Goodbye Coralville

I'm leaving in a couple of days, but I thought I'd do one last post before we go. It might be a while before Mommy is able to get going with the blogs again.

We had a final play date at Kent Park on Friday morning.I had a snack with my main man.Charlotte played on the picnic blanket.Does anyone know sign language? What is he trying to say?Matthew's mom and Alaina are always up for a good time.Fat & Happy - that's her nickname. No one can resist Alaina.Charlotte fell asleep after gnawing on Sofie for a while.Matthew gave me some kisses.Alaina refused to pose with Charlotte and kept wanting to practice rolling instead. I wonder if Charlotte will start to roll soon?!Cooperation by F & H and sleeping by Charlotte.We're happy kids.Twin butts. This was after they had dried off some from the slides.F & H modelling some cool shades.I love to lay by babies on the blanket.We also got together with Matthew, Jamie, and Alaina on Wednesday morning.Kissing, as usual. I wonder how old we'll be when our mommies stop encouraging it.We also played at Matthew's table. Mommy is going to get me one just like it for our new play room.Bubba needed some snuggling the other night. I'm wearing my favorite jammies in this picture. I wish I could wear them all day every day.We went on a picnic supper the other day and it was fun.Mommy took a bunch of pictures around the house so I'd be able to have them to look back at later. She tried to get a good picture of us together and got a bunch of pictures that looked like this.This was the only good one out of the whole batch.Here I am in my sleep sack. Sleep sacks are awesome.I got a new teddy bear and named her Lindsay. She's a cheerleader. Go Cyclones!
Mommy has to cut this off for now. I'll try to have her do Charlotte's blog one last time tomorrow.

Spontaneity

Spontaneity is not usually Mommy's strong suit, but she had to get creative this morning. The smoke alarm went off when she was baking something so she decided to use the self clean function on the oven afterwards. The smoke alarm went off again...and wouldn't stop, so she loaded all of us up really quickly and we had to find something to do. We went to a pharmacy, stopped at McDonald's (because she hadn't grabbed enough of a breakfast for me), and then drove to a park. I asked to get out to play, so we did for an hour or so. Mommy remembered the camera in the rush to leave. Good thinking, huh?

Peekaboo!

Hello, down there.Is the slide too hot?Nope! It's fun.Charlotte chased the shade in the stroller for a while.Happy girl! She snuggled Mommy in bed for about four hours this morning so that put a twinkle in her eye. Silly girl refused to nurse yesterday and would only drink out of a bottle so Mommy didn't mind nursing her in bed for so long. Daddy had to go sleep on the couch though 'cause Baby Cakes is a bed hog.Weeeee!Charlotte nursed (yay!) and then got a diaper change on a picnic table. We both enjoy getting changed outside.

We went out to eat this past weekend and I graduated to a booster seat. Charlotte is going to start solids someday so it was time for me to move on. I did a great job. We went to Quinton's and I pointed out where Grandma spilled her pop.

I'll be in Fort Dodge at this time next week, blissfully napping at Nana and Papa's house after getting to play in my new house for a little while. I bet time will fly. We have a playdate tomorrow morning and we're going to a park on Friday morning. Nana and Papa are coming on Saturday so my parents can go to a party. They're leaving on Sunday and we're going to have our final "party night" in this house. Daddy has a ceremony on Monday and then we're heading HOME. I can't wait to see all my cousins. Kids are my favorite thing right now.

Museum Plus

We went to the Iowa Children's Museum on Tuesday and had tons of fun. I started by getting some groceries.My favorites were the fruits and vegetables. I'm a pro at picking those out because Mommy lets me pick them out at HyVee too.I rode on the airplane. Too bad Papa wasn't there this time!I climbed up a flight of stairs and told Mommy I was going to go down the slide.Yes, this slide.I chickened out and we went to a different room where I played with trains.After the trains, we went up the elevator.We spent the rest of the time on the farm. It's meant for kids my age so there's a lot to do.I played in the farm house and fed and bathed the babies.Charlotte had a great time too. She hung out on a quilt and played with Sophie.This is the farm house where I spent most of my time.I undressed my baby and Mommy informed me that the baby was a boy. It was anatomically correct.There were a couple of slides on the farm too.I'm a good tractor driver. Do you like my smile?Mommy has had the camera out a few times since Tuesday. I'm in a posing and smiling phase so she's taking advantage of the situation.We went to tot lot on Friday for the last time. I was in constant motion so there are a bunch of blurry pictures of me.I finally figured out how to use the big slide. I have to be naughty and climb up it, but I guess that's okay with a bouncy slide?I did a stinky at tot lot so that I could get changed in the car. I love to get changed in the back of the car.Notice anything new with our sign?Mommy made me a "happy meal". Yummy! She's trying to trick me into eating stuff by making it funny. She got me to eat some "magic meatballs" the other night too.I figure that I'll go straight to Victoria's Secret once I'm done with diapers.We went shopping this morning and I held Daddy's hand in the parking lot like a good girl.Safe and sound on the sidewalk.I love to look at all of the animals.I love it so much that I don't like to go home afterwards.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend!

Golf Outing

We went to another party tonight at a golf course. Mommy put me in one of my new summer dresses because it was 90 degrees out today.We realized there weren't any decent pictures of us as a family since Charlotte was born so we had someone snap a couple at the party. I didn't really want to cooperate.Matthew and I went on an elevator ride for fun.I tickled and hugged him lots and lots.He's my best friend and I'm going to miss him when we move.