Happy Halloween

Well in true Katie and Bella fashion, we are off! We are spending Halloween with my sister and her family. So we are off today. Hoping to meet up with a bunch of friends this weekend too!

So happy halloween…. and bunch of photos to come!

No Pictures

I really hate being limited on my picture uploading. It’s made me kind of not want to blog or share pictures.  I hope this weekend to get caught up on uploading pictures while i’m visiting my sister’s. I also hope to upgrade our internet  sometime this winter so i can upload more.

But her’s a rundown of what we have been up too.

Monday: Josh was home all day, so we ended up running errands in the afternoon. Bella seemed to enjoy it a lot. We also worked on carving pumpkins.

Tuesday: Bella and I went to playgroup. It was dress up day, so everyone came in their costumes. Bella did very well in hers minus the hat. Though she can put the hat on all by herself.  We also visited Daddy at work. Josh has been working at a friends of ours so Bella has enjoy playing out in the yard.  After a late nap and lunch, we played outside for a bit. 

Today: We went to storytime. Bella is really getting into the kids and sort of the story part. I’m really getting into being able to take to other mothers and adults!

All this week i’ve worked on attempting to declutter our house. I”ve already gotten to our linen closet, Bella’s room and half of our kitchen. I know most of th stuff is downstairs but every little gone is a little more room!  Josh and I also got the car port cleaned up, under neath too!

Bella has been thinking she only needs one nap a day and been going to bed then early. This is only kind of nice, as it would be nice for her to stay up a bit so that Josh, Bella and I can hang out a bit.  Also I miss the break to get more work done around the house.  She also likes to “use” a spoon or fork with her meals. She’s good at getting the food off the spoon with her hand and then feeding it to herself.

We also Fingerpainted today and she didn’t try to eat it at all!  She is really growing up!

12 more to go

On thursday I discovered that the first of 4 molars has pop through bella’s gums. So now we are down to 12 more teeth. I do belive that another molar is on it’s way too. So that will mean she will have both top ones first.  I’m guessing that is why she has a cold this week.

A picture update

Since this past week has been a very busy one for us.

MOnday night Book Club

Tuesday Playgroup

Wednesday Storytime

Thursday Mommy’s class

Friday Rain, Rain Rain

We have also been recoving from a cold that we all seemed to have picked up over the weekend due to lack of sleep.

So here are some pictures of what we have done

Sunday we saw some friends and had fun

Then came home and found out our toybox is a great  place to play

 

MOnday was a rough morning

But reading books helped a lot

We went outside and had lots of fun

 

Tuesday we had fun playing with the tic tats from Rachel’s wedding

we also found our fav phone

Learn to play Ball with Daddy and mommy

Discovered the cat toys

Wednesday after storytime we had a jelly sandwich and got it everywhere!

then mommy did a little photoshoot

then because the weather was nice, we did some fall pictures too

 

 

Thursday Aunt Diane came over. She took home a kitten

Friday I found my toybox again, can you find me?

Mommy put my family up on the fridge and now I can look at them all the time

See i have hair!

Play dough

Today was play group. We had a good time dispite i was tired and Bella was in a mood.  I was tired from my book club last night. It was a great time, but I ened up chatting with the other woman til 11:15.  Then I got home and Josh and I talked until at least 12:30. So yeah it was tiring today.

But Bella and i went to Playgroup where they had playdough out. If i wonder if she was ready for it, i wonder no more. She did pretty good with it until she dropped a bit of it and it got all over the bottom of her shoes, then on me and then i was done.

The rest of play group went well. Bella played pretty good, even finding the toy tractor in all the toys. Guess she’s a farmer at heart.

We stopped to visit daddy after playgroup and then came home for a wonderfully short nap. After lunch of Mac N Cheese and yogert smoothie, Bella helped mommy clean up the house.

NOw daddy is home and Bella is outside watching him milk cows and feeding snacks to Chubbers and Cole.

Oh I’ve also posted the wedding pictures up on the Shared site

http://warpinski.shutterfly.com

Feel free  if you got any good shots of Bella, me or Josh to add them.  Some of the faces on us for family shots didn’t look the greatest on my camera :(

The wedding

Well Rachel’s big day finally came. …

On friday Bella and I headed to Sheboygan. We stopped in Oskhosh for lunch with my mom and aunt Dar. Then all four of us hit up the Outlet mall. I got cute new black dress shoes for bella and some good deals at Carter’s.

