Fall: Not the Season

Natalie has developed a huge obsession with the word FALL. She won't go down the stairs because of "fall." If we are holding her wrong she yells "fall." Anything that she pushes off the table she yells "fall" as she is pushing it off. Fall, fall, fall she won't stop, seriously stop on by you will here it at least once a minute. I have been trying to teach her the word truck, for obvious reasons jk. Well here are some pictures of 10% of our recent adventures; more to follow of Diana and Lynsey's visit and thanksgiving.

This is Natalie unfolding all of our laundry because she lost a toy and was stressed about finding it.
This is Natalie and I on the Milwaukee River Walk, more pictures later on.

Natalie loves her hot chocolate, so much that she dumped the whole thing on amy seconds later. I laughed my head off, but Amy was mortified. She claims it was her first time being embarrassed in public by Natalie. Personally, making it 19 months without an public embarrassment is nothing to complain about.
Natalie and Amy in a phone booth on the river walk, apparently it smelled of urine. Notice they shut the door, must have liked the smell?
Amester and Natalie on a bridge.
Natalie
For all you older people who read our blog, I bet you can't guess who that is? It is a Bronze Fonze, I personally don't know who he is, but if it were up to me a statue of Homer would have been in place of Fonze.
Natalie is petrified by him, she does not like the fonze.

Natalie and I with a cool little tug boat in the back ground on the river walk.
Natalie has this obsession with cleaning out her toes whenever we take off her socks. At least she will always have clean feet.
Here is the leaf plow for all those who thought I was lying, it does exist.
We took Natalie to the Children's museum here, and Natalie loved all the golf balls that they have there. Basically everything they have there runs off golf balls, so those of you who know Natalie well she had the time of her life.
Natalie at the Chicago temple, we were able to go down after tests. Amy and I switched off going in it was great fun. Except I forgot that the state of Illinois makes you pay tolls the second you enter Illinois. Amy and I NEVER carry cash, but we were able to scramble up enough for the first toll, but I had to run the second because no cash. They let you pay online within 7 days of missed toll so that was good.

Natalie still loves her rootbeer for those of you who were wondering. It is snowing like crazy today, wish I could go skiing.

Halloween! Monkey style

Fall is here



There are millions of trees here in Milwaukee, our streets are lined with trees. To collect the leaves here all you have to do is rake them into the road and they have a snow plow looking thing that drives through the streets shoveling away the leaves.

This is just the beginning of the leaf drop our trees are still loaded with leaves. Regardless, Natalie loves playing in them, and throwing them in the air.

This is our sweetheart Natalie in her monkey costume, she loves it. We wanted to get her a butterfly outfit but she wouldn't have it. When we tried it on her she sat there looking at herself in the mirror and laughing. She, however, will not wear the monkey hood that goes with it.
She also loves pumpkins.

Trick o' treating here is kind of weird. Each city has certain hours of the day that they can trick o' treat and they were all on Sunday afternoon and they only last three hours. You also have to register your kid to trick o' treat, and pay. Messed up I know. Luckily the med school does a trick o' treat and Natalie loved it.

This is Natalie and Patrick walking through the portion of the medical school that looked like Candyland, everyone was dressed accordingly it was way cute.

Natalie only allowed candy in her bucket, some lady put some halloween stickers in her bucket and she promptly took them out and said "no" to the lady. Geez, to all of you who don't know you only give candy on halloween, Natalie even knows that.

Natalie loves stealing her dad's ping-pong balls that he has in his backpack, if she doesn't have enough hands she'll just stuff them in her mouth.
Natalie on our front porch with her pumpkins.

Natalie throwing rocks into a stream at a park near our house.

Oh and for all of you in places other than Wisconsin, I hope you are enjoying the cold weather. Here it is in the high 60's sunny and beautiful, and everyone told me it was going to be cold in Wisconsin, please. St. george doesn't even have that so why would we move there?