Talking, Singing, and Just Being Silly!

It's been awhile since I posted any videos of Nicole and I know that the family really loves when I do, especially the Grandmas, so here are a couple.

Nicole is really talking A LOT now, pretty much non-stop!

But she seems to be a little camera shy because she won't say much when I put the camera in front of her. Here is a little bit of what I

have been able to get on video.

Nicole's always been a big fan of music, singing, and dancing. Here is a little clip of her singing the Elmo song and doing a little dance at the end.

Now a days when you ask Nicole to smile this is what you get....

She is a silly girl!

Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

The family always gathers at our house for the holidays and this year has been no exception. We love to do the cooking and we love feeding everyone. We always have a lot of fun and tons of laughs when we get together.

Dave, as usual, cooked the turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. But he still got in as much football as he could with his dad and my dad and brother. Amber hung out in the kitchen a lot of the time with me while I cooked and helped to watch the kids.

Here's a peek at some of our oh so yummy dinner!

Halloween!

Halloween was soo much fun this year! We took Nicole out for her first Trick or Treat and she did awesome! She loved it. She was knocking on doors and quickly learned how to say "Trick or Treat". I hadn't been Trick or Treating for about 12 years and I loved seeing her enjoy it as much as I used to. But she may have enjoyed it a little too much. She's been asking us to go Trick or Treating all weekend and just doesn't understand why we can't go again.

Amber and Zaiden came Trick or Treating

with us in our neighborhood.

Nicole loved having her buddy Zaiden

as a Trick or Treat partner.

Fall!!!

Fall leaves are so fun!

Toe Nails

While I was gone last night Dave decided to paint Nicole's toe nails!

Now my little baby girl has Red toe nails!

Paint!

Painting has begun in the basement!

He totally looks ready for Halloween!

Colors!

Nicole has been learning her colors and she's getting so good at them. She still makes a mistake every once in awhile, but I think she does pretty darn good for an 18 month old. (Actually I don't know when kids usually learn their colors but 18 months seems pretty young to me.)

New Car!

So we finally got our settlement from the insurance last Friday and got our new car on Saturday! Everything worked out perfectly. We got what we thought we deserved for our stolen car from the insurance and found this car, on ksl, for a steal! Our car that was stolen was a 2002 Mazda Protege5 with 81,000 miles on it and our new car is a 2005 Mazda Tribute with 55,000 miles, and they both get about the same great gas mileage. From what the insurance gave us on the Protege we were able to pay for this Tribute in full(we had paid the Protege off earlier this year), pay for the taxes and registration, and still had some left over! Everything really ended up working in our favor.

So a big thanks to the car thief!

(No, really, I still think you suck)

Halloween Preview

I bought Nicole her

Halloween costume today.

She had so much fun wearing it.

I wasn't sure if she'd enjoy Halloween

and dressing up this year but

I think she's going to

have tons of fun

....and so will I!

30 Days to go!

Sleep Talking

I thought I'd share a funny story that happened last night. Dave has moments of sleep walking and sleep talking every once in awhile. It can be pretty amusing sometimes. Last night was one of those nights.
Dave had gone to bed a little early because he wasn't feeling well, at about 9:30. I went into our room just after 10:00 after cleaning up some cat puke(gross, I know, but it happens often having two 14 1/2 year old cats). I had a rag and tossed it into the laundry hamper.
Dave popped up into a sitting position and asked: "What's that?"
Me: "I just cleaned cat puke."
Dave: "What?"
Me: "It was a rag I used to clean cat puke."
Dave: "Oh"
Dave lays back down and I crawl into bed.
Dave: "You confused me."
Me: "OK....sorry."
....Short pause....
Dave: "I guess it's not that important in Wisconsin."
Me: "What?"
Dave: "The yellow pages."
Me: giggle "What?"
Dave: "Oh, I guess I'm not making sense to you right now."
Me: "Um" giggle "The yellow pages aren't that important in Wisconsin?"
Dave: No Response
Me: "Ok, good night."
Dave: "Good night."
As I turned over I was quietly cracking up. I realized he was more asleep than awake.
This morning when I saw him I asked him "So the yellow pages aren't very important in Wisconsin?" and he just started cracking up and said "I don't know, I was tired." I was pretty surprised that he remembered.
I don't know what he possibly could have been dreaming about, all I know is it was pretty darn funny!

The Silly to the Annoying

Kids can be so silly and cute sometimes...

And they can also turn simple things, like a plastic chair, into one of the most annoying things ever...