The Wolf Family: October 2010

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Quote of the Day

"Daddy, I'm just going to take a cat snooze" - Addison

Zoo Boo 2010

Another fun year at Zoo Boo!

Little ballerina

Pumpkin decorating

Wonder Woman

I'm beginning to sense a trend - I can get super cute pics of them individually, but getting 2 kids happy, smiling and looking at the camera...nearly impossible! Addy was being a trooper, but you can tell by the look on her face that she was done trying to keep Ella from falling over and tired of her screaming in her ear!

Pumpkin Patch

We got to St. Luke's before they ran out of pumpkins this year! Couldn't get both girls in a pic at the pumpkin patch, but still got some cute ones

Super Sitter

Ella went from hardly being able to sit up by herself to doing an awesome job sitting completely unassisted. I still like to put Boppy or something behind her for a little support and there are some tumbles but she is doing great!

These links are the best invention ever - Ella could chew on them all day!

Ella loves pounding on her piano

Meeting More Family

Ella got to meet more family this weekend. Most importantly she got to meet Dottie, Fred, Dave and Vicki. Unfortunately didn't get a pic with Dave and Vicki (hopefully at Thanksgiving!) but here is a super cute one with Aunt Dottie and Uncle Fred

Update: We got a pic with Dave and Vicki at Thanksgiving. Had tons of fun hanging out with them.

Family Reunion

This weekend was the somewhat semi-annual (somewhat because the last one was 4 years ago but I think that there was one that was cancelled since the 1st) Denson reunion in Galveston. We went down on Friday and made a day of it in Galveston. Started with a nice lunch of good ol' fried seafood and then we headed to the Moody Garden's aquarium. I just love this aquarium, great size, good exhibits...they have penguins and seals, what else can you ask for!

After the aquarium we headed to the beach house to hang out with the rest of the family. Addy had a great time playing with cousin Ava. Ava is about 6 months older than Addison and Ava's sister Zoe is 2 months older than Ella. Zoe is crawling and moving all around and Ella had a blast watching her cruise around, it was super cute. Heather (Ava and Zoe's mom) and I appear to be on the same baby schedule, but we both agree that there won't be a 3rd new cousin to meet at the next one! Here is a pic of Addison and Ava

Day At The Farm

We made a family trip to Dewberry Farm which was a lot of fun. It was actually a school event, "preschool day at the farm", but the farm was crowded and it is pretty spread out so we saw some of Addy's classmates but not for long. Our wonderfully cool weather had passed so it was a bit warm but when we went two years ago it was freezing, so I definitely preferred the heat this time. Lots of fun activities, play grounds, pony rides, pig races, farm animals, corn maze...good times.

Best Dessert Ever!

Best dessert according to the two people in the pic that is!

4 Years Old

On the 15th we went for Addy's 4 year old checkup. I'm not sure if it was good or bad, but I had told her ahead of time that she would have to get shots. She was well prepared for the visit, but all morning she was saying that she didn't want shots. There were moments of tears. She did great once we got there though, got 4 shots and totally milked it for the next couple of days. There were moments when she couldn't walk because her legs "hurt" and I think everyone we talked to heard about the 4 shots she got!

Here are her 4 year old stats: height was 3 ft 3 inches and weight was 35 lbs. She also had a vision and screening test which she passed. Not really sure what the test was, the nurse took her to another room to do the test so we didn't get to watch. But no excuses for her when we ask her a question and she ignores us, or we ask her to get something and she says she can't find it but it is right in front of her face!

In honor of her 4th birthday I asked her what some of here favorites were and here they are

princess: Ariel, Aurora and Belle (apparently there isn't 1 favorite right now!)
food: macaroni and cheese
drink: milk
snack: bunny crackers
color: pink
things to do: play with Barbies and paint
story: "Ruby and Max: The Froggy Prince"
song: she wouldn't tell me anything here, the response was "the wonder woman song" -- no clue what that is and she wouldn't sing it for me, apparently it is some yet to be made up song!
thing to do at school: play on the computer
tv show: Hi 5
couple of categories she created:
favorite sea animal - mermaid and sea horse, she did clarify that a mermaid wasn't an animal, but I'm not sure how you classify it exactly so I'm leaving it here!
favorite farm animal - again, 2 tied for 1st - sheep and horse
favorite animal in the house - "Super Star"

Here are some pics from her actual birthday, we had a fun time at the zoo!

Incredibly adorable baby elephant!

We've been going for 4 years but she has never played on the playground until today.

Addy crawled through the tunnel all by herself but wouldn't look my direction when she popped up. She told me it was because her shoe fell off and she was trying to get it back on.

Posing with the groundhogs

Addy took a pic of me and Ella.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Couple of Silly Addy Pics

Star is such a good dog. Addy decided she needed some bows and a headband. Star just sat there and ate her bone as Addy pulled on her fur and stuck the bows all over.

Before Addy goes to bed at night she is really into picking out her outfit for the following day. Not just on school days, but on the weekend as well. On the weekends Michael and I don't initiate it, so a lot of time we'll put her to bed and then she'll get up and pick her outfit out herself. This is exactly how she sets things out. I especially love the undies hanging on the drawer pull with the head band on top.

Couple of Fun Ella Pics

Ella is getting really good at sitting up. Assisted of course. She can play forever just sitting with Boppy around her and with her toys at arms reach. She especially likes to throw the toys around and then she lets you know when she's ready for you to retrieve them for her!

She is into grabbing at pretty much anything within arms reach and seems to be especially fascinated with beer bottles.

Big Girl Food

Today we started rice cereal with Ella and things went surprisingly well for the 1st go-round. She woke up from her nap hungry, so I think that she would have preferred to go straight to the bottle, but she tolerated the cereal and the spoon pretty well. Encouraged enough to try again at dinner time at least!

"I want my bottle, not a spoon"

thinking about it...

A few minutes later..."Hey, not half bad"

Saturday, October 9, 2010

FPD #2

Happy 4th Birthday Party Addison!

Today was awesome! I invite you to revisit the recap of Addy's 3rd birthday party...http://bethanywolf.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-3rd-birthday-addison.html Well, today was the polar opposite! A great time was had by all, birthday girl included. The theme was arts and crafts and there were 4 activities. One was decorating luggage tags. This was a bit random, but I printed the kid's names on little cards and they decorated them and we laminated them and attached them to little tote bags I had made. I came up with this idea because I've found the few I have with Addy's name on them quite handy and I bought a laminating machine and wanted an excuse to use it. Another project was decorating small pumpkins with these cute sticker faces I got. Another was decorating picture frames with stickers. And the last was assembling and decorating the kids choice of a car or a truck. The car/truck project was completely designed and prepared by Michael - very proud of his creativeness and it was a huge success.

Addy's frame creation

Tote with luggage tag

Addy's car and some decorated pumpkins

So, the luggage tag project was kind of random, but the tote bags also served a purpose...while the theme of the party was arts and crafts, there was a Tinkerbell sub theme and we had a Tinkerbell pinata, so when all the craft projects were done we got the kids in line, gave them their bags and we went up front for pinata time. If you haven't checked out a pinata in a while, the new trend is these pinatas with strings that you pull and one of them opens the hatch that lets the candy fall out. No more swinging sticks!

Ready to pull!


Scrambling for candy.

Tinkerbell was the theme of the cake. My creativeness kicked in and fortunately the flexibility of fondant greatly compensated for my lack of cake decorating skills!