Photos!

One year ago today. That was me. Nyssa was in there somewhere! I ran across this photo while looking for some to post and thought I'd throw this one up! I can't believe she's almost 1!

That's Noo-Noo feeling the beat. Dancing to a Backyardigan's toy.

You may need to click on the picture above. That's Zachary in the brown shirt. Nyssa is on the other side playing peek-a-boo. If it's too hard to see click on it!

The sassy one after coloring at the table.

That's Zachary smooching Nyssa. Her bangs are so long! I don't want to cut them until she won't let me put them in the pony tail any more!!

I said, "Hey Nyssa." This is the pose she gave me. I love her.

This is our $5 garage sale bargain slide. It entertained all 3 kids for quite a while! Julia's legs practically reach the floor when she's on it! She's getting so tall.

The boy child's turn!

We were at a park and she decided to stick her tongue out at me when I was taking the picture! Sweet girl! :)

Mommy took her cell phone away. She was VERY angry with me. We actually got a pluggie out of the crib because she was so mad at me!

Sporting her Cubs dress from Auntie Lori. We were watching the bazillion geese that were camped out in front of our building.

She loves the park. It's just a matter of time before she throws that leg up there to try and climb the slide!

It's just a cute picture.

I think I clicked on the wrong photo to upload, her eyes are closed. But you get the idea with the sunhat. She actually leaves it on!

At the end of Julia's preschool year the kids put on a show. This is Miss J with her guitar that she made!

Trying to wink.

Trying to wink!

Random

Here you see our gaggle of geese that live around our apartment complex. There are so many babies it's crazy.

I had some help unloading the dishwasher the other night. She's such a good helper that she had to take a poop in the photo below! Poor baby, it's hard to get those poops out now that we are on all big people food and whole milk!

Ahh ravioli! She loved it! I had even rinsed some of the sauce off of the noodles! She still managed to get it EVERYWHERE!

She's doing awesome these days (shocker)! She is walking all over the place. She tries to run and ends up crashing, but she pops that little tush right up and keeps on truckin'!

We have played outside a lot this week at work. It's been great, summer will be such a good thing. I noticed yesterday and today that as soon as we enter the garage at work, she is immediately trying to squirm her way down so she can go. The funniest is when we are leaving (taking Z to school or going home). As soon as I open the back door to put her in her seat, WOWSA does the crying and straightening of our back start! I have a feeling we will be seeing the 'terrible twos' earlier than necessary!

We are hanging out here this weekend. Chuck is working all weekend, which is a bummer. We'll get over it though. He is off on Monday, so that will be nice to hang out with him then. Who knows what Nyss and I will find to do.

I'm still working trying to get all the clothes boxed up and organized to go to storage. I just found another little pair of baby socks, too. Of course that's one of the boxes he just took to storage! It's great having all the bottles packed away. In their place are the sippy cups!

She started dancing this week! She's been doing the sitting down and side to side thing for a while. The other night she was pushing a button on one of her toys that plays music, and the next thing we knew she was moving her feet too! She also likes to clap while she's shakin' it! If I ever figure out how to put video up here, I'll have to post a little piece.


Have a great weekend!

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day! It was a good day. We hung out at home in the morning. We went up to the Egert's at 11:30. Where we had round one of eating! It was great to see everyone! (Mommy took Lauren driving for a while too! It was pretty wild to be riding in the car while she was driving! She was only 3 when I moved in with them!)

We left the Egert's at 1pm. We had to head down to get Julia and Cameron. From there we went to Uncle Dave and Aunt Michelle's. Thankfully Julia and Cameron live on the way to their house. They live only about 10 minutes away from each other. Dave went and got Sue from her rehab/nursing home. Dave grilled out (round 2 of food) for lunch. The kids all got to play outside with one another. (Except Nyssa, she got to watch through the sliding glass doors and yell at everyone!)

On the way home, Nyssa fell asleep so we took the opportunity to scope out some places for the 1st birthday party that we need to start thinking about! We just hung out at home the rest of the night and had some wings (3rd round). We also got some laundry done. Talk about an exciting evening!

It was a great day! We hope all the Momma's out there had a great day as well!

This is by far the best photo of the 3 munchkins we have gotten since Nyssa was just a peanut!

11 Months!!

I just realized I never posted these! Almost to the one year mark and Mommy's getting around to putting up the 11 month pictures!!

Cosley Zoo & Hanging at our Apartment

Okay, so I didn't realize I had this saved in my drafts in here! I wonder what date it will post as! Oops. This was one of our first really nice days we've had. The kids are in shorts and Nyssa didn't have to wear shoes! Which thrilled her to pieces!

Cosely Zoo is a free zoo in a west suburb. It's actually free, with a thing for donations. It's a great little zoo. It took us about an hour to 1 1/2 hours to get through. It was perfect.

Daddy and his 3 kiddos!

Miss Julia. I didn't realize her eyes aren't open!

Cam "Call me a ham"

We went back to our apartment after the Zoo. Julia had gotten Pretty Pretty Princess for her birthday or Christmas. Every time we've played the game, we haven't allowed enough time to decorate it with the jewels. This time, we made sure to get it blinged out!

He's going to kill me for this picture one day!

A few photos!

Yes, this is the big girl walking!!

Sporting Zachary's Cubs hat!

Nyssa and the Nelson Nuggets! She didn't know where to go next. She kept walking from one baby to the other, it was pretty cute.

Auntie Lori gave Nyssa her first Oreo. It has a strawberry center. Nyssa loved it. Duh. She is my baby!

Walking??

