Thanksgiving

We had a quick trip to Appleton to celebrate Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday of the year. :)

I tried to get Rose excited about it by creating this count-down calendar for her the week before:

I'm not sure she really understood the concept, but she did enjoy drawing smiley faces (aka "happy babies") at the bottom of it!


On Thanksgiving morning (since both Mike and I had to work on Wednesday), we woke up bright and early to hit the road. Rose got bundled up to get in the car, since the "high" for the day was only supposed to be 9 degrees. Blech.

For the big dinner that my parents hosted, I took pictures on my camera - and haven't transferred any of them to my computer yet. But I did take a couple of new baby cousin Aiden:

I also took a couple terrible cell-phone selfies of the three of us:

 

I think Rose's favorite parts of the weekened were:

watching Mickey Mouse videos...

...dancing and drumming with Ninja...

...and playing with Pop Pop.

On the ride home we made our traditional stop at Culver's for some cheesecurds and ice cream.

I'll post some more pictures (likely to be much better ones!) after I get my camera hooked up to my computer again...

three updates

1. Rose's new favorite activity is looking through the photo albums I've created on snapfish over the years. She particularly likes the ones from her first and second years of life, and pointing out all the family members she knows. The hilarious thing is what she does with this picture: 

Every other picture she sees of Anne, she immediately labels (accurately) as her "Trula." But this one she INSISTS is "not Trula. Someone one else. Looks like Trula. Someone in blue shirt." When she didn't believe me, she brought it to Mike. And then last night she brought it to Grammy. She is absolutely adamant, and it cracks me up every time.


2. Last weekend Rose was SO excited to help Mike shovel. I helped by staying inside and taking some pictures through the window. :)

3. Finally, almost a week ago we made the switch to "daytime undies" over night (rather than "nighttime undies," which were pull-up diapers). With one exception, she has woken up dry every morning!!!!  We now call them "big girl undies." I'm so proud of her! (And praying that I don't jinx it by posting this!)

Halloween

(Sorry for the belated post!)

We did a LOT of practicing for Halloween, all in preparation for the two houses we've gone to each year: the one neighbors we know (Brian and Sue) and my friend Marcy's family (about a half-mile away). Rose loved the practicing that we did, as this means that she got candy (a rarity in our house) in the week leading up to Halloween!  So this year, each house went something like this:

Knock knock. Door opens. Silence ensues.
Me/Mike: What do you say, Rose?
Rose: Thank you.
Me/Mike: Yes, what do you say first on Halloween?
Rose (whispering): Trick or treat.
Me/Mike: Can you say it louder so [person who lives here] can hear you?
Rose (yelling): AHHHH!!!!!!

Then we gave up. At least she got the "thank you" part, even if it was out of order. :) And she was THRILLED to get a bunch of candy - thank you to our great neighbor friends! She had a great day.

Halloween storytime at the local library

Rose herself decided to add on her rabbit as part of the costume!

As an aside, the weather has clearly changed a bit since Halloween, as we've had two snowfalls already (last Monday and last Saturday) and we're hitting 20+ degrees below average temperatures. Yuck!



At least it's fun to look back on how cute Rose was for Halloween just a few weeks ago.

Have a great week, everyone!

camera pictures (part two)

A few more photos from the summer/early fall...


Rose still LOVES to take baths:

I have no idea what we were doing here, but I liked the photo:

Mike had several bonfires as he trimmed back all the buckthorn in our backyard:

Rose has started to prefer running as her primary mode of transportation. (Whose kid is this?!?)

Next up...HALLOWEEN!

camera pictures (part 1)

As I mentioned in a recent post, I FINALLY figured out how to transfer pictures from my fancy (non-phone) camera to my "new" computer. Now I have six months of blogging to catch up on!

First off, some pictures from our "multi-purpose burcusa bash" last May. This was a combo part to celebrate Rose's 2nd birthday, Mike's 36th birthday, and Mike's graduation from the teaching program at the U. It was a lovely spring day! (I can't believe it's the end of autumn as I'm posting this!) Rose especially loved her "ice cream happy birthday cake." :)

Next up, we have a photo to commemorate day #1 of potty training. (Did I ever post a summary of the amazing job Mike did with this? If not, does anyone want me to type it out?)

And last up (for today), we have a couple candids of Rose from the summer, back when she had looooong hair. And was still teething. It's amazing what a difference just a couple months can make!

More photos to come, but I need to end my screen time now or I won't be able to fall asleep at my 9pm bedtime. :)

#TBT

In honor of "throwback Thursday," here are two pictures from when Rose was just a little, tiny munchkin. :)

hump day

Here are a couple photos to get you through hump day!

A couple days ago I finally figured out how to get photos off my camera and onto my "new" computer. So one of these days I'll be posted "good" pictures (i.e., not cell-phone pictures) from the past six months. Stay tuned!