue out quite a bit right now.

She's also discovered her toes are a lot of fun to play with.  

She is a very observant baby.  Constantly watching what we are doing and taking in everything around her.

She has been giving me this goofy look when she isn't sure about the things going on around her.

Her doctor is complaining about her being too small, but then saying she is meeting all of her developmental milestones.  I'm choosing to trust my instincts that she is a small but very healthy baby.  She also says mama but it is more of a whine for me to come get her.  When she wants something she will wave both of her hands around almost like signing all done.  She has decided that she really really really does not like tummy time.  When she sees other kids and babies she tries to talk to them.