November 2011
Jack loves slippers. These happen to be daddy's slippers but they are just as fun!
Snuggle time. These two don't usually slow down at the same time...this day was a fluke. Two little peanuts with their taggie blankies.
On 11/12/11 we went to Great Grandma's house for the annual rake the leaves and have a bonfire party. Here Ashley is with her second cousins!
L to R: Ashley, Izzy, Ayla
Mommy's friend Jill from work gave Ashley 4 flower girls dresses. All were different color and size. Ashley quickly let me know that one was yellow like Belle, one was blue like Cinderella, one was pink like Aurora and one was purple like Rapunzel. For those of you who don't know...those are the names of Disney princesses. Ashley was thrilled that two of the dresses were long enough to reach the floor!
Sweet baby boy! This is Jack dancin'. He puts this fingers up and shakes his booty. Jack is 16 months and 2 days old in this picture.
Attempt #108 to get the kids to pose for a picture together and both look at the camera.
Deck your kid with lots of tinsel, fa la la la la, la la la la. After this picture she went into the kitchen and got a barrette and then clipped the tinsel into the barrette so that she would have long hair just like Rapunzel.
Attempt #109... :) One of these times they will both look at the camera.
The pink flower girl dress. There's a video below of how great these dresses twirl.
The kids dancin, dancin, dancin!!
Ashley & Jack sledding down our hill. We have a great hill for going sledding. This was Jack's first time going sledding. This year Ashley will run up the hill, pulling her sled and will go down by herself too.
Other events in November: Ashley continued with her Tuesday night swimming lessons and ended the class on 11/29. 11/1 Jack has mastered his bye bye wave. 11/6- I took the kids up to the high school swimming pool. 11/7- Jack's communicating and responds to things you ask him to do but says very little. He just grunts and says ma (more). He also does evil eyes and loves to tease. He puckers his lips up for a smootch and then turns his head just as soon as you try to give him a kiss. 11/17- Mommy went to see the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn with a group of friends. 11/19- the kids stayed over night at Uncle Brent, Auntie Lydia and cousin Alex's house. They had a blast. Matt and I went out with some friends for bingo at the Dinnerbel and then back to our place to make dinner and play games. It was a fun night. 11/20 - went to the high school pool with the kids. Jack woke up with a terrible cough around mid-night...a familiar cough... I packed the diaper bag and we headed to Children's Hospital. Sure enough, he had croupe. 11/24 - Happy Thanksgiving! 11/26 - Jack's words: More, Wow, Da. We went to Menomonie to visit Great Grandpa & Grandma Drinkwine. When we got home we put up our Christmas tree, the watched Shrek 4 and when the kids were in bed, we watched Water for Elephants. Productive day! My favorite quote from the day was out of Matt when we were putting up our artificial Christmas tree. To set it up for you, he had just lugged the huge, awkward shaped tree box over from the other garage. Then lugged the box through the front door. Once the box was opened we began our attempts to sort the branches out by size as the colored stickers indicating the ring they fit into on the post have long past fallen off. Matt took in a deep breath and sighed while saying "Ahhh there's nothing like putting together the Christmas tree". Of course that comment was then followed by...next year we are getting a real tree! 11/30- Matt took Ashley on a special date after dinner to go see the Muppets. I was asleep by the time they got home. She had to wake me up to tell me all about Miss Piggy. She also told me that she and I have to go see the movie together too...which we did and as a matter of fact, she got to go see the movie with G & G J too... yep, she's been to see the Muppets in the theater 3 times!
