Thanksgiving

Wow! I suck!  I just posted two baby bump pictures and I am still behind a week.  I need to get Glenn on the ball tomorrow to take my picture before the week changes! Well, the past couple of weeks have been quite busy here.  Nan and Aunt Yvonne were here for two weeks and actually just left today. We did lots of shopping, painted the downstairs bathroom and decorated for Christmas.  Mom arrived on Thanksgiving day and leaves again on Sunday.  It has been madness here.  As luck should have it, we all got the stomach flu that is going around and we got it bad.  Our Thanksgiving dinner did not include Glenn or Isabella because they were both too sick to eat.  Mom at that point had not gotten sick so she was able to get in a meal before all the drama! I had wonderful plans for Isabella to make handprint turkeys but that never happened :(  As bad as it was for all us to be sick during Thanksgiving, at least we were together!  Thanksgiving night we loaded into the car and Nan and Aunt Yvonne had their first real Black Friday experience.  Target opened at 9pm this year and we got in the car and drove there 8:45.  We arrived and the line up was around the building.  I couldn't believe it!  Of course, at this point our lovely weather turned into a snow, icy mixture and it was freezing.  Aunt Yvonne and I went to lineup and Mom and Nan waited in the car until the doors opened. Even though, we were not the first ones in line and there were probably 200 people in front of us, we were able to get everything that we went there for!  Nick arrived on Saturday to spend the day and night with us and he never even seen Mom but it was great having him here. Isabella clearly remembered him because she was pretty much on top of him the whole time he was here.  Today is Mom's birthday and she is still not feeling 100% but we managed to celebrate the best we could! Tomorrow, hopefully, she is back to normal and we will be attempting the Mall of America!

Baby Bump - 25 weeks

Baby Bump - 24 weeks

Baby Bump - 23 weeks

MAB's new boat!

So, Da Pa's (Isabella's name for her grandfather) first gift to Isabella was a rocking horse that to this day she loves and he thought it was only fitting that the new baby's first gift was also a rocking horse.  Well, we are doing a nautical theme for his room and I found online a rocking boat which I fell in love with.  I showed it to Dad and Glenn and they were both super excited as well so Dad bought the baby the pirate ship rocking chair.  It arrived this week and was in a super huge box so Glenn put it together the night before last.  It is absolutely beautiful and we couldn't believe how nice it was! The baby is going to love it! Thanks Da Pa!

Halloween at the Bowering Residence

Isabella had quite the day yesterday celebrating Halloween.  Yesterday, we had Mommy and Me and all the kids dressed up. Isabella wore her Cinderella costume and was quite happy with the fact that she was a Princess.  She even shocked me by wearing her crown for the majority of class!  After class, we hung out at the playground at school with a couple of her friends.  Taryn and I then brought the girls to Snuffy's for lunch where the girls had a ball.  They were laughing all during lunch and found each other quite amusing especially when they decided to pretend that they were dinosaurs and continued to roar until we left.  We then went to Excelsior for the Excelsior Elementary school parade.  All the kids parade down main street in costume.  They are led by a band and there are lots of fire trucks and police cars involved.  The girls had quite the time and I got some really cute pictures.  After the parade, we went home and we both took a little nap.  A very little nap because Glenn was home by 3:30.  We then changed into our night costumes.  Glenn and I wore our robber costumes and Isabella put on her pig outfit.  We ran to Chiptole and picked up supper and then Mike joined us.  We ate and then went trick or treating at just a couple neighbourhood houses while Mike held down the fort! By the time we got home, Isabella was exhausted so she went to bed!  We woke up this morning however and she insisted on putting back on her Pig costume so she still has it on now!  She has got to be warm but she absolutely loves it so I will let her be :)  She is so funny.  The past week, her vocabulary has just taken off and she is talking non-stop.  This morning when I was cleaning upstairs, she came to me with a circle and said "Mommy, this is a circle.  It's a shape.  It has three sides and three angles".  LOL...I guess her love of Sesame Street is paying off because they always teach children their shapes by getting them to count the sides and the angles.  She is a little thrown off by the circle but its all starting to sink in.  During lunch, we had leftover Chiptole tacos which my child loves!  She started eating it and said "Mommy, this taco is spicy...MMM...." I could seriously squat that child. She is having all of her friends over on Saturday for a Halloween party so I am sure that there will be lots more pictures to share!