Erika is one!

Well we did not do a whole lot of Erika's birthday, but we had some fun none-the-less. I still cannot believe she is one. Time flies.

She is now walking a few steps at a time. The main reason for this is she tries to run so her body gets ahead of her feet and she tumbles forward. I am not looking forward to her walking, as she is a speedster at crawling, and I am afraid she is just going to take off at a run once she realizes she can.
She is also becoming quite picky about food. Most of it seems to end up on the floor, but she does seem to have a sweet tooth. (As evidenced by the birthday cake all over her.)

She is talking some. She loves our guinea pig and can be seen quite a bit "chatting" with him. She will then look at you and yell "Lenny!" It is really cute. Most everything is "dada". Although we have discovered variations to that, in that there are different tones for different things... she goes high pitched at the end of the word when "talking" to or about Alexa. Doggie and duckie are higher pitched in the middle and daddy is the excited "dadadadadada!" At least that is what it seems like so far... LOL. (Wow, you know I must be a mom of three, not to many others would be able to understand baby talk so well. LOL Maybe I should write a book.)
Anyway, we are getting ready for fall here. The weather has finally decided to cooperate and cool off... We are decorating pumpkins on Friday with our home-school group, and the kids will also be dressing up for Halloween. So I am sure there will be plenty of pics to follow. November is shaping up to be another busy month, with doctor appointments. play dates and Thanksgiving activities, and I would like to squeeze in a trip to the zoo sometime.
Thanks to everyone for the Birthday wishes for Erika...

Hope everyone has a blessed upcoming Reformation day, and is taking time to enjoy a wonderful fall so far.

Pumpkin patch

These are from our trip to the pumpkin patch with our Home-school group. We had a really great time and found some good pumpkins to decorate for the fall.

Updates

Anyway we have been out and about the last two weeks as the weather did actually cool down some. Here are some photos from our outings.

 These are from our outing to Fountain Hills. The kids had fun playing and watching the fountain. We even had a picnic. Erika is really trying to walk now and got in plenty of practice at the park that day with Daddy's help.

Ok these second set of pics is from our trip to the zoo.
The weather was finally nice enough last week that we managed to get out there. Of course this week are back in the 100's... go figure, but at least last week was very nice and we had a great time at the zoo. :)

Ok so I leave you with a blast from the past. A few old high school friends and I have been reminicing (on Facebook of course) and it has been a lot of fun. We have been digging up old photos from our high school days. Here is one of me and really good friend of mine. It was taken in 1993. Enjoy!