Videos :)

We had an extra cold morning! The overnight low was too cold to register on our weather station - the lowest it goes is -21. It was -15 when we woke up in the morning! We got the big 7" snowfall over the weekend, then we got a couple inches on Tuesday and got a couple more inches this afternoon! I guess we're having a more traditional Wisconsin winter this year! I will post pictures of the kids playing in the snow in my next post... have to narrow down the pictures :) there was just too many good ones!

Haven't quite gotten to editing any videos to post, but actually caught a few that didn't really need editing :) didn't catch her laughing, but she's been doing this growling, groveling throaty noise that's really hilarious! We got that and her sucking her upper lip :) Anyway, enjoy!

First Laugh!

Beatrice laughed for the first time this past Sunday! Dad was getting her piggies :) of course I was out getting eggs for breakfast :( But then she laughed for me Monday morning (after trying several times, unsuccessfully, to get her to laugh on Sunday). She has such a cute little laugh. Mike called it a "subtle" laugh, and I would have to say that nails it. It's like a bunch of tiny flittering motor sounds put together. It's so cute! :)

There was frost on the ground this morning :(

I believe that Winter is just around the corner... Of course all the leaves are gone, we're past peak... and I didn't get out to take any pictures.

We were at the Wal-Mart in Rice Lake this weekend when Mike picked up a book and asked me if I wrote it. It was called "Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair"!! I said I should have written that book! So of course I had to buy it and so far it's pretty damn funny! And it was so me when Mike

and I started dating. Not only was she Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair, but she was 30-something and then took up knitting! Of course I crochet, but close enough!!!

Maria brought home her Kickapoo Diarama project, so I had to get a picture of it. She went out to the yard and gathered grass for it, made a little fire and such and the funniest thing is the cradle board! :) She cut out a picture of one of the Olsen Twins and pasted it to the cradle board! :)

2 Months Old! :)

Beatrice had her 2 month checkup today. She's doing really well! She weighed 10.5 lbs and is 22 1/2 inches long! Exactly in the 50th percentile for height, weight and head circumference. And the poor baby got her first round of shots :( They learn a new cry that day :( one of serious pain. It's so horrible! They had 4 nurses come in to give the 4 shots and had me hold her on my lap (which I didn't really want to be associated with that!). At least she got all 4 shots at once. It took her almost 30 seconds to cry - she sucked in right away and held her breath before she let loose :( my eyes got all teary too. It's so hard to watch your little baby get stuck with needles almost as big as her leg! The nurses commented that she had a soft cry, not so loud - and then she started screaming. Poor baby :( She's been pretty fussy since we got home, so we may be in for a long night :(