We're rooooooolling!

Guess who figured out how to roll? Karalee is now the quite mobile little roller! She figured it out on our trip to IL this past weekend! She can also sit really well...tilts a bit if she reaches too far but she's doing better then before! She did so well on the aircrafts I couldn't believe it! Fussed a bit on take off and landing-landings were the worst for her-but once she realized nursing really did help she was fine! Matter of fact she crashed on the landing from Denver to Chicago and stayed asleep from my arms to Dana's (I got to be the pack mule), off the plane, to baggage and would have stayed asleep had I not had to change her diaper! Poor kid was so tired! She rarely fussed though, she just rolled with the flow and was an adsolute champ the whole trip!

Nov 2nd the night we arrived:

She of course won over Grandpa Brian and Grandma Lee as well as the rest of her extended family! The Falls abode had this chicken you pressed the button on and it danced around singing the Chicken Song...Dana had the song stuck in his head for days poor guy! Lol Karalee thought that was just the neatest toy ever however! Lol She also discovered a slinky for the first time ever and thought that was mighty entertaining as well! She met two of her second cousins who last time I saw were shorter then me...now they tower over me! Little stinkers! Miranda and Ariel are both in high school now and both so smart! Ariel is going to try out modeling for a bit apparently, things like the Target ads and such. We all half teased her that she's not to get anorexic on us! She laughed and assured us she'd do nothing of the kind! Miranda is working as a waitress right now but is looking to change jobs soon, I think it was for something more clerical. I know she'd be great at it!

Karalee and Grandpa Brian playing


Aww Karalee giving Grandpa loving


Karalee looking to see what I'm doing while lounging on Grandpa


Karalee and her second cousin Miranda


Great Uncle Brad and Karalee


Karalee and second cousin Ariel


Nov 3rd

We also had the pleasure of meeting up with friends of mine I had met through a pregnancy site. The first group all have babies around the same age as Karalee so it was a blast for her to have someone to play with! Mollie's little boy Teague got the brunt of Karalee's curiousity with whaps to the face! Lol Poor guy! My friend Amber welcomed us all into her beautiful home for the visit and all the babies had great fun playing with all of her little boy Mikey's toys. Mikey was a total champ and let everyone play with them with no fussing! Karalee even found his jumperoo which looks suspiciously like hers so of course she had to try it out! Lol Ashley and her husband Eric brought their little girl Gabrielle and we had so much fun playing together! We all went out to lunch at this really good little Irish pub type place, the waitress had a serious attitude but other then that we all had fun chatting! We were all amazed at how well our kids did! No one threw a fit, no one was a pain they were all just amazing! Karalee is the oldest at 6 months, then it's Mikey at about 5 months, Teague at about 4 months and Gabrielle as the youngest at around 2 1/2 months.

Karalee and Mikey playing


Amber, Mikey, Karalee and Me


Karalee, me & Mikey


From left to right: Amber & Mikey, Ashley and Gabrielle, Mollie-her little man Teague was napping-Me and Karalee


Mollie & Teague-isn't he handsome!


Amber & Mikey, Me & Karalee (you'd never believe she's the oldest tiny as she is!), Mollie & Teague, Ashley and Gabrielle


Dana & Karalee, Eric and Gabrielle-figured we'd better get a picture of the dad's so people actually believe they were there! LOL


We lined all the kids up on the couch and got a few shots before the fell over.

From left to right Gabrielle, Mikey, Karalee & Teague


This is one of my favorites, cracks me up!


That evening Dana, Karalee, Grandpa Brian, Grandma Lee, Great Grandma Falls, Great Grandma Mason, Great Aunt Christie & Great Uncle Mark all met up for dinner at this Italian place called Luigi's House, very good food! Wish I'd thought to take pictures like my friend Staci did of all the food!

Grandpa Brian & Grandma Lee with Karalee at Luigi's


Group shot taken by Dana, from left side to right side: Grandpa Brian, Karalee, Grandma Lee, Great Grandma Falls, Great Uncle Mark, Great Aunt Christie, Me


We couldn't fit everyone in the first shot so here's the continuation: Great Uncle Mark, Great Aunt Christie, Me, Great Grandma Mason


Nov. 4th

We took Karalee to downtown Chicago and while Dana and Grandpa Brian toured the area Karalee and I met up with my other friends. Naturally I had the most stuff...snuggli, stroller, enormous diaper bag etc etc, they wisely had left the kids home so were much less encumberd! Lol They were so great about helping me haul everything though which I greatly appreciated! They also got some Karalee loving as their fix until they got home to their babies! It was so great to meet everyone in person and we had a fabulous time! Sorry some of the pictures are small, not sure what I didn't do right!

