Fabulous Fall

With the warm weather we have been able to not only go outside during the day, but at night too!  It's been a busy, but fun fall and the girls are getting excited for Halloween.

Vivian continues to surprise us and make us laugh.  She jokes a lot, but remains fairly unpredictable.   She loves lima beans, and, since the rest of us don't, she eats everyone's.  A few days ago, she was singing in bed and woke up most the house.  When Kara and Nina went to get her out of bed, they found that Pip was singing "Let it Go" in her sleep.

 

Nina rediscovered the photo booth

Hanging out with Uncle Jake on his work trip

We finally made a designated coloring area after tiring of finding markers, crayons, and pencils all over the house.  The girls really enjoy the spot and their coloring is fun to see.  Nina likes to write her name on most of her work and can do it all on her own.  She makes a lot of rainbows, people, and flowers.

 

Post #300

It's been a while since we've blogged and it seems like we've forgotten a ton of funny quotes, but we've got some photos anyway.  Work has been busy and it was sweet/cute to hear Nina tell Ben after conferences, "I missed you, daddy."  After a not-so-sweet slapping incident, Vivian got put on time-out and said 'sorry' from her crib.  Ben told her that she needed to say sorry to Nina's face and she responded with, "Sorry to your face, Nina."

Vivian's current favorite band is Guster, but both girls are enjoying the new weezer album.  In addition to being obsessed with babies, Vivian's favorite activity is pretending to be a baby.  Nina continues to be a bit better with sleeping now that she has her sticker goals.  She got her fingernails painted and is working her way towards a Frozen magazine with posters.

Kara's birthday

Waiting patiently for the bouncy house

First family bonfire

Someone is excited for dance lessons

 

We had a nice, but too short, trip to Nebraska for Josh & Ami's wedding.  The girls did a great job on the ride and we only stopped twice on the way down and once on the way back.  Nina did a lot of drawing and we've been impressed with her work - birds, spooky trails, ice cream, and spiders (which scare Vivian - "Nina spiders scare me").  We enjoy that she writes Nakagaki on most of her work lately.  We've all been fighting slight colds, with Kara's hearing being affected.  So when Ben shouted about an email from Nana, Kara responded, "who's Anna?"  Nina chimed in, "No, not Anna, Nana, your mom!"

"Pip, want to snuggle with me?"  -  "okay"

In full swing

We've hit our stride with school and work, and the girls have been sleeping a bit better lately.  Kara has a sticker chart for Nina for every good night of sleep, and we hit our first reward today.  Nina got to go get her toenails painted and loved the experience.  Pip was sad to be left out, until she realized she got ice cream instead.  Nina has been busy at school with projects and coloring, she had a field trip to the apple orchard, and has fun deciding what to bring for show and tell.  When asked about her thoughts on Nina's schooling, Pip said, "I little bit miss Nina."

We couldn't believe our fortune to have such a warm week.  We made it to the chutes and ladders park, a few other fun parks, the zoo, como, the Homecoming game, and even got to play in the sprinkler.  It was a nice change of pace to have the football teams playing so well that we could go outside and count on them winning - Go Gophers/Huskers/Vikings!

Friday Night Lights        -----        Go Bears!

 

Summer in September    ----    Story time at the zoo