Chocolate Pudding

My mom thought it would be a good idea to let Natalie paint with chocolate pudding. She even bought us some to try. I put it on Natalie's tray to see what she would do. At first she wasn't sure but once she tasted it she loved it. I love Ryan feeding it to her on the video. Especially because he was the one telling me not to do it because it would be too messy.

Coloring

This weekend we colored for the first time with out eating the crayons. Saturday I gave her some fat crayons that my mom gave me and she loved it. She also loved coloring her highchair tray. Magic erasers take crayon off of anything :) Then today I got her some of the markers that can only draw on the special paper. She loved it. It did take her a while to figure out that you can't color unless the cap is off. She loved scribbling all over "mouse" that is Mickey. She made some beautiful scribble pictures.

Summer is over

I can't believe summer is over. I have been so busy starting school. And to make matters worse I was in a car accident the night before kids started school. I have been without a car since Aug. 18th. We are all okay, it was just me in the car. Well on a happier note here are some fun pictures from the end of the summer.

The princess has a new throne.

Ryan bought Natalie her first car!

Natalie loves her puppy Zoe. And Zoe tolerates her very well.

Natalie's hair is kind of long enough for pig tails :)

Playroom

I finally found some of the wall stickers for Natalie's playroom. I think they turned out cute. There are butterfly's all around the room. Then there are little flowers and bugs at the bottom of the wall.

Summer Fun!

Juliana's 5th birthday party!
We went to Juliana's part last Saturday it was a lot of fun! Natalie really loved playing in the water. Happy Birthday Juliana!

Fun at the Fair. We had a great time seeing all the animals at the fair. Natalie would say moo to all the animals. She loved seeing her cousins Andy's pigs. She also got to pet some pigs and bunnies. She did say quack quack to the ducks.

Today we went to the park with Marcy, Aidan, Kara and Corinne. We had a great time. We went to Avanti's for lunch after. They were a little slow!

2 more pictures

I had to post 2 more pictures. I love this picture with Natalie and her grandpa, who she calls Papa.

Here is Natalie's cute dress. She loved wearing this dress. When we first put it on her she held up the sides and said "Pretty Pretty" Don't I have the cutest baby ever.

Great Grandpa Peterson

Thursday Ryan's grandfather Erv Peterson passed away. We will really miss grandpa! We are lucky that we just had a wonderful vacation with him and the rest of the family in June. This is one of my favorite pictures of Natalie and her great-grandpa. She just went running to him this day. He was so excited to see her every time we visited.

Here is Natalie with all her cousins, from youngest to oldest. Natalie, Ethan, Collin, Andy, Hannah, Sydney, Zach and Alli. Natalie loved getting the time to play with all of her cousins over the past few weeks. She will really miss them.

Natalie and the boys!

Just the girls!