Chicago Winter Wonderland

Normally when we go up to Chicago, I (sara) makes all the plans and of course I plan the most time with my closest friends.  This time it was all about BOB!  We drove through a snow storm but we made it.  Amanda and family were actually in Des Moines, so she was soooo generous to let us stay in their house. We met our good friends the Kelly's and their families.  The last time we saw them I was pregnant with walt.  SO we had a lot of catching up to do.  Saturday am we went to Navy Pier (i know we are such tourists!) they have a winter indoors carnival.  It was a lot of fun.  Our kids are 13, 4, 3, 2, and 5 months and they all loved it.  Saturday night we went to Jamie and Liz's house for dinner.  They had homemade pizzas- delicious.  And then Sunday we got to see some hockey friends, Mark, Shari, Jane, Emily, and Eric.  What a great time. 

crawling???

Francine loves to be on her tummy, well today she took laying on her tummy a step further and she got up on all fours????  Bob and I just looked at each other and smiled wide eyed!  WOW!  She is going to be on the go soon. 

2 Des Moines Videos

thanksgiving 2010

We go to Des Moines every other year for thanksgiving.  This year Thanksgiving also fell on Victoria's 4th Birthday.  So it was an exciting long weekend to  say the least.

her laugh.....

Walt loves him some FranFran

Magic House Sunday

Walt is very lucky to have such a cool great-grandma.  She got walt (and the family) a membership at the Magic House which is the St Louis Children's Museum.  Today we went and walt once again loved being there and loved exploring the museum.

Fort-Tent

Ok so we actually did take 2 pictures while walt was sick, I made a tent for us to read books in.  It was pretty fun. 

November updates

Sorry all of you "loyal" blog readers (Granny and Poppie), we have been a little crazy around here.  Walt came down with a horrible sinus infection.  So last weekend there were no pictures taken, he is finally feeling back to his normal self. He did miss 3 days of school because his fever would not stay away.  Francine luckily did not catch anything.  I guess we should have been taking pictures of her, but alas we were balancing a sick pre-schooler and a 4 month old. 

Francine is doing amazing. She can roll from her tummy to her back and from her back to her tummy.  She loves playing with toys and has just started to put them to her mouth ( oh, it begins, I feel like walt just stopped doing that!) 

We are headed to the Ginthers for Thanksgiving.  It is also Victoria's birthday on Thanksgiving, so walt can't wait. 

Francine's Baptism

Francine was baptized this weekend at St. Margaret's of Scotland.  My parents came into with my brother Dan and his daughter Victoria.  Cari and Raym are her Godparents and they came down from Chicago with their 2 year old daughter Penelope.  It was such a wonderful weekend.  Honestly we all loved every moment.