Beauty Time with Mama

Do you think she likes the blow dryer?

So I have been waiting for the longest time to do fun stuff to Nicolynn's hair. So Monday was the day I was going to put curlers in her hair after her bath. We (I) had lots of fun trying to get 5 curlers to stay in her hair while Nicolynn wanted to "help" comb her hair or squirm. But we did it. For maybe a while 10seconds I had 5 curlers in her hair. But when I took them out... no curls. Oh well, maybe next year. :)

Papa Time

 Josh and I started taking a parenting class called "Growing Kids God's Way", and we are thoroughly LOVING it. And Nicolynn loves it too. She gets her "Papa time". And of course, Papa spoils her perfectly :) She gets to ware him out, this time by riding on his back. But she also likes to give Papa a turn to ride on hers. :)

Play Day with Grandma H

Last week Thursday was such a beautiful day, and I was able to spend it with Nicolynn and Grandma. I took lots of pictures while those two played and ran around. We walked thru leaves in their back yard, looked for salmon in the river, played on the neighbors swing set, and sat on Grandpa's tractor.

Then we were off to Helder Park.

Pumpkin Parade

Ok, I got behind again on writing on my blog... But in the meantime, we went to Nicolynn's first parade. The pumpkin parade!!!! It was a cold and slightly rainy day, so I made Nicolynn some warm milk to drink. She enjoyed that. (I would not have...)   After the parade we went to a "petting zoo" that they brought down town. Nicolynn LOVES animals. She's not afraid of any of them. She want to pet them, ride them, hug and kiss them. She can't get enough.
After the parade we picked up some pumpkins to paint and carve. And then later that night we went out to crazy horse for Grandma and Grandpa Holtrop's anniversary. Nicolynn did very well, but she is so shy. We walked into Crazy Horse, and she but her head down and wouldn't look at anyone. We set her on the stool and she didn't even look at the buzzer they give you to hold until your table was ready. The lights and everything was flashing on it, and she wouldn't look at anything.

ABC's & 123's

Mommy got a new phone she had to try out, and Nicolynn has some new words!!!

Our walk to the park

Today was such a beautiful Fall day!!! So we went out for a walk to the park.
On our walk we found different leaves, and picked some wild flower. Nicolynn was pretty disappointed when I didn't pick her a flower from around someones house though. :) That's something I will have to keep explaining I think.

At the park she played on the swings, and Nicolynn decided she wanted to drink her milk in the pretend kitchen at Timbertown. So she sat down on the chair, and signed and said milk. She's just starting to talk more now. And the words she has signed for the last year, are some of the first words she speaks. When I ask her if she wants "more" (the first word we signed), she nods her head yes as she says "more".  We have so much fun!

And to top off our little walk, we saw 2 snakes on the way home. Nicolynn spotted one, and I spotted the other. And they just stayed there so we could look at them.

Play Date with Luci and "Pay-Pay"

Aunt Lindsey and her two girls...

 Last week we were able to have a play date with Aunt Lindsey and Luci (the little girl Lindsey Nannys for). But the star of the visits is always Payton the doggy, which both the girls call Pay-Pay. Luci has been saying Pay-Pay before Nicolynn was even thinking about talking, but now Nicolynn chimes in too. Nicolynn loves Pay-Pay, but Pay-Pay doesn't always love Nicolynn. So Aunt Lindsey gave Nicolynn a doggy treat to get Payton to play with her :)