Marketplace Magic!

71 minky scarves
80 chenille bibs
34 reversible dresses
32 tees and onesies
12 lounge sets
12 skirts
3 changing pads
2 chenille blankets

and that, my friends, is all the loot you will find this weekend at Marketplace Magic in Billings! we are headed out of town tomorrow morning and won't be back in blogland until mid-week or so. isa and daddy will be holding down the fort here and having lots of fun in the meantime. there is talk of a camping trip if the weather cooperates. see you next week!

too cool for school

look who just had their first school picture taken! it's hard to find a school picture that isn't atleast a little cheesy, but this one is pretty darn cute too!

Halloween 2009

halloween has been a BIG deal this year! part of that excitement was due to the surprise factor of isa's costume. in the weeks leading up to Halloween, she had a million ideas of what she wanted to be. figuring this might make it hard to actually pick one, i decided i'd make something that i knew she would love-- hence the butterfly! sylvi's costume was a little easier, since she couldn't exactly choose this year. we started the day at the children's museum Fall Carnival and ended it trick or treating with the masses on Main Street. all in all, a very fun (and busy) Halloween!

TGIAFF

thank god it's (almost) friday folks.

happy ELEVEN months sylvi!

hard to believe another month has passed and the Roo is ELEVEN months old. never mind the fact that in just 30 days she will be a one year old. *sniff sniff*

at eleven months, sylvi just still as sweet and happy as ever. she still smiles at anyone and everyone and enjoys interacting more and more each day. she is definitely a talker and you can usually find her anywhere in the house if you just listen-- because she is almost always singing or talking to herself or anyone else that will listen! i think her first word (aside from mama and dada) is going to be baby. she already signs it and says "Day-dee!" with a big smile if prompted. actually, she will pick up just about anything and hold it and rock it while saying "day-dee". what can we say, the girl likes her babies... or shampoo bottles or sippy cups, or whatever else she can snuggle in her little arms! she is also starting to reliably sign "more" and "all done" as well, which makes feeding time alot more fun.

she isn't walking yet, but she has "accidentally" taken a few steps before she realized that no one was holding on to her. her two bottom teeth have almost completely come in and we're hoping for a little reprieve before the rest of them follow. she loves playing peekaboo and will giggle herself to tears being "chased" around the house in her birthday suit before bath time each night. she is a silly one, i tell ya.

there you have it, sylvi at eleven months. happy birthday roo!

just tuesday

H1N... whatever.

ah the flu. H1N1 has reared it's ugly head in our area like it's nobody's business, and like most places in the country, it's running rampant through schools and offices and public places in general. so it wasn't a huge surprise that we are starting to get sick too. after much consideration, the girls actually received the (first of two) vaccinations last week. but it appears that it may not have been soon enough, atleast for sylvi at this point. i have been sick since last wednesday and roo woke up last night with a high fever. so we are off to the doctor this morning to get a flu swab and if confirmed, ask some questions about the possibility of getting Tamiflu as well. so far phil and isa are not showing signs of illness, but i gotta say-- i'll be shocked if isa gets the full benefit of the vax before actually contracting the flu. *sigh*