Leaf Animals

I love North Dakota.  I love the plains, the open spaces, the beautiful skies, sunsets and sunrises, the wind, etc.  But North Dakota does not have trees.  We live around so many trees here and in the fall, they are GORGEOUS!!!  No one can paint the colors like God paints.  Elliot and I started gathering leaves and I had piles of papers and books filled with leaves.  Andre kept wondering when I would clean up my mess! :)

 

We finally cleaned up and here is what came out!  I got almost all the ideas off the internet, but each animal is unique because there are different leaves everywhere!  Just wait until next year--there will be more books and papers with leaves in them! :)

 

Our turtle



Aren't these just cute??!!!



Make two different peacocks...not sure which one I like better.



The owl!  My favorite!!



 

Some sort of bird.

Just the Past Few Days

 

Snug little bug

  

Courtesy of Elliot

First carrots

He wasn't too sure about these carrots...

Elliot took a picture of me whistling.

The first snowman of the year! The snow only lasted about two days.

Different Stuff

Let's start off with a video of Nolan--not such a happy camper!

 

 



Oh, a camera...



Let me see in I can put my finger in my mouth...



Mommy's cheek tastes so good!!!

 

Nolan's two new tricks!

 



We got out the high chair and propped him up--he loves it!

Having fun with Papi!

 

Elliot's new trick!

 

Climbing Trees and 4 Months Old!

I never climbed trees because I am from North Dakota--no trees there.  And Dad wanted the trees in the yard to grow straight--with one sturdy trunk!  Ha!

 

Sunset last night

4 months old!



My loves!

Making Soap

Diana always has neat ideas and she brought soap stuff with her when she came to visit.  Elliot mixed all the colors and glitter--we got some interesting combos.  The dolphin has a blueberry smell and is yellow with silver glitter. :)

The results

The dolphin--Elliot dumped a whole little tube of glitter. :)

This one turned out the best, I think.

The fish.

The teddy bear.

Andre's Birthday

Elliot and I had a lot of fun getting things for Papi's birthday ready.  I baked cupcakes for his colleagues and Elliot was so disappointed to see them gone the next morning.  I had a little cake in the freezer that we decorated for the afternoon and he was happy with that. 

 

We went to the flower shop and I let Elliot pick out one flower for Papi.  He picked out the white rose.  Nolan picked out the pink rose with Elliot's help. ;)

 

Elliot was so excited that it was Papi's birthday.  Maybe you can catch a little of his excitement even if the videos are mostly in German.

 

 

We think this is one of the best videos of Elliot we've ever taken. :)

Catching Up

 

Elliot needed pancakes for supper the other day, so I said yes.  I wanted to do something special for him--I had some metal cookie cutting forms and it worked out okay, but for several reasons, I  probably won't do it again.  The biggest reason is because when we sat down at the table (I was pretty proud of myself), Elliot said, "What is this?  I want ones like you, Mommy."  What did I have?  Normal round, plop them in the pan pancakes.  Go figure.

Momma Teddy is helping make pancakes.

Elliot's collection of balloon rabbits and one mouse.

The reason I am not losing weight--fried sweet bread!  Yummy!