Minnetonka Orchard

 

This past week we ventured out to Minnetonka Orchard with our friends Hazel and Michelle to pick apples, eat apple donuts, play in the pumpkins, drink apple cider, and pet some farm animals. Such a fun day! I am loving fall in Minnesota!

 

Choo-Choo!

Playing on the train

Pumpkin patch

Love my baby girl to pieces!

Our fun friends, Hazel and Michelle!

Checking out the "Bahhhh" sheep

Thanks for the fun day girls!

Okay mom...it is nap time!

 

 

My sweet apple!

11 Months Old

We are almost to the BIG birthday!  This month has been all about perfecting the crawl, saying "Doggie" over and over and over, getting picky about what we are eating, clapping hands, giving high fives, blowing kisses, giving hugs, and wreeking havoc on Nellie's life.   

Loves to "chew" on the binkie

The days of sitting still are over!

11 Months Old!

Happy Girl!

Full of smiles!

Using my own kick stand!

Steps?  She has mastered the first two!

Are you serious mom?

Trip to see Mimi!

Brandon afforded me the great luxury to have the weekend to myself in Minneapolis.  Now before you think that this weekend was filled with pedicures, pampering, and eating chocolates in bed for 3 days (I wish), I spend 80% of the time studying for my Minnesota MPJE.  While I was slaving away on my books, Brandon took Lainey on a road trip to Kansas to go see Grandma Kathy (Mimi) and Great Grandma Walker.  Brandon also got to catch up with old friends, be an "extra" in an upcoming independent film (The Jayhawkers), and of course buy Lainey many KU outfits (without my permission). 

Sharing a laugh with GG Walker

She gets this look from her daddy!

Brandon and our sweet GG Walker

Eating like a big girl!

GG Walker is so much fun to play with!

Three generations!

Laineybug and Ryan.  Hopefully he didn't tell her any secrets about the
shenanigans that B and him caused over the past 30 years! 

We love our Mimi!

Especially when Mimi puts on silly glasses!

   

10 Months Old!

Crazy Hair!

Crawling and scooting around everywhere!

This was the only picture I could get of Lbug with her 10 month sticker!

Playing with my favorite toy!

Big Week of Firsts!

So last week was a big week for Miss Lainey.  I could hardly keep up with the milestones! 

After a long 9 1/2 months, she is FINALLY sleeping through the night.  FINALLY!  I don't remember what it is like to get more than 5 hours of sleep at a time.  I can't believe I have been surviving on that sleep schedule for so long.  I don't know what the trick was, but I am glad that it happened.  Mainly for my sanity and well-being.  :o) 

We now officially have to watch the potty mouth as someone is talking!  Lainey said her first word other than ma-ma, da-da, or bah bah.  Do to the incessant need of holding her sippy cup over the edge of her highchair and dropping it a gazillion times a day, I always say "Uh Oh!" every time it happens.  Someone picked up on that rather quickly and now will drop anything and everything to say "Uh Oh!"  It is too cute. 

Finally, someone decided that she was tired of scooting backwards and is crawling forward.  I thought that Lbug would never be a crawler and instead would go straight into walking, however she had other plans.  The first day was rather slow and just a couple of scoots forward.  Fast forward two days later and she spanned the entire living room in the matter of seconds.  I think that my life just got turned upside down. 

Tomorrow is her 10 month birthday!  Where is time going? 

Twins!

This past week, Jared and Julie came from Phoenix to spend some time in Minneapolis.  It was so great to see them as it had been since Lainey's 3 week birthday that we had seen them both.  Thankfully, Mimi also came up for the week and helped watch Lainey while the four of us got to explore Minneapolis.

 

Jared found awesome seats for the Twins game vs. Baltimore.  Front row, first base side, just to the right of the Twins dugout.  Could not have asked for a better night either!   

Great night for some baseball!

Batter Up!  My boy...Joe Mauer. 

Julie got caught double fisting beers and hotdogs.

The race around Target field by the mascots. 

Great seats! 

Lets Go Twins!

Taking it all in.

Target Field!

Take me out to the ball game...

Warming up!  Baseball butts drive me nuts!  :o)

Lining up for the star spangled banner!

The happy couple!

Who is this guy?

Fingerpainting Friday!

Today was a first for Miss Lainey.  We decided to give her creative artist hat a try today and fingerpaint. 

My little Indian

She decided to be three dimensional and add texture (grass) to her work of art.

Budding artist in the making.

Don't interrupt my creative thought process mom. 

I think that she had more paint on her and myself than the paper.  :o)

The masterpiece itself!

Next we had to wash off in the pool and splash around

And we watched Miss Peyton go up and down the slide taking her baby on a ride each and every time! 

Happy Friday the 13th!