Fall

Oh, what a beautiful day this was!  It was 70 degrees on November 2nd!  We were off to the park.  Far be it for Lydia to ever want to ride in her stroller anymore.  She preferred to "wun" or run to the park instead!

We've made quite a few visits to the Children's Museum this fall, both the original in St. Paul and the pop-up museum they have going at the Mall of America.  

Just doing a little grocery shopping :)

Henry is getting awfully good at making huge bubbles at the bubble table!

Here's the "little h" from the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom exhibit.   

The girl loves her make-up!

We went to this little bowling alley called The Nook in St. Paul with some good friends of ours.  This bowling alley was fantastic - the scoring was good 'ol paper/pencil, nothing was electronic, even the thing that brought your ball back was old-school.  Good times!    

Lydia is potty-trained!  A couple weeks after she turned 2, I went for it - no more diapers during the day.  I used the same 3-day method that I used with Henry and it worked, thank goodness!  Day 1 was ROUGH to say the least!  She went through 18 (yes, 18) pairs of "unnies" as she calls them.  I was physically exhausted by 11am.  Day 2 - she went through 4 pairs by 9:30am, and then something must have clicked and she "got it" and has been good ever since.  Of course she still has her accidents every once in a while - one of my least favorites was when she was standing at the very top of the play structure at Burger King and Henry yelled down to me, "Mom, Lydia just peed in her pants" and then of course, she proceeded to slide, I mean squeak, down the slide.  Gross.    

And here was one more of those beautiful fall days we had around here.  We were just out for a Monday morning stroll through the neighborhood :)