So I'm thinking I have a walking girl now. She just takes off walking. She started this week at work. She was by the windows, the next thing I knew she was walking across the kitchen! If she loses her balance she'll crawl over to something to stand up, so is she considered walking? I don't now. But it sure seems like she's walking more than crawling! It's crazy and incredibly cute at the same time!

While she's walking she likes to hold her hand up to her ear (yes like she's on the phone, maybe Mommy's on the phone a little :) and saying "Hiieeee" She'll say, "bah" That can mean different things. That's how she says "bye" and it could be her translation for "bottle" too. "Da da" comes out very well. She will say, "Mom-mom" but usually when she's mad. Like when I put real shoes on her and she's trying to get them off in the car. It comes out twice too, Mom-mom. I'll take what I can get! She also likes to make the "sh" sound. If you ask her to say "shoe", "sh" comes out. I was driving with Jamie (the 10 year old girl I watch) the other day to get Zachary from school. Jamie was trying to tell me a story, and Nyssa kept talking louder and louder. Jamie finally looked at her and said, "Nyssa, shhhhhh." Nyssa looked at her and said, "sshhhhh" right back! Jamie looked at me and just started laughing. Once Jamie started paying attention to Nyssa, she stopped yapping back at her!

It's been a very rainy weekend here. Yucky. Chuck closed last night, so Nyss and I went to Chicago and visited my girlfriend and her 9 month old twins. Theodore and Avery. I think Teddy and Nyssa are the trouble makers for now. Avery? She just kind of hangs out in one spot. They are so big. Teddy is starting to crawl, he was getting really brave when we were there! Avery is good to go just hanging out sitting down or laying down on a blanket. At one point we had Nyssa and Teddy in his pack and play hanging out. They had a little cage match going fora while! Nyssa would be standing and Teddy would roll over to her and start pulling on her leg. She would fall down and he'd laugh like it was the funniest thing he's ever seen! It was so cute. I'll get pictures up on here eventually. (I'll probably have them put on face book first! Let me know if you want me to send you a link!)

Nyssa is in bed. I've got some banana bread in the oven. Nyssa and I have to be at work by 7:30 tomorrow morning (normal time is 8:15 - 8:30), so I had her in bed early tonight. That's about it out here!

Boy Oh Boy...

The one above is just cute. Come on! Look at those eyes! I am also quite fond of her nice bed head!

This is the booster that was mentioned in the previous post. (You'd think I would know to post these things back wards by now. Geesh) I love her black leggings with the lace around the ankles.

This was last night. She is standing in the thing that we keep the diapers, and using the dinosaur to try and get closer to E*lmo!

You know the end table that I said was blocked with the booster seat in the front? Silly me, thought the high chair blocked the side. Guess not. She weaseled her way in between the end the table and the high chair. She was going for the lamp and the beads hanging up there. They were moved after these priceless moments!

She is lucky that she's cute!!

are we in for it or what? Nyssa has suddenly turned into a monkey. I don't know how the heck this happened, but it definitely has! I love it when she throws her short little leg up like she's going to climb up on the sofa! At least she's short, we have that on our side!

She's been doing really well lately. She finally got those 2 top teeth. She got them last week about 5 days apart. We are finishing up the baby food we have in the cabinet and home and the stuff at work. I may buy some fruit here and there or even the dinners, but nothing like before. She eats pretty much everything she can get her little chompers into. It's great. I find myself ordering food that I can share with the little mooch! At 11 months ( a little less than 3 weeks!) we can take her off of formula. I think I'll still have to give her the baby cereal for the iron and such, but we can handle that! The formula cost hasn't been that bad, since we found the Cost*co brand! What a money saver generic has been. I think at this point I know where to find my favorite generic diapers, wipes and where to find the most reasonable baby food! I just need to get her to drink from a spill proof sippy cup better!

The next post is about having the kids on Saturday and taking them to the Cosley Zoo! It was beautiful here, so we found something to do outside for a change! It was a great day!

T. R. O. U. B. L. E.

This would be my little buttercup UNDER the computer desk.

Yes. She climbed into the toy thing. After this photo she was mad that she couldn't reach the toys that she had thrown towards to the entertainment center.

We brought this booster seat in the apartment to make room in the back seat for an adult for trip to Iowa. It hasn't made it back out to the car (we have another in the car for Julia). It has become Nyssa's favorite seat. It sits on the floor next to Mommy's chair and it blocks the front of the end table to boot!

This is just a sweet photo!

10 months old!

It's been a while since I've been on here! I've got some other posts to get her about our trip to Iowa and of course Easter! I'm going to start with Nyssa turning 10 months on Saturday! Her top left tooth also decided to make an appearance that day as well! Nyssa and I didn't do much Saturday. We had a boat-load of laundry to catch up, after our trip to Iowa last week I never got around to doing laundry last Sunday so it was twice as much. I hate it when I do that.

Nyssa is still taking steps all the time. I counted 9 steps that she took to Chuck the other night. I catch her just standing more and more now. She'll be standing there, and then decide to sit down. She cracks me up.

Yes that is her laundry basket she is sitting/standing on. All of a sudden she's got this monkey thing going on! Out of no where she decides she needs to try and climb on everything! She'll be playing and you'll her little leg come up to figure out if she can climb.

On Saturday Mommy finally got her stuff together and cleaned out Nyssa's drawers of clothes. She has outgrown all her 9 month stuff, so I got it all washed and put away and pulled out the 12month stuff. It was kind of sad, the girl has some really cute clothes! I still need to pack away the little socks. You know the ones? The adorable little socks by Carter that are so freaking cute. I'm still cramming her chubby little feet into them, I shouldn't because I do have some bigger ones. But they are just so cute.

We are off today! I'm hoping to get those other posts up here as well as getting some things done around the apartment in between!