12 weeks along!

Here is a little pic from my early ultrasound. The ultrasound determined I am due August 29th! We are so excited. Poor Lizzy might have to share her birthday (hers is Aug 26th). I am so behind on blogging so stay tuned for major catch up posts.

Random Cute Moments

Here are some cute pics and video clips from the last couple weeks.



Watch for Lizzy twirling around at the very begining of the montage. She loves to spin around but I only caught the last of MANY spins on video before she got too dizzy and collapsed on the ground. Tyler takes advantage of her inability to get up off the ground and tickles her.

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Tyler's Gym Class

Tyler takes a "kidnastics" course on Saturday mornings. He loves it and loves going with his best friends Sam and Mikayla. These pictures were taken on the open house day when parents are allowed to come watch.

Thanksgiving

When I was little my sister Sarah and I loved to sleep over at my Grandma Robison's house the night before Thanksgiving. What we loved most was setting the table. Grandma would let us choose which China set to use (yes, she has more than one). We would also help with the centerpiece, fold the napkins, choose the goblets, etc. I have a weakness for beautiful dishes and fun table settings. I think it must be because of those days as a little girl setting my Grandma's table, admiring her pretty china, and listening to her stories of when and where she got each set. That is why I was excited to do Thanksgiving at my house this year so I could use my china and make it just like when I was growing up.
Here is how the table turned out:

We ate with our friends the Crosbys, the Hunters, and the Robbins. We had lots of fun and really enjoyed our last Thanksgiving with these guys since next year we'll all be graduated and gone!

The kids had a lot of fun playing in Tyler's room. I love their faces in this picture of them all jumping on the bed.

Emily and Jon's Visit

We had soooo much fun with Emily, Jon, and Abby when they came for the weekend of November 7th. It was a cold rainy weekend so we mostly just hung out, watched movies and ate really yummy food from Trader Joe's. We did make it to the Zoo and out for frozen Custard. Tyler had so much fun with Uncle Jon. Jon is an amazing artist (he has a masters degree in it) and he showed Tyler all kinds of fun things to draw. Emily introduced me to my new love: aged gouda cheese, yummy! Abby is so stinkin' cute. She is so petite with such a cute little run and she talks amazingly well for her age.




Frozen Custard, yummy.

Abby, Tyler, and Lizzy enjoing a bedtime bath toegther

Jon and Abby with ,of course, Lars the Monkey!

Emily and I made bows for our baby girls, isn't she a great bow model! Aawwww. Emily is a natural at bow making-within about 2 minute she had made ones cute enough to sell!

Abby and Lizzy had matching Halloween costumes made by Grammuh Marilyn. Don't those strawberries look good enought to eat? Mmmm

Halloween Festivities

Tyler's school parade. All the little Jr. Kindergarteners looked so cute.

Trick-or-Treating at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The offices of the school get all decorated and the employees dress up to pass out candy to the families of the Med students and Residents. This is our fourth time doing it and I was sad thinking it is probably our last. Tyler was a Knight, a costume Gary and Marilyn got for him at the Shakespeare Festival. Lizzy's strawberry costume got So MANY ooohs and aahs from all who saw her. Marilyn did an amazing job making it. Thanks Grammuh!

Happy Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween. The day was unusually warm and sunny so we went to the park to play and then back home to carve our pumpkins.

That night we had a Halloween party with our closest friends. There is a group of five families who all moved our here for med school at the same time and we all live in the same apartment complex. They are like our "extended family" out here in wisconsin. We always get together for birthdays and holidays and whatever in between. Each of the five families all only had one child when we moved out here and now bewteen the five of us we have fourteen kids! We hardly fit in one appartment anymore. Lucky the weather was nice enough for us to eat outside. We ate yummy soup and of course had our annual doughnut on a string contest.

Then on to Trick-or-Treating! In the past we only have gone indoor trick-or-treating so this was our first time taking the kids house to house at night. As we headed out I had a wave of memories of my childhood trick-or-treating days. Marc Crosby made me laugh when he said "I've been waiting for this day for a long time!" Tyler and Sam Crosby were professionals speeding way ahead of the group going house to house as fast as they could. Andy said they reminded him of he and Marc as kids trying to get as much candy as possible. After the kids were in bed Andy and I watched Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder. A classic hilarious parody of all Frankenstein movies. Andy was a champ going to all the festivities because his research thesis was due the next day so he sacrificed a lot of sleep to have a fun Halloween with his family. He's a great guy and he works really hard.