Weekend Wrap-Up

We had another busy weekend so we're staying put today. CJ (as my sisters call her) has developed a lovely stuffy/runny/congested nose. So we are armed with Boogey Wipes (for real- they are sold at Target!) and a booger sucker. Hopefully it will work its way out of her system soon...though I feel it starting to attack my system as well. Could be an interesting week at the Gosselin house.

Anyway, on to the weekend. We met our triplet cousins on Saturday! Simone, Tyler, and their boys came to town so that the MN relatives and friends could see Everett, Liam and Wakelyn (and older brother Seamus, too!). Here we are with the 2nd generation of Gosselin cousins (I believe they are 2nd cousins...?).


Last night we ended up having Callie stay at my parents' house. Chris and I went to a movie and then met friends out at a bar for some interesting people watching and loud polka music! It was fun to have a night out...we stayed up til midnight! Pretty sure that by the time I fell asleep last night, I had been asleep for 2 hours already on Friday night. :)

We met my parents for brunch this morning and my mom took my new favorite family photo.


After brunch Callie was (supposed to be) super tired so we put her down for a nap. But after about 20 minutes of this:

Nap Time Noises from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

I went upstairs and saw this:


Thankfully she finally fell asleep about 15 minutes later.

Silly baby!

Kona and Callie

I know I talk about the relationship between the two "girls" a lot, but seriously, they are adorable. We have so much fun watching the baby/doggy sibling relationship, that I can only imagine what it will be like adding another human baby to the equation someday! (Not any time soon! haha) :)

I had the day off today since my mom is still in Colorado. It was wonderful to have an extra day with my baby, but we are excited for MorMor to come home! Anyway...this afternoon Callie came pretty darn close to crawling However, it was Kona that was the only motivation Callie had to move around. I tried other toys, books, myself...but the only time she managed to sort of crawl was to go for Kona.

Uh oh! from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

And later, when she was getting pretty crabby, Kona was the only thing that made her not have a sourpuss face.




And if she can't see the actual Kona, then seeing pictures of a bunch of doggies that look like Kona can also calm her down.



For real, she loves looking at our Boxer Magazine. So silly!

The relationship is still very much one-sided, but hopefully Kona will come around and realize, in maybe like 5 years, that it is alright to have a little person bug you non stop and not leave you alone.



Maybe.

Pumpkins and Piano Playing

Since MorMor is in Colorado and Chris is in Duluth, Callie and I went downtown tonight and hung out with Bops. I couldn't resist the photo-op with the pumpkins.





Then Bops and Callie played the piano!

Tinkling the Ivories from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Well, we watched the Twins implode yesterday in NY, so no more blogging about them.

The rest of the weekend was great! On Friday night 2 of my girlfriends from high school, Libby and Casey, came over. Casey brought her 2-year-old Ciri and she and Callie had fun playing.




On Saturday Callie, MorMor, Bops and I drove down to Decorah to visit Mari. Callie was QUITE impressed with her first visit to Luther. Perhaps she'll be joining Reese, Rylan and now little Teddy and soon-to-be Babies Wicks and Herring there in about 18 years??? Let's hope her big head = big brain = huge scholarship! :)





Today was another sewing day, so we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house. Cathleen was on baby duty while Mary and I got busy sewing. We made another sleep sack for little Miss Callie Joy! A purple one this time!




Because it was so warm again today, I pulled out the Kona, Hawaii t-shirt onesie my parents got for her. It was hard to get a good picture of her and Kona in her Kona shirt...so here's the best I could do:



And tonight while we were at the Gosselins, a certain baby turned into an inchworm:

Inchworm from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

I've been blissfully putting off baby proofing, but it looks like we can't do that for much longer!

C'MON TWINS!

So clearly my blog post yesterday did nothing to keep the Twins in the lead and they lost. They are currently behind in their game tonight and I'm actually watching it. Let's hope they can pull something off!

On a happier note, Daddy's home! He was on a 2-day golf trip so we've been flying solo the past couple nights. Now he's home and we're very glad!




Callie's wearing her I Love Daddy jammies for the occasion.

Go Twins!

The Minnesota Twins are currently up 3-0 and will hopefully continue to kick some Yankee butt. Here's a picture from the last Twins game we went to to show some MN pride.



I have to be honest...I'm not actually WATCHING the game. Though I have been checking startribune.com periodically to get the score. Am I a bad fan? Yep. But at least I'm blogging about it.

Anyway, here is my new favorite picture. Mary took it of Callie today...and I think it is just adorable.

Weekend Wrap-Up

My Dad is a TECHNOLOGY GENIUS and was able to recover our pictures!!!! Whew! Lesson learned: BACK-UP BACK-UP BACK-UP.

As I mentioned before, we had a WONDERFUL weekend with family. We went to the Renaissance Festival, ate a lot, hung out at the condo downtown, and at the Gosselins.

And a big PROPS to my sister Laura for passing the Bar Exam! She took it in July and just found out on Friday that she passed. Woohoo!!!

Ren Fest:

Elizabethan Singers from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

Condo:

Playing with Toys from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

Kona has met her match!

Scaredy Kona from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

Walker from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

Gosselins:


We love family time!

Finally, I'd like to give a shout out to my dear friend and college roomate (and loyal blog follower!)Melissa. She gave birth to a little baby boy, Theodore (Teddy) Robert, early this morning. So exciting!!!! She lives out in NY, so we won't be able to see him any time soon, but can't wait to see pictures. Congrats Melissa and Bobby!