friends

Bella's new friend, Emmy, that we met over the summer. She's about a month older than Bella, and has a sister who is about 3 months younger than Lucy. They will give each other hugs, whine together, and let their moms have a bit of fun too.

Besides our trip to the zoo, we had two of my co-workers and their families over for a cookout. It was so nice on Saturday, but it gets dark too early now! We ate in almost the dark and had to move inside soon after. Bella and Lucy ate next to Mia, who also goes to daycare with them.

You can always spot Lucy with that pigtail-spike on the top of her head!

Chicken Surprise with a lot of Legs

Yes, Bella is now naming her pictures. "Chicken surprise" is often what Carlo calls anything I make with chicken (I still don't quite get it because its a little guy). And I think you can pick up on the "a lot of legs" part.

Last up north and more

We spent the weekend up north. The last trip up this season. Didn't this summer go by fast? We helped take out some of the dock and the jet ski. We had a decent day on Friday, but Saturday it rained and rained and rained... Bella came down with some sort of cold and eye thingie right before we left home (we thought pink eye at first but it never turned into that). She was fine for the weekend but I had to scramble with getting some drops prescribed for her before our trip up.

Bella and Lucy are getting along better lately. Bella complains when Lucy has to go down for a nap because she wants to play with her! Lucy still doesn't like all of Bella's ideas of play, but it is getting better. Here is one of their wrestling sessions. They were both having so much fun!

The weekend before last we had lunch at Sonny's new restaurant. Check it out if you're near 894 & 60th in Milw! Its called Crunch Time and they have excellent subs/sandwiches. I got treated to an iced-latte and some smoothie along with my sub. yum.

And some breaking news... Bella can ride her bike (w/training wheels) around the block! A big accomplishment for the girl who loves her stroller! Lucy is starting to learn body parts like nose & ears. She's great at pointing, but we're still waiting to hear a few more words out of her though!

just an update

We celebrated Isabel's 1st birthday. She seemed to love her party as I never even heard a whimper out of her! We still can't believe how fast these babies grow up!
Bella and Lucy gave Jordan a workout during the party. Not only did he pull them around in the pool, but he took Bella up and down the little hill in Sal's yard a billion times in that little car!

We had to do something "Harley" this past weekend because you couldn't escape the hype surrounding the 105th Harley celebration. Downtown Waukesha was shutdown the whole weekend and had bands down there so we went to check it out Sunday night. Needless to say, there weren't too many other double strollers there, but it was pretty cool to see all the bikes lined up along all the downtown streets. I really wasn't expecting it to be as big as it was since the 'big' parties were downtown Milw.

I also finished 2 crochet projects: a bunny for Isabel and a winter hat for Bella. Both were pretty easy to do so I hope to make more of each!