Happy Birthday Jade!!

Well, our baby girl is 2! She is such a great girl, really funny, and goofy.

She loves to wrestle with both Dan and I. She can't get enough of ring around the rosies, or playing on the playground.

She loves reading books, some of her favorites are Goodnight moon, The Tooth Book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Counting Kisses, and the list goes on and on.

She can say a few words really clearly, like hi, bye, back, go, book, mall, daddy, momma, bath, meow, outside, snack, shoe, sock, toes, Jadey, more, hammock, and then there are a bunch more words that I think only Dan and I understand. :)

We had a party for her at our apartment playground. Unfortunately, we didn't charge the battery for the camera beforehand so we only got two pictures.

We did some coloring with sidewalk chalk, Jade seemed to have fun with it, but also wanted to eat it.

The day of her birthday we went to the Mall of America where they opened a new butterfly exhibit. It was smaller than I thought it would be but still neat. You can tell from my pictures that you could get pretty close.



We got to meet Spongebob!
We're so happy to have a cutie pie like Jade as our daughter. Love you Jadey Jade!!

Summer's End

Sadly folks, summer is coming to an end here in Minnesota. The leaves have already started changing this week. Our last week of summer has been a lot of fun. Here's a picture of Jade "cheesing" it up for the camera. Here we are at Dan's cousins' baseball game. His team lost but he played hard and was a good sport.
The Minnesota State Fair is a big deal here so we thought we'd see what all the hub-bub was about. We took the bus from a stop near our house. Jade seemed to think it was pretty cool to be riding on a bus, although she kept wanting to stand up.
This is the only picture we have of us actually AT the fair. This is the only ride Jade went on, she's still sort of small for even wimpy rides. This one seemed like it would be fairly boring, however, maybe we should have watched it before we got on. It went up and down and around, by the end Jade was crying. :(
We love having a pool at our apartment complex, it's the best rainy day activity. Jade always tries to get into the hot tub though, so we usually just spend half of our time over at the hot tub with our feet dangling in.

Well summer, we'll miss you. Don't leave us......we're scared of winter.