Recent Vids

Helen walking on full display in this latest video. I think it's just hilarious when she walks behind the sofa and all you can see is the top of her head. Maybe I should teach her the "fake walking down stairs" move?

Sadly, another abrupt ending (battery troubles yet again- I gotta work on that). However, you can see she's pretty much got it down in terms of facial feature points of interest. Hurray!

Weekends around here

Must hold the red block but gotta have a free hand to push the mower. What to do? What to do?

Problem solved.

Engine trouble.

Working the cuteness.

Helen and her friend, Ely, chillin' on the porch.

Here she comes...there she goes

Recently

Two weekends ago, we packed up the Element and headed to Iowa for our nieces' high school graduation parties. We really enjoyed ourselves, seeing everyone we were able to see. Unfortunately, Helen came down with strep throat on Sat/Sun. After having spent the whole night Saturday taking turns holding her while she cried, we made our second trip to Urgent Care Sunday. We'd been there on Saturday but we were too soon and so the strep test had showed a false negative. After that terrible night, we knew we had to have her checked out again and sure enough. Poor thing. The Urgent Care doc let us know that Helen was contagious at that point so we made the difficult decision to head back to the Twin Cities and doing so, we had to miss Brittny's doin's. We were so bummed! Thankfully, we stayed at the farm packing up our things long enough that we missed the devastating tornado that went through the area.

Huge CONGRATS to Chelsea and Brittny - we're so proud!

Posing with one of our graduates, Chelsea.

Yesterday - Helen preparing for her Rockettes audition.

Yesterday - Stewart sporting Helen around the Hyland Lake play area in Bloomington. Thanks to Rob and Benjamin for inviting us to join you!

This one is for Aunt Sue:

Today - Helen, a budding artist?