Bathtub Surprise

So I think I "officially became a mom" tonight. I was giving Kayla a bath and she was pretending to swim. She kept saying, "I swimming Mommy". I of course thought it was cute and told Daddy to come take a picture of her. (Little did I know she was leaving me a surprise while I am thinking to myself how cute she is) I let her play a little longer, then I decided it was time to get out and get ready for bed. As you can see there are lots of bubbles. So I'm reaching around trying to gather all the toys floating around and to my surprise I grabbed something I was NOT expecting. Up until now Kayla has graciously never poo'd in the bathtub. Let's just say I will rethink the bubble bath next time. It's safer to see the bottom of the tub, right?!




On a lighter note...since it was super nice out today, we took Kayla to a playground at a lake by our house. She loves being outside and running around. She will not be looking forward to being stuck inside for the winter :-(

Halloween Fun

This year for halloween we took Kayla to Night Eyes at the Zoo. It was really neat. They had the zoo all decorated and passed out candy. They had a kid zone at the end with lots of different things the kids could do. We also went trick or treating at Valley Junction. Kayla loved dressing up as Snow White and everytime we would get home and she would see her pumpkin she would say, Mommy more candy!










On Saturday we went over and visted Great Grandpa and Grandma Geist, Grandpa Geist, and Aunt Connie. Kayla had fun playing ball with Grandma and Aunt Connie.


Kayla got to spend some time with her friend Owen! Owen was sad when he had to leave her :-(



Kayla loves to read! Aunt Mandy and Grandpa and Grandma Smith read her some stories...





Kayla went to the Halloween party at the libray with Hannah, Marcus, and Ally. They made crafts and had some snacks. Later that night we took them all trick or treating.






On Sunday we went to Great Grandpa and Grandma Smith's house for Grandma's birthday dinner. Kayla was exicted to see their dog Max. When we got home she got out of the truck and said, I wanna see puppy. (She had to settle for Nelly instead) :-)

Pumpkin Carving

Kayla carved her pumpkin for the season. She wasn't too thrilled about helping Daddy clean it out at first, but by the time we were done she had quiet the mess I must say. She was a good little helper!







It's an Elmo pumpkin, can you tell?!?!

Kayla counts to 10!

Here's a video of Kayla counting to 10! Scroll down to the bottom of the page to stop the music from playing, so you can hear her!

Pumpkin Patch

This afternoon we went to Grinnell to Carroll's Pumpkin Farm. Kayla's friend Jase came too! There was sooo much stuff to do. She got to feed a goat, milk a cow, go down slides in a tree house, play in a barn full of corn, go on a hayrack ride, and much much more! Kayla and Jase had fun picking out a pumpkin too. We will for sure be going back next year!

Elmo and Friends!

My friend Gena who I grew up with brought back some toys from Ohio for Kayla. They used to be her daughter's and she was nice enough to let Kayla have them. Kayla loves all her new Sesame Street friends and her new Elmo chair! She was super excited when she saw all of them:-) Thanks Gena and Alexa for sharing!

We miss you Buster and Tubby

Two years ago today was the day Buster passed away. He was our first "baby". For four years it was Scott, me, and Buster. He had lots of favorite things like his no-sew blanket, toy ball, wrist bands, treats, and his doggy "Pinkie". He waited for us at the bottom of the stairs for us to come home everyday. He loved going outside on his leash too. (Yes I put him on a leash, didn't want him wandering off;-) He also had a kitty friend named Tubby. She was an outside stray cat that we ended up "adopting". I felt bad for her so we fed her and let her sleep in the garage in the winter. Neither of them liked any other cats but they seemed to loved each other. She would come to the back deck everyday and they would just sit and watch each other. She was very sad when Buster wasn't around anymore. Exactly one year later to the day, Tubby died too. We know they had some sort of connection. Tubby was sick for about a week before she died and it was just too ironic that she died on October 12th too. They are buried next to each other with their favorite toys. We miss them both very much but we know they are playing together once again in kitty heaven.