Felicity likes to play with my iPhone now and one of her favorite apps is DoodleBuddy. This is her latest creation.
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Felicity’s Doodle
Oct 29
Lil’ Yogis
Oct 3
Becky goes to a yoga class three times a week at the Pointe of Grace dance studio, the same place Felicity goes for her dance class. The other night we had dinner at the place right by the studio and Becky brought her yoga clothes to change into. Nobody else showed for the class, so Ms. Kim (the owner) and Ms. Amy (the teacher) said the girls could stay. Felicity likes to do yoga but Michaela doesn’t have the patience yet. But she did do a few poses with them!
I posted some photos a while ago but I know some people don’t check the photos page, just the home page. Go take a look at August and Felicity’s 4th birthday.
Felicity started pre-school today at our church’s school, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. She will go every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. She was very excited to go and I think that it helped that we went into her classroom last Friday for about an hour and met the teachers and got to play in her classroom. She was hooked! She was very cute today, here are some of the highlights:
* On our way to school she told me “Mommy, if Michaela does anything cute while I am at school make sure you grab the camera and record it so I can see it when I get home.”
* Once at school we put her lunchbox in her cubby and headed into her classroom while holding my hand, but as soon as she walked through that door she squeezed my hand very tight and only let go to give her teacher a hug and find her name tag.
* Michaela seemed a little confused when I put her in her car seat and Felicity wasn’t in hers. She looked back at the school doors and then at me and said “Fa Fi?” (her word for Felicity). Then when I got her up from her nap to go get Felicity, I asked her, “do you wan to go get Felicity?” She got excited and still 1/2 asleep yelled, “FA FI!”
* When I walked into her classroom to pick her up, she saw me, got a big smile on her face and came racing towards me! Too cute!
She had a great day and really likes it. Her teachers Mrs. LaFevre and Mrs. Hoffman, are terrific and you can tell from the instant that you meet them that they love their job and truly love the kids they teach. It is going to be a great year!
Fancy
May 2
Aunt Jane was the one who introduced Felicity to the Fancy Nancy series of books by Jane O’Connor. Nancy is a very unique little girl who loves to dress up and do all things fancy, even using fancy words. The illustrations are great too. Apparently the illustrator, Robin Preiss Glasser was a ballerina at one time, and most of her illustrations of Nancy have her in some ballet type pose.
Anyway, in the first book (pictured here), Nancy laments how its tough being the only fancy one in the family. One day she gets the idea to offer free fancy lessons to her mom, dad and little sister. 
They get all dressed up and go out to eat at some little diner or something. Well, Felicity had been bugging us to go out to a “fancy dinner” for a while, and last weekend we finally did it!
Felicity wore all of her Fancy Nancy stuff that she got from Uncle Kenny, plus a few other fancy accessories! Mom even put a little makeup on her. She picked out all of our outfits and then we went to Panda Express, oooh la la! It was fun, and some of the pictures are really classic. I think they capture the stage that Felicity is at right now. So enjoy a few of my favorite photos below, or check out the rest in the April 2009 photo set.
We haven’t posted in a while…yadda yadda…as usual we’re playing catch up with the blog…you know the drill.
Last month Michaela turned one! What a wonderful year it has been, and we are all thoroughly enjoying the rapid pace of her development now…it seems like every day she tries some new sound/word, takes more steps, plays new games.
On the morning of her birthday (3/13) we gave her her present from us, her very own princess chair! She loves having one just like her sister does. That night we had a little practice round for her birthday party and gave her a cupcake…also a pretty big hit.
Then the next day, we had a party at our house. The photos are up if you want to view all of them, but here are a few highlights.
Becky’s 30th birthday is coming up on the 21st of December (mark your calendars!). It’s always so hard to throw her a party with her friends because everyone is usually busy around the holidays. Sooooo…I decided to throw her a surprise party over a month early. I called it her 29.9th party!
