Fall is Coming

Fall is definitely in the air here in Wisconsin. School has started, activities are in full swing, the weather is cooling off, and I swear I saw some leaves beginning to change. We're excited for fall, but not Winter, so we hope we have a long, long fall ahead of us. With the beginning of September Natalie has started many new activities. She is loving life and getting way too big. This is a massive post so sorry if you get bored halfway through.

One day while I was getting ready Natalie decided to organize her books and bring way too many of them downstairs to organize them on the shelves in the living room. So cute, but it definitely took us awhile to carry them up the stairs to put them away again.

Natalie had her first trip to the dentist and it was a success! No cavities and she was a brave girl. She wasn't necessarily scared of the dentist, she is just way shy with new people so this was a definite success.

Natalie also started dance a couple of weeks ago and really looks forward to it. I think she is still shy in class, but is loving it.

One day Myleigh and Natalie we playing and I found them in Natalie's room, they made a "fort" and were having so much fun reading books in it. After I took these pictures I forgot to put the camera away and they found it and took great pictures of each other. I have never heard two girls have so much fun with a camera before, they were so cute.

Thanks to our good friends Shawn and Bird Patrick and I were able to escape to Chicago over Labor Day weekend by ourselves for the night. It was so wonderful. I know the picture below is a little weird, but I was messing with it and accidentally saved the changes, and Patrick had already deleted the original. Also I am sporting the windblown look. Chicago definitely earned the name Windy City while we were there, it was crazy I almsost got blown away a few times. We had a great time, stayed in a hotel on Lake Michigan, shopped went out to dinner, walked Navy Pier and braved the "L" and the bus system to get around. It was a fun break and we were excited to see our girls when we got home. Thanks again Ostlers.

Natalie started preschool this last week with her friends, us moms are teaching them. She was so excited to go with her backpack and loves it. She actually has come home and talked all about it and told us all of the fun things she did. I hope that she keeps telling me what she did all year,

I love hearing her tell about it.

For those of you who have seen the picture of Natalie at the St. George Marathon when she was this age you can definitely see the resemblence of sisters. Natalie was wearing this same outfit, minus the bow and they look so similar. Rebecca looks more like me and Natalie is a better mix of the two of us we have decided.

REBBIE

NATALIE

Cute Rebecca all ready for the day, she is getting way too big, I finally had to pull out some warmer/bigger clothes for her, I can't believe she is almost 6 months old.

There was a kite festival along Lake Michigan this weekend. We have been so excited to go for awhile now, and woke up this morning to rain, of course. The last 6 or 7 times Patrick has been off and ready to go on a bike ride it has rained, we have to stop planning for him to go on a ride so we don't have anymore rainy weekends. The rain did clear up though and we were able to go and enjoy the festival. Taylor and Eliza braved the clouds and joined us too. The girls loved the stroller like always, I think we should write our stroller company and tell them to market this stroller as a triple stroller instead of a double. Whenever we use it I am either pushing 3 kids or 1, I think I have only pushed 2 kids once. They love it though.

Can you tell we woke Becca up from her nap to go to the festival? She did fall back asleep eventually while we were there she is such a good girl.

These cut outs to take pictures in provided the girls with lots of entertainment. Natalie enjoyed teasing me while I was trying to take a picture and playing peek a boo with Eliza. They finally posed for Taylor in the end.

Natalie and Elize spinning the wheel. The girls had so much fun running around and watching the kites.

Family picture by Lake Michigan, the lake is so beautiful and fun to live by. The kits flying by the lake looked so neat.

They had some of the kids help hold down the netting over the balloons while they were waiting to launch them. Natalie took her job very seriously and did not move until they told her to.

The launch of the balloons and kits, Natalie was so excited.