Tastes like Babeh!

The horsey liked me. I am kind of nervous around animals at first, I take awhile to warm up to them. Mommy & Daddy took me to see the horses a couple of times before one of them liked me enough to give me a taste. Hmm, maybe someone didn't wash my hands well enough after dinner. HAHAHAH! Oh, and don't worry, Mommy cleaned and thouroughly antibacterialized me after the mini bath.

Saturday

Saturday was another fun day in Windom. We started the day playing and that's pretty much what we did all day long. I love to play with Grammy and Grandpa. I'm usually on my best behavior around them. Here's a picture of Grandpa playing around with me. Grammy told him he had to put socks on so he put them on me. It was fun and kept my legs warm for awhile.

Here I am at lunch time with my I love Grandma & Grandpa bib. Mommy always packs a ton of stuff for me when we leave home and bibs are no exception. She keeps forgetting that Grandma & Grandpa have this bib at their house. There's a neat-o story that goes with this bib, but I'll save it for another less eventful day.

Here I am standing on the dining room table all by myself. I can do that, you know? I can stand all by myself. I can also take a few steps whenever I feel like it. I just don't always feel like walking, you know? So I tend to crawl more that walk. It's quicker for me to get around now. I'll keep practicing though, maybe one of these days I'll make the switch...then you'll be the first to know. :)

We also spent a little time at the fair in the afternoon and then went to the lake for awhile. This is the park right across from the place Mommy & Daddy had their wedding reception. Mommy really wanted pictures taken on the swings there, but that too is a story for another day (perhaps I should let mommy tell that one, she get's kinda crabby and whispers words under her breath when talking about their wedding pictures.) Here I am at the park riding a fun toy. I rode it all by myself for the very first time ever. It was a great time.

We went back to the fair around dinner time for some food and some fun with Uncle Michael. Of course he's not my actual uncle (I only have a couple.) Since Mommy's an only child she's decided to give me honorary Aunties and Uncles in addition to the real ones I already have. I have Auntie Kate (my Godmother) and Auntie Jeslil (Mommy's oldest friend, not in age, but longevity) I also have Uncle Michael (Mommy's dear dear friend) So anyway we met Michael at the fair and Mommy wanted to mess around with him, so she convinced him he just had to take me for a ride on the merry-go-round (thinking that I would throw a big fit like I did yesterday.) Silly Mommy just hasn't figured it out yet. I'm always on my best behavior for people I don't see that often. So anyway, I went for a ride with Uncle Michael and you can check it our for yourself.

The CC Fair

WOW! I had such a blast this weekend. I think this blog post may be a really really long one as Mommy took lots of pictures and videos this weekend.

So on Friday, Daddy took the afternoon off and we headed to Windom for the highly anticipated Cottonwood County Fair. Mommy says it's kind of lame, but she feels like she has to go because it's a tradition and she wants me to have small town traditions too, even though we live in a bigger town.

Grandma and Grandpa bought me some ride tickets and crossed their fingers that the midway would have a merry-go-round. Luckily it did. I rode it with Grandma and when the ride stopped I got kind of upset. I may have even thrown one of those famous fits Mommy and Daddy tell others about (but they never believe it.) I screamed and cried so hard that Grandma turned around and brought me back on the horsies. Mommy and Daddy just rolled their eyes at each other and said something about spoiling me. Here's a picture of Grammy and me on the horsies.

Here I am checking out a goat. If you look at the bottom right corner you can see it's little baby goat under the sawhorse. I loved the baby goat and I even convinced it to come over and see me a bit closer.

My new computer...

It's finally here and holy buckets it's GORGEOUS! I'm using it right now and must say, so far so good. I'm definitely going to have to buy a book for my new Photoshop program because I opened it up and said, "HUH?" Vista is a bit of a change, but I've used so many different OS' over the course of my technological life that I'm sure it won't be long before I love it more than the last (cross your fingers!)

The fingerprint reader is super cool and I have so many neat features I haven't even checked out yet (video chat, a backlit keyboard, supposedly awesome sound, etc. etc. I'm currently writing this blog entry with Windows Live writer instead of the cumbersome blogger editor. We'll see how it goes. So far...so good!

Here she is.... I haven't named her yet. LOL!

PS I didn't completely plan it to match my house, but it was a thought in the back of my head when I ordered my favorite color! The wireless mouse is the same shade and is just so cute!

Kevin was in an accident

However, he's fine *sigh of relief.*

I heard my cell phone ringing Tuesday morning at about 7:30 (not too long after Kev left for work on the scooter.) For some reason I got up (probably because the person left a message and I wanted to know who it was.) Well, I saw it was Kevin and called him back without listening to the message, which turned out to be a good thing.

