Sunday, November 8th

Here is a picture of Isabel hanging out in Henry's room as I take pictures of him. Even though all these pictures are indoors, we did get outside on this 70-degree day, but she didn't want me taking pictures of her outside. She actually hid in the closet when I told her I was bringing my camera outside. We went outside and were bug hunters. We did capture a daddy long legs and put it in her bug house. And we blew a bunch of bubbles.

Isabel thought that Larry needed to look pretty and put some of her necklaces on him. If you look closely you will see he has a pearl necklace on too.

Isabel really loves her brother. She wants to hug & kiss him all the time.

Yesterday

She had preschool yesterday, but seems to be getting stir-crazy when she is used to go-go-going all the time with mom and now we have been at home so much this week. Since we weren't going out to playgroups or having playdates really this week, she has started to ask me to set some up.

Today, she did have one with her friend Cole and tomorrrow she will have one with her friend Amelia. And todat daddy took her to gymnastics open gym & I took her grocery shopping. When I asked her how her day was today at supper she said, "I had a really good day."

The past couple of days she has been interested in knowing more about dinosaurs. I told her we would take her to the Science Museum so she could see the bones & skeleton. Of course, now she wants to go tomorrow, but it will have to wait a week or 2 I think.

Win a Melissa & Doug Kitchen

I signed up to try to win this Melissa & Doug kitchen.You can sign up too! Isabel would love this. We love all our Melissa & Doug products and have a lot of them.

Reading to Her Brother

Isabel likes to read to Henry. It's very sweet. she picks out books that she basically has memorized and reads them to him. I also bought her a basket and filled it with a bunch of new books that I could read to her & Henry while I nurse him, but she likes to read to him just as much as she wants me to read to both of them.

Happy Halloween (Belated)

Keeping up with updating blogs for both kids gets to be a lot of work. I actually had the collages made yesterday, but didn't get them up here since I decided to institute an earlier bed time.

Andy took Isabel out to TOT at a couple of neighbors' houses, we just took Henry over to one of them. It was too chilly & windy to be walking to other places with him. Isabel let him borrow one of her TOT bags and carried it for him. He also took her over to the outlet mall where they were doing TOTing and Old Navy had special events for Halloween going on inside the store (see picture below). Then they went to Caribou Coffee to pick up BOGO smoothies and Taco Bell for free tacos (plus bought more for supper), and finally McD's to use her Halloween coupon for free apple dippers. Gotta love the business freebies for Halloween! Saved me from having to plan out dinner on our first night home and saved us some money too!

Here is Isabel at our neighbor Cindy's house going Trick or Treating.

Daddy took these picture of Isabel at the Monster Bash at Old Navy at the Outlet Mall.

She's Soooooo Three!

I think the only thing that would make this picture more THREE than if I was taking a picture her right now as "naked girl princess". Her sock got wet and all of a sudden she had to take off all her clothes and don a princess crown.

This picture was taken at supper. We had waffles and she thought it was more fun to wear her waffle as a bracelet or rings rather than eat it and of course she had to get dressed up in some dress up clothes to eat.

Isabel Hold Henry

We came this morning and Isabel was super excited to be able to hold her brother. She wasn't very interested in sharing him with grandpa M., who had not gotten a chance to hold him yet. She is very excited we have Henry and loves him very much already, but having to share us will be a struggle for her.

Preschool Halloween Party

Parents were invited to come to preschool today for the last hour for their Halloween party to see all the kids dressed up and watch them parade around the school, have snack, hear a story, and watch them do some songs.

It is interesting watching the kids and seeing who they gravitate towards as friends. Even at age 3 they quickly develop friends. This is actually the first time Isabel gets to pick out friends that mommy didn't. Granted, several of the kids in her class we alreadydo some playdates with or she has gymnastics class with. But there is one girl in her class that I didn't know the parents of that she seems to really like and has asked me for a playdate with several times. Her parents came today, so I was able to introduce myself and give her my contact info. Turns out that their little girl only talks about Isabel at home. So, sometime after the baby is born we will set up a playdate with them.


As we watched them act out the motions to "Going on a Bear Hunt", both mommy & daddy couldn't help take notice that Isabel has daddy's preference for choreographed dance, which is to not do it. She would do it if she looked over at me and I would do it.