Someone's in the kitchen with Cleo . . .

Saturday Morning Fun

Cleo's first time painting! 

She's not quite a Rembrandt but more of a Jackson Pollock! 

Pumpkin Patch 2011

we hit the pumpkin patch yesterday! our annual trek to elk mound, wisconsin with amanda, libby, and ella.

 it was a beautiful day . . . high 80's! and cleo only threw herself onto the ground a couple times! 

cleo side note: on the way to the pumpkin patch cleo kept saying "punkins! punkins!" and on the way back to the car she was saying "bye bye punkins, bye bye punkins"

a weekend in the life of a 10 year old and his bestfriend. . .

F R I D A Y  N I G H T started with this . . .  

S A T U R D A Y  brought this . . .

S U N D A Y  N I G H T  they ended up here . . .

this little gal {part II} . . .

upon dropping off Cleo at the 4 corners, grandma told Cleo, "grandma has had enough of you for one weekend, Cleo." Cleo took one look at grandma and said, "see ya!"

likes to go to bed with a bottle and her two rhinos

calls out for sully as soon as she gets up

can say her own name along with billie, jerry, hallie, phoebe, kevin and darcy

tries to sing along to twinkle twinkle little star

still loves Mickey Mouse

has a new fondness for "me-mo" ie Nemo

likes to take her clothes off

when we ask her how she is doing she says "good"

dropped her off at kids care at the gym last week and she walked right in and said "hi guys"

points to her scabs or other people's scabs and says "ow"

Ridgeland Fair 2011

Once again,  we made our way to Ridgeland, Wisconsin for our annual cheeseburger lunch and front row seats to the parade. {henry was with benny}  


A few pictures from the day . . .


Hallie and Phoebe were so good to Cleo . . .  ride after ride they never complained!

Kevin's famous ride pose . . .

Just hanging out at the parade . . . 

Cleo loved the fishing game . . .

side note: grandma billie and auntie tricia both grew up in ridgeland, wisconin.

fourth grade

doesn't this look like a kid who is EXCITED for fourth grade?

after realizing that he didn't have ONE buddy in his class this is basically what he looked like when he got home too! unfortunately, school has never been on henry's top 10 list and that did not help.

he does have a great teacher though; mr. behnke. he had him in second grade too!

he'll come around . . . i hope it's sooner than later!