Can this part last forever?

Right now Louis and Mabel have so much fun together. Don’t get me wrong, they are starting to also fight with each other, but mostly they are just enjoying each other's company. They both love waking the other one up in the morning and enjoy seeing each other first thing.

As part of Mabel’s physical therapy, we have her play in a Rubbermaid to practice standing. Well it didn’t take long for Louis to want the same thing. After I dug one out for him, I sat back and watched. They had a great time playing peek-a-boo with each other!

Louis loves building forts with his Papa right now. It is a pretty standard weekly activity. Lately though, Mabel likes to play in it as well. She doesn’t usually sit in there too long, but rather prefers to go in and crawl out the “back door”

Quick updates: Mabel finally has both front teeth, which now brings her to five. Her second front tooth took forever to cut and must have been so painful for her! Louis can now write his name, but needs a lot of space to do it, so the chalkboard in the basement is getting used a lot. He is already started picking out all the toys he wants from Santa. I am surprised at how into Christmas he is!

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

1 hour back/ 1 month behind

I feel like October came and went in a blink! We had such a wonderful month, constantly busy and running around. It was fun but exhausting! Brad and I went on a quick trip to Vegas with some friends. We had a lot of fun and I was able to get some much need relaxation. It was hard being away from the children for so those three nights. I kept waking up early every morning listening for their voices!

Swimming lessons have ended and both children did so well! Once Louis turns three he can go into the next level. By the last class, Mabel loved the water! She giggled and laughed and like to lay back on relax. It is amazing to see them progress so quickly!

Louis continues to absorb everything. The first Monday after we changed the clocks back, I surprised that he noticed right away that it was now dark after daycare. He kept asking “why is it dark mommy?” and no matter what I said, he responded with “why?”. So I finally got the globe, had him pretend to be the sun and showed him that when Minnesota faces away from the sun – it is dark. He didn’t understand – but he stopped with the “why?”. I love the curiosity, but sometimes it is very exhausting trying to answer him.

Mabel is just goofy! She is talking all the time. Her favorite words are water (waya), eat, shirt, shoe, vroom vroom, thank you (day do) and of course “Papa”. She crawls around the house calling Papa all the time. It is very sweet. Her confidence in standing is growing. She now pulls herself up into standing position all the time, she is starting to cruise furniture and if we hold onto her hands she will take steps. Slowly but surely she will get there. She is so fun to be around right now. She talks like she is telling us a story, loves to do things just to get a reaction and has become so independent. I completely forgot about this stage, I love it!!

Lastly it was Halloween! We had a wedding on Halloween but we were able to get the kids out the week before and they got to do a little trick-or-treating in Avon with grandma. Louis was a dragon and Mabel was a little pig. They were both so cute, I just want them to always wear their outfits!

We have been enjoying the wonderful November weather and are looking forward to Thanksgiving and meeting Nolan Budde for the first time. I can’t believe next week is Thanksgiving already! At some point I am going to need to start Christmas shopping. Tis the season!