Harvest Fest 2008

I'm finally getting around to putting the pictures up from the Harvest Fest a couple of weeks ago. Clarissa enjoyed the activities a lot more this year. Here are pictures of just a few of the activities.

This would make a perfect Christmas Card picture, except that it would be missing our new little guy.


Just like last year, Clarissa wasn't fond of the clowns....



...but she loved the elephant he made her. She played with it so much it popped before we got home.


Clarissa loved petting and hugging the animals. I think the animals were probably her favorite part.


Painting a baby pumpkin with daddy.

Of course she had to play on the playground, which was more interesting than eating lunch.

Hugging the corn, I guess it gave her good luck as she was getting ready to toss it into a ring.

She was a pro at getting the ring around the pumpkins. Maybe next year she was stand back a little and actually toss the ring.

We went on a bumpy hay ride, hoping it would have put me into labor! Obviously no luck, but it was still fun.

Time Out!

Clarissa's Monkey and Froggy haven't been sharing so well lately, so she has had to put them in time out.

The other day she was helping her Monkey push her baby stroller, and then I heard her say "no, no Monkey, Cissa's turn". She promptly dropped him on the floor and started pushing the stroller herself.

Quote of The Day!

Clarissa: "I want to wear mommy's tummy"

If only that were possible! I have just over 2 weeks left until my due date, Yeah!!!!

Gigi

Here are a couple of pictures from Clarissa's birthday party in June with her friend Gigi. They are such good buddies, but unfortunately Gigi moved in August.

I can tell Clarissa misses her, she is always talking about her. Last night at about 3 am Clarissa woke up and was awake for a while. As I was laying by her she kept talking about random things, and then she mentioned Gigi. So, even in the middle of the night, she still remembers her little friend and misses her. Clarissa loves you Gigi.

Other than Clarissa's hand in her face (trying to keep her sunglasses on), I thought this was a cute picture of her. She loves dressing up with her glasses, necklace, and bracelets!

Just like her shirt says, she loves her grandma, both Grandma Judy and Grandma Connie. She misses you guys and today was talking about Grandma's house. I'm not sure who's house she had in mind at the time, but both are fun! She loves you both and especially loves talking on the phone with you.

Dinner Conversation

Dad: "Clarissa, do we have a good family?"
Clarissa: "Good Family...funny."

A Visit to the "Doctor's House"

Last Saturday Clarissa tripped over a cement block in the parking lot. Everything seemed fine until Tuesday when she stopped walking on her left foot. She resorted to crawling, and would cry if she had to walk on it. Wednesday morning we decided to go to the doctor to have it checked out since she still wouldn't walk on it. On our way there I told here we were going to go see the doctor. She kept saying "doctor's house, doctor's house". I guess in her little mind when you go to visit someone, you go to their house.

Her foot was a little swollen so they decided to do x-rays. She was a brave girl even though I couldn't sit with her since I am pregnant. The most painful part of the visit was a flu shot that I decided to have her get at the same time to save a trip back to the doctor. A sucker and 3 stickers later she was a happy camper. There ended up not being anything wrong with her foot, just a little sprain or pulled muscle. She is walking just fine now. Thank goodness she didn't have a broken foot, that's all I would need with a new baby coming!

Harvest Fest is Coming Up

Last year we went to a Harvest Fest at Prairie Farms. I found out that it is coming up next weekend, the 18th. I'm excited to take Clarissa again. She enjoyed it last year, but I think she will enjoy it even more this year.

There were a lot of fun activities for the kids, like painting pumpkins.



They could pet the animals.

Clarissa wasn't a fan of the man dressed up as a scarecrow that made balloon animals.

Searching for candy in a haystack.

Going for a hayride with some friends.

I hope there are as many fun activities this year as there were last year. Hopefully we will also see some of our friends there!

A Fun Surprise for Daddy!

Quinn rides the bus to and from school everyday. Clarissa has ridden with him a few times and loves the bus. The past few months I have always thought that it would be fun to hop on the bus in the evening with Clarissa and surprise Quinn. My plan was that we would be sitting on the bus waiting for him that he would hop on to come home. We were quickly running out of time, I wanted to do it before it got to cold, and before we have our baby. So, yesterday, I decided to do it.

Clarissa and I hopped on the bus headed for campus. The bus driver was nice and asked if we needed to transfer to a different bus. So I told him "we are just going to be riding trip ride as long as my husband gets on this bus." He looked at me and said, "do you know where he gets on because the bus has been re-routed today because of the homecoming parade tomorrow?" I couldn't remember the name of the street that Quinn got on, so now I had to decide if I should call Quinn and ruin the surprise, or just hope that he knew about the bus being re-routed. I finally decided that I just better call him just to be safe, and he would still be surprised that we were on the bus. So I asked Quinn if his route was different because of the parade, and he had no idea, so I told him we were on the bus and that it wasn't going to pick him up where he normally got on.

So, after a lot of worrying on my end that we wouldn't be on the same bus, and a bit of running on Quinn's end, he was barely able to catch the bus at a different location. It was still a fun surprise, but not as much fun as if we had just been sitting there waiting for him. But at least this way he was able to get on the bus. Had we not ridden it and found out about the route change, he would have waited at his bus stop for a while wondering why his bus never came!

We decided to make a fun evening out of our bus trip and stop at the KFC across the street from our house for dinner. Then we got some treats at the store to have while we watched a movie last night, we had rented Iron Man, then we had a nice walk home. Even though things didn't turn out quite as planned, it was a fun family outing, something different from our usual boring Friday nights at home.

Hair Bows

My friend Becca taught me how to make hair bows a few months ago. It has been a lot of fun to make bows that match Clarissa's outfit. She will actually leave these bows in! If there is anyone that lives close by (or if you are willing to come visit) I would be happy to teach you how to make them. They are a lot cheaper then what you buy at the store, plus you can make the exact colors that you want. Just let me know if you are interested.

3rd Times The Charm

I finally had success making chicken tikka masala, see previous post. It only took me eight months to decide to try it again! This time it actually turned out like it was supposed to, not to sweet and not too SPICY!!!