Then bella and I head for Sheboygan. The trip from Oskhosh wasn’t too bad. We did run into a little rain, but it wasn’t busy at all on the roads.  Finding the hotel was really easy. We manged to get there before Rachel did.  Bella and I got unloaded at the Hotel into our room and chilled for a couple hours before heading with Rachel over to the Church/Hall.

While there Bella got ot run around as everyone was getting ready for Saturday.  It was nice to see everyone again.  I wasn’t much help as keeping a watch on Bella was enough work. But once Grandpa and Grandma got there, Bella went to them and hung out.

Resheral went pretty well. The best man was a joking around guy, so that was nice to ahve someone to joke around with.

After reahseral, Bella and I went back to the hotel and waiting for Tori to arrive. It was nice of her to come up and hang out with us.  Bella took a bath and then went to sleep.. and slept while Tori and I ended up talking for a few hours.

Our Saturday morning started early, but kind of needed too. We did breakfest and ran into Grandpa, Grandma, Rachel, Jen, and Olivia.  Then Grandma took Bella while Tori and I started to get ready for the wedding and packed up. I”m gratful for Tori to be there, as there was no way i was getting my hair to look great. I’m also grafeful for Judy and martin who took bella for me in the morning while i was trying to get ready.

By Ten we arrived at the church. Got ready and the big event happened!I think it went pretty well. Each person of course has their own opinion and such.

Josh and I left at 3:30 as things were winding down. Bella needed a nap bad! So we headed home as Bella slept for a bit.

I’ll end with a few pictures and promise as soon as they are uploaded I’ll post the link

 

Bella update

So it was a nother busy weekend, but i’ll update more on that later.

Bella has been doing some new things that I want to note:

She no longer uses the tray on her high chair, rather she uses her high chair like a booster chair and eats the table with us. 90% of the time she has her own dishware too.  We are working on using spoons and forks. She uses it about 30% of the time.

She climbs up stairs and pretty much everything! She can get off the bed and down when she is up on her rocking chair. we jsut started learning to go down stiars over the weekend.

at the doctor’s they claim she is 25lbs. not so sure about that one.

She goes in for her 15 month doctor’s appointment on Nov 2nd!

We are working on body parts and animal sounds.

Bella Update

Well Bella was diganosed on tuesday with Croup. The doctor gave her a shot of stiroids and sent us home.  So we have been laying low in order to let the medicane work and Bella recover.

This means no storytime or playgroup this week. :(

Bella had a really rought tuesday, but today she has been pretty much back to go ol’ bella. she still has a litle cough, but it only comes and goes.

So i’ve been cleaning and such since we have been home and got Bella’s room rearranged, the entryway cleaned up, my closet now has a floor and three totes of clothes and toys have been moved downstairs.

Tomorrow we are packing to leave for sheboygan on friday morning. We are making it a longer trip with a stop in Oshkosh to meet up with my mom and aunt.  Praying that Bella does ok on both car rides, in the hotel and at the wedding!

I’ll try to update again with some pictures before we leave…but look for a lot after this weekend.

Being sick fun

Being sick isn’t all bad.. there are some good points

 

You get sorbe

And daddy feeds you

Then he lets you try to feed yourself

 You get to take your tempature whenever you want

  You get to eat Banana’s in mommy’s room while watching your favorite show

You play dress up, a pretty dress always makes Bella smile

  you get lots of hugs from mommy!

Farmer girl and her snack cup

Bella love to go to the barn while Josh is milking. what sweetens the deal is she get to have her afternoon snack and drink out there while he milks. She loves to share her snacks with whatever animal will eat them.

  She has a death grip on that snack cup and doesn’t let go.

She looking at the chickens and still has her cup

The next four pictures show how she has to take the top off first before she can eat the food inside the cup

  

Bella also has been allowed to walk around the barn. We keep her in the mangers when she walks with out our hands and slowly the cows are starting to accept her.

 

 

 

Note the snack cup came with her for her walk too.

Cookin’ the Bella way

To help distract bella while I’m trying to make supper, I’ve been giving Bella her own chance to “cook”

I take a bowl fill it with 1/4 a cup of flour, 1/4 cup of sugar and then about 4-5 chocolate chips. She loves mixing it up and digging out hte chocolate chips. It keeps her entertained enought for me to cook :)