Hand Me Downs

The coat Emma Claire is wearing was mine at her age - she wore it to brunch at the Women's Club last weekend. Emma Claire thought that was pretty neat. Hard to believe I was ever that size!

Womens Club Photos

Birthdays: Tuna and Bean

Emma Claire: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Tuna and Beeean. Happy birthday to you". (they are 2 :-)

"Up Shoes"

Emma Claire had a few good one-liners during the Macy's Parade last week. She had on her ballet shoes for her dancing most of the time. She needed her "pom-poms" as soon as she saw the cheerleaders (her pom-pom is a gold and maroon Gophers pom from a game earlier this year - hey, there's an idea for Christmas...). She asked brad to "Hold me up like the cheerleaders" - which thrilled both of us!

When the Rockettes did their thing, Emma Claire quickly said "oh, I need my up shoes" and ran back to her room and returned with the red snow white high heels for her dancing - can't be a Rockette in flats!

I Love My Feet

Arnold's new "thing" is holding onto his feet and rolling from side to side - so cute :-)

Uggggh

Just erased all my photos on our shutterfly site on accident! All it took was one click of my mouse and...POOF. Working on getting them all back up - a fairly easy fix, just takes some time. They go back to 2008, so it will take a bit and the links on my previous posts may not work, but I intend to fix it. Soooo mad at myself!!!

Arnold - 4 Months

Hard to believe it has been 4 months! Arnold is growing quickly. He is such a sweet little guy. He has found his voice and enjoys using it. Lots of squeals and cooing. He likes to talk back to you. Many, many smiles with two sweet dimples. Found his feet and loves them - even managed to get one in his mouth yesterday.

Loves his daddy. Brad was in the den working on the TV this weekend and Arnold was on his play mat. Every time Brad would go out of Arnold's view, he would fuss. When Brad came back in his view, he would smile and talk to him.

No more rolling from back to front lately, but Arnold will tolerate being on his tummy and even pushes up some on his hands and elbows. He will roll from tummy to back.

Any time Arnold does something new, Emma Claire likes to run over to him, get in his face, and praise him profusely "we're so proud of you, Arnold", "that's so good, Arnold", "good job, buddy", "Brad, look at Arnold"!

Still sleeping in our room and not through the night. Thinking we will make the move to his crib as a New Year's Resolution, although the transition will be harder on me than him - he continues to grow and time moves forward all too quickly.

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Happy Turkey Day 2010

We had Thanksgiving Day this year at Elissa and Adrian's, since we did it at our place last year.

The tradition has become that everyone bring a "traditional" dish or two. I made mom's cheese grits (that never turn out as good as when she makes them), mom's broccoli casserole (same as the grits - just doesn't taste the same), green bean casserole and turkey. This was my first attempt at a turkey. I found a Southern Living recipe that I could follow, studied it for a few days, to make sure I wasn't missing anything and dove in on Thursday morning. All said and done - it turned out really well, much to my relief!

We went over to Elissa's early afternoon (after the big parade was over, of course) to help cook and for the kids to play. Emma Claire and Quinn are peas in a pod. They started playing before lunch at our house and moved the party over to Quinn's. They spent most of the day in dress up mode and didn't stop until it was time to leave after dinner.

Rick, Diane and Marjorie (with candied sweet potatoes, pumpkin and pecan pies in tow) joined us. We had a very happy Thanksgiving.

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