Bye Bye Baby Belly

I've noticed over this past week that Andrina is losing her baby belly as her abdominal muscles are maturing. She is looking longer and leaner and more little girl than baby every day.... And she's 2 years, 4 months old today. Where is the time going?

Kermit the Frog

The other day, after many views of Elmo, I suggested to Andrina that we watch a Muppet Christmas Carol. She wasn't too keen on the idea at first but I insisted and told her how Kermit the Frog and all of the Muppets are friends of Elmo and everyone living on Sesame Street. Well, I put in a Muppet Christmas Carol and she loved it! She really likes Kermit now and several times she has asked for Kermit and the Muppet Movie. I also let her watch the Muppet Movie and she enjoys that too. It is so nice that there is something entertaing and wholesome that we can watch together. And these movies are from my childhood too. And a Muppet Christmas Carol is my favorite Christmas movie!

Kermit the Frog, Andrina's new friend! A new favorite movie, perfect for this holiday season.

The original Muppet Movie

Happy Halloween 2009

Andrina was Elmo for Halloween this year. She's old enough now to understand trick-or-treating and she enjoyed going from house to house getting candy. Here's some adorable pictures:

The day before Halloween Andrina had two parties; one at her school and one at Gymboree. She was pretty overwhelmed during her school party. There were so many parents there and everyone was dressed up for the parade all the students made throughout every classroom. I had to carry Andrina during it and she took some time to calm down afterward.

One smile during the parade

Having fun at the Gymboree party

Painting Pumpkins

Andrina picked out some pumpkins that are too small to carve so I decided that she would enjoy it if she painted them instead. So we did that this afternoon and she did have fun with it. Here she is painting them:

4 Pumpkin Farms in 1 Week

Andrina and I are the busy bees this month, trying to take advantage of all the decent weather and fall fun we can. Over this past week we got lucky that we had good weather several days so we went to pumpkin farms! Here's an assortment of pictures:

Enjoying the Fall Weather as Much as Possible

This whole summer and fall as been a real bummer for weather. Our summer was much cooler than average and it rained a lot. Unfortunately this has continuted into fall. It rained literally all day yesterday, we got over 3 inches, and this morning it rained here again. I had plans to take Andrina to the same pumpkin farm with the carnival rides that we went to on Monday after her art classs at Gymboree. But it was still raining after her class so I took Andrina to the closest mall to enjoy their soft play area. Generic yes, but she enjoyed it. And a bonus for me, I got lots of spontaneous hugs and kisses from my little love during her art class and while at the mall! Another bonus was that it stopped raining and the sun even came out while we were eating lunch.

I told Andrina that after she finished lunch she needed to take a nap and that she needed to actually sleep during her nap and when she woke up, I would take her to a pumpkin farm and fair. Andrina talked about this while getting ready for her nap and, miracle of all miracles, she actually slept during her naptime! She was so adorable when she woke up from her nap, she was literally jumping up and down in her crib shouting, "pumpkin farm, fair"! So it worked out just great. We went to the fair again and rode more little kiddie rides. I didn't take my camera today, I was just so happy that it stopped raining and Andrina took a nap so she was able to enjoy an afternoon activity with the weather cooperating.