I have to thank Angie and Lisa for getting her out of the house for me and helping to make suere it all went off ok. And also I appreciate Aubrey and Beth and Ted (and Kendall) making the trip to 
Tucson for the party as well as for their help with the last minute party prep. And of course Michele, thanks for picking up the cake and some party supplies etc. Sorry Ken was under the weather and you didn’t get to hang around for the part. 
I think its safe to say she was completely surprised! We had a reat time. Check out the rest of the photos.
Our little crawler
Nov 19
Michaela has officially started to crawl. It started on Thursday night with just a few steps and now it mad crawling steps. She can crawl all the way down our hallway now! Today she even started to pull her self up to a standing position without any help from us. She is getting good. Here’s a video of her crawling a little bit. Enjoy.
Happy Halloween!
Nov 3
We hope everybody had a safe and wonderfully spooky Halloween!! We had a great time celebrating Michaela’s first Halloween, even though she had no idea what was going on. Felicity was Princess Aurora (aka Sleeping Beauty), of course . . . did you expect anything else?! Michaela was a flower or according to big sister she was “fowler.” Mommy and Daddy raided Felicity’s dress up chest at the last minute to find something to wear, sort of. Mommy was also a flower and daddy was a bunny. Someone asked if he was a Playboy bunny, aren’t Playboy bunnies girls? What where they thinking?
Michaela didn’t really know what was going on. I carried her for a little bit then she rode in the stroller the rest of the night. She mostly just sat there and chewed on her costume. She did pretty good. Felicity was her usual shy self!! She didn’t say Trick-or-Treat, okay I take that back. A couple of houses got a “trick” and maybe 1 or 2 houses got a full “Trick-or-Treat,” but most houses got nothing!!! Sometimes she was so shy she wouldn’t even reach out with her bag to get the candy. Maybe next year she will be better . . . maybe little sister will have to drag her around to the houses. 
Oh well, she still had fun dressing up and this year she got to wear make-up! Here’s our Halloween night:
Don’t worry, that’s lipstick on Michaela’s forehead, thanks to her sister and her constant kissing!
Michaela’s Day & Pumpkins
Oct 29
On Sunday the 19th we had a “Baby Party” for Michaela. We didn’t have a baby shower for her when I was pregnant with because we didn’t know if she was a boy or a girl. Either way we didn’t need baby stuff since we already had everything from when Felicity was a baby, but if Michaela would have been a boy we would have needed boy clothes. So, we decided not to have anything until after she was born to see what gender the baby would be. Since she was a girl, we needed nothing for her, but we eventually decided that she and her new life needed to be celebrated, hence the baby party. We had it at the park next to our house. It was a beautiful day, a little on the warm side, but beautiful none the less. We had lots of friends and family there for the potluck BBQ. It was so nice to be outside celebrate a special little girl! Thanks to everybody who came for making it a nice day!!! Here are some pictures of that day.
This past Saturday we went to a new (at least to us it was new) pumpkin patch in 3 points at a farm called Buckelew Farms. They had wagons pulled by horses that took you out the pumpkin patch, they had a small petting zoo, and some activities for the kids. They even had a corn field maze, but the girls are too little for that, maybe in a few years. It was a nice day picking out our Halloween pumpkins and just hanging out. This pumpkin patch was a lot closer than the one we usually go to, but it didn’t have the yummy apples like the other place!! Here are the patch pictures.
Last night we carved those pumpkins that we picked out. Felicity is turning into a little girly girl. She didn’t like being out in the pumpkin patch because she was afraid of getting dirty. So . . . she didn’t really like cleaning out the pumpkin because she didn’t want to get dirty. She even took her dress off before she finally stuck her hand in the pumpkin! Michaela thought the pumpkin guts were a little strange, but didn’t seem to mind. Then she became more interested in the newspaper that the pumpkins were sitting on! My job seems to be the cleaning and Randy’s seems to be the actual carving, but that’s okay, I like the pumpkin guts! Here are the pictures of the carving fun!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
