the trains leaving...

But really.  This was the last weekend of the year for the "little choo choo" in the park.  Parking until April I think....

and Cora FINALLY got to ride with the boys:

But poor Andy....no one would ride with him....

 Oh wait, next ride they ALL wanted to ride with Uncle Andy / Daddy...

she's almost swiss

For the longest time Cora was a  definite "mama's girl".  Who can blame her? I am, in fact, the coolest.

But daddy's been wooing her with frequent walks to look for kitties and puppies and throw rocks in the river; tearing animal pictures out of his cabelas ads for her and eating the lima beans out of her mixed veggies.

  And she has responded -- he is now the preferred facilitator of nose blowing,
  (he is confused and not altogether pleased about this side effect....)

and many other more wonderful things!

I'd say she's pretty close to being Switzerland and it's fun for all! 

Toddler Problems

Sometimes you just have one of those days...where you miss a leg hole and no one notices for a couple of hours...

and it usually ends up fine.  

#toddlerproblems

this just in...weather report; also, this just in...weather report

So this was the forecast written for Friday:

• FridayA chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. North wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

So this was the forecast written for Friday. Then, this was the forecast written for Friday.

Really?  Saying showers and thunderstorms likely throughout the day must have just seemed too easy...clearly no writing skill demonstration was required of the person who puts this on the web.

this is why we can't be friends: feeling "off"

An email from Andy earlier this week:

"Have you felt 100% ok today?   My tummy is just a little off, and I feel just a little sore, maybe just from sleeping hard in one spot."

Oh really? You feel a little "off"? and maybe a little sore or achy?  Hmm.. is it a like a mild irritation, fleeting kind of feeling....or more like you are growing a human and have expanding body mass and joints everyday kind of feeling?

Please tell me your problems.  I imagine this is an incredible burden on your day.

This is why we can't be friends.

also, we all noticed he used the word "tummy" in that right?  maybe we'll chalk that up to having a 2 year old and let it slide....

i go to college: milk

Last week was the first week back at class at K-State.  Always exciting. Always Busy. Always exhausting. Always interesting.  

College student highlight of the week happened at the grocery store...as I was walking through getting my few items I overheard to girls who were clearly roommate's shopping together....trying to decide what type of milk to get.  There seem to be some debate over 1% vs. 2%....then suddenly one of the girls got very excited when she spotted "one slash two percent"!  

This was not the brand -- but just a representation 

 "1 slash 2 percent" the girl was so excited about.  What a perfect compromise...

Hopefully she is enrolled in a math class....

oh thank you.

It's been a great week: 

Monday someone told me they could tell I was pregnant way before I told anyone because my face was getting fat.

Today someone told me that my stomach "looks really really big today".

oh thank you.  so does yours.