Fall/Winter is Here!

As many of you know, Dave was in Hong Kong for 11 days. While he was gone, he missed a lot of the beautiful colors and smells of the Fall. He also missed the first snow of the year (a light dusting). I know he will see many more of those soon enough:) Here are some pictures of the first snow, our (late) Fall walk though the backyard, and the kids at a Halloween party!

Here is our walk in the back. I am sure a few weeks earlier would have been more beautiful, but we had a lot of fun!
Dave and the kiddos:)

This tree had a huge hole in it so Dave wanted us all to take a picture with our heads in it. The kids were not too sure about it, but they made cute pictures.

Yup...even I made the pictures.


Then as we were heading back, this animal (which we later found out was a pheasant) followed us all the way home..at least a 1/2 mile. I was a little afraid it might be mean and peck us or something, but it just followed us all the way to our house. Isaiah thought we were going to keep it as a pet.

The kids were invited to a Halloween Party at the Orchard Park Country Club by my friend Jen. It was so cute. They had great decorations, music, dancing, and food...all geared towards the children. Of course Isaiah didn't take a nap that day because he was so excited his Dad was home and he wanted to go to sleep so bad. Poor thing.

Lighting McQueen!

Our friend Jen and her daughter Maddie! She was the cutest Bumble Bee ever!! Her little dress bopped up and down as she danced. It was adorable!

Isaiah dancing.

Our little ladybug! She only wore this for about 2 seconds...long enough to take this picture. But wouldn't you know...the next day she wanted to wear them all day!

And her costume...she would not put her arms in the sleeves...I had to put it under her armpits so she would wear it.

Baby Steps...

I finally did it! I got rid of the bottle! It hasn't been as bad as I thought.

When I went to Hope's 18 month check up they told me to wean her off and I thought ok I will try. They told me to water down her milk a little more everyday and then she wouldn't want it. Well...I just went out to the store and she wanted this princess sippee cup so I put milk in there. She LOVES her princess cup and hasn't complained about the bottle.

On the other hand...Isaiah was still on the bottle. With them being so close in age...he wouldn't have understood (at 16 months) that Hope could have it and he couldn't. He will not drink milk out of any sippee cup (believe me I tried!). He still asks for it at night before bed but that is about it! He did have a couple of accidents the past two days but they say when you make a change in your routine they may regress with potty training a little....but he is fine today(totally potty trained awhile ago). Yeah what a relief! I wanted to get rid of the bottles before we travel in a few weeks. They are such a pain to drag everywhere.

Now....the next baby steps that have to be made are...Isaiah sleeping in his own bed and getting rid of the paci for both of them. Not quite sure I am ready yet:)

What We Have Been Doing Here:)

Here is a slideshow of what we have been up to here in Buffalo. We have been having so much fun with the kids! They are so cute together and starting to play better with each other. Sometimes they are so funny they have us cracking up! (I stole this website from my sister-in-law Carrie because the slideshow she did was so cute. She always find cool stuff on the web for her blog...where do you find it all??) This is of our times at Notre Dame, the great pumpkin patch, and the zoo!


My Montage 10/17/08

They Did It!!

Kristine and Scott got married AND...Isaiah and Hope walked down the aisle. Here is a slideshow of all the pictures I took. There are a lot of them! Enjoy!