Not much news but lots of pictures

Only thing new is that we are being forced to get rid of our cats. Her doctor thinks that, contrary to a lot of published studies, some of Natalie's health problems could be related to the cats. We were not happy to hear this but in the same breath happy to know of a way to fix the problem. We have contacted the non-kill shelters in the state as well as assisted living places and traveling nurses to see if they have any patients that would like some low maintenance cats. Hopefully we can find them a good home in the next week or so. On to pictures...

These are from our camping trip a couple of weeks ago.


My boss and her son

These are from a cook out we had at our friends Dawn and John's house
Dawn teaching Natalie how to hula hoop

Natalie trying it on her own

Dawn and John's son Ben


These are from our trip to the zoo.


Natalie loved the bears all of the animals made this noise though




These are from my Grandmothers 85th birthday.




These are from another trip to the Children's Museum.


My dancing queen




Talk to you all soon!

Children's Museum

Hi there,

Thought I would share with all of you the pictures from last weekend. We went to the Children's Museum here in town. Indianapolis has the largest Children's Museum in the country so we thought that we would see what little miss thought. Dale Chihuly has an exhibit there right now that is absolutely amazing!!

This sculpture is 4 stories high and weighs 18,000 pounds. It was beautiful!!

These are pieces from him that are under the picture above... you can sit on a revolving circular couch and it makes it like one large kaleidoscope.


Here are just some random shots through out the day


Her cousins Aidan and Griffin







These are from mothers day brunch. not good but she did look cute!



Camping this weekend so more pictures next week!!!

What.. What's that you say... You want more pictures of Natalie... OK

A Day a Week... WHATEVER!!!

Sorry!!!!

Well here we go. …

Not a lot has happened in a month. Grandpa Mike came for a visit last week and pictures are coming soon. Natalie got her second round of tubes and will probably have to go back for more in about 6 months. I went on a cruise with my best friend Jennifer and left Natalie home with Dad, pictures to come once they are developed. Here are the pictures that you have all been waiting on.

Dad and Natalie came to my office for a visit.


This is Natalie's New boyfriend, his name is Levi Leipheimer, he is a cyclist. This is his website http://www.levileipheimer.net/index.htm I know what you are all thinking, there is no way that she knows the difference. WRONG!!! she will sit with Joe and look at the magazine he is on and smile, say HI and wave at him. She even gives him kisses. We are going to send this to Levi for an autograph for her.




Natalie went to her first birthday party over the weekend for her cousin Aidan, he turned 4. Party was at Gymboree, she had a great time!


Random pics

Update coming tomorrow!

I know I am a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mother but I need to get my picutes all in order to post tomorrow. Check back... Thanks!

FOREVER... I KNOW!!!

I know, I know, It has been forever. There are some not so good reasons and then there are the legitimate ones.

First the not so good ones… there was nothing going on… the good one, she was really sick.

In the last month she has had spirit week at school where they got to dress up different each day. Natalie missed Wednesday and Thursday due to Pink Eye. This was crazy hair day.




Yep I let my daughter out of the house looking like this!!!

Natalie is one!!! We had a party for her the weekend of the 18th. She had a great time. Nana came in town and took some pictures but I do not have them yet… She had a Dora the Explorer party and was not too fond of her cake. All of her gifts talk and make all kinds of noise. She got an Elmo from her Aunt Megan that actually talks to her. It says 'Good morning, Natalie' and ' Natalie's favorite food is grits, Elmo's favorite food is grits too' You can not turn this thing off but you can reprogram it. She also got another talking Elmo that she seems to like better, I think it is because it does not call her by name. Nana got her 2 books and she LOVES books as well as a "special" outfit, you will have to wait for pictures to see this one! She also now has her OWN cell phone that you can program. She still knows that it is not the real deal and prefers ours.

On Wednesday of last week she went to school and then went to the gym with Daddy, got home ate dinner and then the "FUN" started. She was getting ready to go to bed and she just started projectile vomiting. In fact, she got a friend of ours that was over for dinner. We thought it was a one time deal… we were so very wrong. She missed Thursday and Friday from school and did not do anything but sleep all weekend. The only outing was a trip to the ER for fluids since she could not keep ANYTHING down and she had a fever of 105. She is feeling much better today. Yesterday she was still not feeling like herself and slept a lot at school. Out of the 5 kids in her class 3 of them have had this virus and the other 2 are still out. Joe just called and he is going home sick… I hope he does not get this!!!

Like I said she is back to herself now and making her latest face….

She has taken a couple of steps but nothing committing to walking yet. I will keep you all posted.

Hope everyone is doing well!!

Ouch....

Monday at school Natalie had her first accident. She was playing in the ball pit and fell onto the side where there was some velcro. She scrapped her nose on the side and now has velcro marks on her nose and one on her jaw line.