Our Little Pumpkin - Oct 26

Abby & Joe worked together to carve our pumpkins for Halloween.


FIRST, they were creative with the pumpkins...Then it became creative photography time...

Here is the Mount Rushmore of Pumpkin Heads:

And to keep it a little more Minnesota...here is a Pumpkin Totem Pole!

And then Abby held the pumpkin on dad's head!

AFTER photos - 1st Haircut ~ Oct 20

Simply marvelous, darling!

Abby's first haircut - Oct 19

After much deliberation...the time for the first haircut was upon us.

Abby's hair had gotten so long...but it was taking on a touch of the "rat-tail" look...a la early 90's skater dudes.

First Abby watched Daddy get his hair cut to get an idea of how things would play out. (Note...This was the longest she stood still in many many moons.) She kept watching her dad's face to make sure he was having fun.


A BEFORE photo of the mini fe-mullet.
Abby got to sit in a fancy car chair, and watched VeggieTales while getting her hair done.

She seemed to enjoy the process and did a good job of tilting her head when she was asked to...she also treated her stylist to an acapella version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
At the end, her stylist even sprayed some "princess sparkles" in her hair...very fancy!!

I.O.U. an AFTER photo...will post ASAP. It looks really great! All clean and straight...like a little woman.

Pumpkin Patch Oct 12

We spent Sunday morning with our friends the DesJardins and the Steffensmeirs picking out pumpkins.

Abby wanted to find a little pumpkin.

There was a little village of Halloween cutouts that Abby got to cruise around in. Here she is attending "Ghoul School".
Abby with her friends Haley & Hannah.

Fire Hall Open House - Oct 11

October is Fire Safety month...so the FLFD had an open house so that kids could come explore the firehall and the BIG YELLOW fire trucks.

Abby got her own Fire Chief hat.

Abby & Joe got to climb into the big tanker truck.

The firemen were doing kiddie fingerprints.
Abby pretended to drive this big rig.


We topped the day off with a hot dog for lunch...who could ask for more!

Fall Yard Work: Oct 11

Most of the year, we feel very lucky to have big beautiful trees in our yard.

However...in the fall, the big pine trees that edge one side of our house begin to drop their needles and blanket our yard. We have to clean 'em up, or else our grass is toast the next year.

Joe & Abby spent Saturday morning doing the first of several pine needle clean up patrols.

It's not ALL work...

...it's kind of FUN too!

MN Childrens Museum ~ Oct 4

Abby & I spent a fantastic morning exploring the MN Children's Museum this weekend.

We both had a BLAST!

In the Habitot Gallery Abby pretended to be a frog on a lily pad.

And she peered down an ice hole at a big fishie.
She also pretended to be a turtle.


In the Our World exhibit, Abby took a turn driving the Metro Transit bus. She shopped for produce in the market.
And then took a turn at being the Checkout Girl...

...kind of like her mom back in the days of Leuken's Village Foods!

I questioned her on how one bottle of tide would ring up as $600 dollars...

and she got a little flustered.

Abby created a visual masterpiece in the Creativity Room.

It is now prominantly displayed on our dishwasher at home.

We also made a hat with boingy antennaes out of recycled paper.

In the World Works exhibit, Abby and a few other industrious children manned their posts in a make-believe warehouse. They worked as a team to move boxes through a long two-story conveyor belt.
There was also an entire room full of water activities...Abby was soaked up to the elbows,

but had so much fun...who cares?

Naughty Daddy! Sep 28, 2008

Saturday night I tried a new recipe...which is always a dangerous undertaking in my kitchen. This recipe was for a chocolate cake that you microwave in a big coffee mug. Yummmmmm. I made one for me and one for Joe. Joe was not too impressed by the rich & gooey concoction and didn't get past the first few bites. At the end of the evening, I scraped his discarded giant lump of chocolate into the trash can.

The next morning Abby went to throw something in the kitchen grabage, and turned to me with big worried eyes and said, "Mommy! Daddy take big poopy in garbage!!"

It took me a minute to figure out what she was even talking about, but when I peeked into the trash and saw the big brown glop of chocolate cake, I couldn't stop laughing!!!