The one where we visit a petting farm

This weekend we went to a cute little petting farm up here with T's little bff and her family. These two girls are so cute together:

We laughed when we realized how matchy they were - right down to their sparkly shoes. T is always asking to go play with Mina, so spending a whole day with her was pretty awesome. This was such a great little farm, there were tons of things to play on and do. Pony rides cost two bucks, though, so Teresa was spared this time around. When I asked if she wanted to ride one she immediately responded "nope!".

She was willing to sit on the fake horse though.

We went on a hay ride that Nora absolutely loved. She really liked the wind in her face and was super smiley the whole time - unless Marc had the camera on her, of course. T was skeptical about the hay ride but ended up loving it, especially because it took us to a cute little mini pumpkin patch.

Sigh. I should have learned by now to have looooow low low expectations for taking pictures of Teresa. She's a little stinker and her belligerent side comes out when the camera does. At least Nora is still at the age where she's pose-able and happy to smile for the camera:

Um, I'm pretty much in love with that last picture.

We did actually get some cute shots of T, just no smiley ones:

A picture with Mom? Oh, the horrors. Actually, this pic was right after she got her diaper changed. In a pumpkin patch. On an incline. She didn't love it, but it had to be done.

And then we attempted some sibling shots:

Yeah, not so much.

After the pumpkins we got to feed some goats! T was pretty excited, because we could hear the sheep baa-ing while we were looking at pumpkins, and she couldn't wait to go see them.

The girls and their Dads:

Nora's bum:

Teresa LOVED riding on this cow train. She was so cute, waving at us most of the way around the little trail.

During the cow train Nora was chatting it up with Marc. She was jabbering at him and gesturing emphatically with her little arm, she totally reminded me of cousin Maeve.

As soon as T was plopped up there next to Humpty Dumpty she started saying "get Teresa down!". Once she was safely on the ground she was still really concerned about Mina's safety and kept asking to get her down too.

That's Mina's little sister up there with them in the pic below - she's two-ish months younger than Nora.

Didn't I tell you they were cute together?

Camping

Marc has been wanting to take Teresa camping for a while now, so this weekend he decided to do a little beta testing in our backyard. T was pretty excited because Mickey Mouse goes camping in one of her favorite episodes, so all she could talk about was going camping like Mickey.

They set up the tent in our backyard and both girls loved playing in it. Nora was so funny, I put her down in the tent and she just started wriggling and crawling all around and squealing with delight.

Sorry about the sideways video here:

It was all we could do to get T back in the house for dinner and to let Marc set up their sleeping bags. I went out to tuck Teresa in while Marc got some juice for her and she couldn't stop chattering about camping "and Daddy go inside and get some juice and come out and sleep in tent and go camping like Mickey and catch some gooey fish (like Mickey does when he camps) and sleep all night" and on and on, with a big smile on her face.

When Marc got back out they watched some Mickey Mouse and then tried to go to sleep, but T just couldn't do it. After about thirty minutes of her having to keep asking what every little noise she heard was, she declared that it was "too scary to sleep outside" so they came back in for the night. So, baby steps on the camping thing. Actually, I do think if she didn't have the option of going inside to her bed that she would go to sleep eventually, but I guess we'll just have to find out when they take a real camping trip...

On Saturday we went to a little open house at the Fire Station on base. T got to put out a fire:

She tripped on our way out to the car and one of the nice firemen tried to make her feel better by letting her sit in the truck, but she just couldn't get over the injustice of her fall, so this was her reaction:

Priceless.

This week

I chopped off most of my hair:

It's the shortest I've ever had it, I can't even put it in a real ponytail! I have to use pigtails to pull it back...

Mostly I like it, but sometimes I hate it. So, we'll see. But seriously, since I had Nora my hair has been growing crazy fast and was so hot and yucky feeling all summer. I kept getting it cut a little bit, and finally was able to commit to really cutting it short. You know, just in time for winter.

Marc tried to grow a mustache:

He's also growing out his eyebrows:

The girls were cute as ever in some matching jumpers:

And Teresa actually took a picture with me without crying and screaming through the torture:

Tinkerbell

So, a month or so ago we took a trip to the dollar store and found some fabulous wings that Teresa wanted more than just about anything else in the world. We bought them on the condition that she couldn't have them until she went poo in the potty. So they came home with us and have sat up on top of the fridge ever since. She would catch sight of them now and then and beg for them, and go sit on the potty in hopes of getting them.

And then today I totally caved and just gave them to her even though she hadn't really earned them yet.

Because I could only say no to her sweet little face saying "please, my wings Mama" so many times.

She was almost shaking with excitement to get them on and immediately proclaimed "Look Mama, I'm Tinkerbell!", followed by "Lets go fly to the park!".

She accessorized with an awesome pink head band and her princess shoes.

Now that the weather is getting cooler we've been spending more evenings outside. T was having fun flying around the yard.

Showing off her Tinkerbell skirt:

You know what she's saying here? "I NE-FER (never) get to play catch". She's so dramatic, she just NEVER gets to do anything. Anything I tell her no about is followed by her throwing her head back and saying "I ne-fer get to fill-in-the-blank". Umm, we play catch every. single. day.

Much happier now that we're playing catch.

And I have to include a picture of Nora. We got these little overalls for free at the Airman's Attic, and I just think they are the cutest things ever. Seriously, I probably make her wear them way too often, but I just want to squish her when she's wearing them!

Grocery carts, crowns, and crawling

Nora can sit in the shopping cart now! T loves it. We think they're the cutest.

Teresa is really in to princess stuff lately (shocking, I know), and after watching Tangled for the eleventy billionth time, kept asking where her crown was. After she went to bed I made this little felt one for her. It was supposed to look like Rapunzel's, but with colored 'jewels' but when I got it finished it totally ended up looking like an Indian feather/headdress/thing. Oh well, at least T thinks it looks like a crown.

Right after this picture she put both hands up and started yelling "Stop takin my picture Mom and Dad!". Darn paparazzi...

And here's a video of Nora scootin around. She does mostly army crawling still, but gets some hand and knee action in there too. She's sleeping a lot more lately, and I'm pretty sure it's because she gets such a workout moving all around the house.

I love this video because you can really see her curl-hawk. She has a ton of hair, but it's all on the top of her head. The back and sides are your normal short baby hair, and then she has piles on top.

Sisters

Swinging and giggling from Tara Milligan on Vimeo.

Can you guess what T had for dinner tonight? Ten points for the first correct answer...