Staci & Karalee


Amy & Karalee


Laura & Karalee at Johnny Rockets


Staci, Amy, Laura, Kim, Me and Karalee in front of Buckingham Fountain


Amy, Laura, Kim, Me & Karalee on bridge above Michigan river


That evening after we returned from Chicago Karalee's Great Aunt & other Gret Grandma came down tothe Falls abode to play with Karalee. GG Mason made some delcious bbq as well as having Dana make a KFC run for chicken, & GG Falls whipped up some appetizers & yummy mashed potatoes.

Karalee & the infamous chicken


Karalee & the slinky


Karalee & the slinky again


Great Grandma Mason, Karalee, Dana & the slinky



Nov. 5th

We left the Falls abode at 6 AM and got to the airport around 7:30 because Dana was afraid we'd catch bad traffic otherwise. Unfortunatly our flight wasn't until 11 AM so we had quite a bit of time to kill. We did get a few cute shots of Karalee being amused by us.











Karalee has also been giggling up a storm! We discovered a few nights ago that she LOVES if you bounce up and down in front of her going BOINGY BOINGY BOINGY, she just laughs and laughs and laughs! 'Course we pass out from lack of oxygen doing this and we start laughing with her! It's so much fun though! Dana and I both cracked up at ourselves at all the goofy things we'll do for a laugh from her!

I'll post the Halloween pictures soon as Dana makes them available to me, they hidden on his side of the computer at the moment. :-)

Halloween is coming!

Not really much to update this week. My party for Premier Designs is coming up on Oct. 28th and I'll begin taking bookings for shows then, hopefully it will work out well! I'm really excited as this is a product I've seen sell well and I enjoy wearing. Best of all in 3 to 4 shows you've earned back your initial investment so if I decide it isn't for me it'll be no harm no foul! I've got fantastic friends who are already either promoting the catalog and getting me sales that way or helping me gain future bookings! To all my friends that read this, YOU are AWESOME!

Dana and I went to the dentist and got our annual scolding about flossing. Does anyone actually enjoy flossing and actually do it as often as dentists say they should? Virtually no one I know does! Lol Also got the happy news they want us to see a surgeon about yanking our wisdom teeth. Figures doesn't it? Karalee is gearing up for teeth and her parents are losing teeth! Lol

Karalee has been doing pretty good sleep wise, goes down most nights between 8 & 9 and usually sleeps about 4 hours or so, nurses then is down for another 3 to 4 hours! It's wonderful although it took...er...takes getting used to! I keep going in to make sure she's breathing so I'm still up a lot during the night! Lol She also LOVES the cooler weather, gets so excited! Pumps those little legs, swings those arms ... usually right into whoevers holding her! Lol and gets this enormous grin! Loves to swivel her head all around so she can see everything that's going on. Karalee has tried rice cereal, banana's and green bean's so far. Rice cereal was deemed...YUCKY Banana's...mostly ok Green Beans...hasn't quite decided. She's also moved into her highchair and looks so small in there but absolutely loves it! She's getting stronger and is sitting more but still has practice to do on that. :-) She's also trying very hard to figure out crawling! She gets her legs going, then starts moving her arms but can't quite figure out how to put it all together into motion. She's been practicing petting "gentle" on Max, it's so funny to watch Max! He get's this "I love you" look along with this "why're you doing this to me" mixed in lol. He's been pretty good about it though so I'm happy. Her favorite thing to do is try to grab his whiskers and he doesn't care for that but he loves when she pets the top of his head. They're so cute together!

Speaking of cute together he and Buggy are hilarious! She'll follow him around meowing her little noggin off, rub up on him and the kicker yesterday was as he was laying next to me she comes up and starts GROOMING him!! No joke!

Other then that we're just counting down to Halloween and our trip to IL!

Here's some pictures I took of Jim & Gregg's yard, Karalee is checking out their decorations. I warn you now there's a ton of pictures!