Apparently, it had been raining (therefore he SHOULDN'T have rode the scooter at all, but that's another post all together.) There are these weird rain grates at the bottom of Lee blvd hill for the rainwater to go into and I guess they were very slippery. As Kevin was about to turn, he went over the slippery grates and the wheels came out from under him. He scraped up his wrists and a bit of his ankle but otherwise is fine. His wrist hurt him for awhile but he's predicting a full recovery by the weekend. The scooter, however, not as good. :( Luckily it's nothing major, just some scratches and stuff. Check it out for yourself:

Playgroup and such

Today Mommy and I traveled all the way to Maple Grove to play with some of my friends. I had such a good time and I finally got to meet Katie who is only 12 days older than I am. It's hard to take a group picture when we all get together but they always turn out so nice. Mommy has pictures with most of this group of my friends going all the way back to when I was 3 months old and I didn't do much playing. We're sure growing up fast. In fact, most of the mommies of these friends are pregnant with their little brothers or sisters. Mommy doesn't talk about me getting a brother or sister, so I'm thinking it may be awhile before I get one (if ever.)


After we got home from the cities, we played outside for awhile before heading over to The Good's for dinner. I love going over there, it's always such a good time.

The fair

Mommy, Daddy and I met Grandma and Grandpa in New Ulm today for the Brown County Free Fair. I was really looking forward to it and it was a lot of fun. They had a great petting zoo full of exotic animals. I didn't love the animals, but it was good for me to check them out.

I was least afraid of the giant turtle in this picture. I think the fact that he was pretty slow moving and low to the ground (near my height) put me at ease around him. He had a hard shell and looked kind of wrinkly in the face. Mommy says it's impolite to point out people's wrinkles.

Overall it was a good time and now I'm really looking forward to the Cottonwood County Fair in Windom this weekend. Mommy entered me in the "Charming Child" photo contest. I wonder if people will vote for me?

Sleeping Bean

Lauren and I had a busy day today. This morning we went to the waterpark in Waseca with some of our friends. I thought Lauren was tolerating the car better now that she's in a forward facing car seat but I was proven wrong today. She threw a fit the whole way there and most of the way back until she finally conked out. Luckily her seatmate Elliot can sleep through an intense screaming fit, because there was nothing we could do for her.

This afternoon Kev and I went to go to Hy-Vee (after we tried to have Lauren take a nap and failed.) Turns out she just wanted to go for a car ride and fell asleep before we even got there.

My friend Elliot

I had a fun day today. My friend Elliot came over all by himself. I mean his Mommy Anna brought him over, but she didn't stay and play this time. She had to go to work and Elliot's Daddy Kyle wouldn't be home in time for Anna to make it to work, so she brought him over to our house. We had a fun time playing.

Mommy told me she couldn't wait for El to come over so I would stop being so cranky. As soon as Elliot came I was so happy to see him I forgot all about whatever it was that was upsetting me. We played together for an hour until his Daddy came to get him. I even shared my sweet pottery barn chair and favorite book with him. Check out all the fun we had.

We're back

Kev and I are back from Bismarck. We had a great time and as usual ask ourselves, "Why has it been so long since we've been there?" We always have SUCH a blast, it's sad that we can't get out there more. Unfortunately, it's a very very long drive. I didn't think it would be much worse that driving from Duluth to NoDak, but the drive from kato there was much worse!! Maybe it was the perpetual road construction, detours, or slow drivers, but I'm thinking that perhaps we're just farther away that we were in Duluth.

Anywho, we left Friday at 6am and barely arrived in time to stop and pick up a gift (we had to do everything last minute since we weren't sure if we'd be able to go due to my crazy fever and stuff.) We got dressed at a wayside rest (LOL!) and I had to put my makeup on in the car (hellllooo Tammy Faye, we'll I hope not.) It was a nice wedding with a lot of familiar touches. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and I am flattered. Summer and Steven had a few details in their day that they borrowed from us and it was nice to see. My sister (in law) Tiffany was a bridesmaid and looked ravishing (as did the bride too of course.)

On Saturday we had a fun day hanging out with the family. We hadn't seen Kev's sister Heather since our wedding and her kiddos (our nieces) have grown do much. Later in the evening the entire clan got together at a tiny hole in the wall for Karaoke and everyone is so darn good! I didn't sing (I used to sing, but was never a soloist) but almost everyone else did.

The drive back today was very very long and I was just happy to get home. It was only our second time away from Lauren and the first time we were any distance away from her. Luckily, my parents were able to take a day off from work and come up to our place to take care of her. I really think it made a big difference as she was in her element and so unbelievably happy to be around all weekend. My parents were very sad to say goodbye. They had too much fun spoiling her (they took her out to eat, bought her a new toy and took her to the FAIR!) How fun!

Ok I need to wrap it up here, I'm rambling now and have some stuff to do and my one and only tv show that I'm loyal to, to watch. Take care!