just an update

I haven't been keeping up with my blog on a timely basis lately. My apologies but it has been a busy couple of weekends. I will start by saying the Meredith has become such a little girl lately! She says so many words and is stringing two and three words together finally. Some of the things she says are just so darn cute, I can't even put it into words. She loves to hug and kiss and it just warms my heart! This past year has been such a wonderful year for us - I am just loving this toddler stage. She popped another tooth this weekend so now she will have both of her lower canines. Still no sign of the top two canines though. And not a trace of the two year molars.



This past weekend I went to the horse races with Greg and Meredith. Meredith loved seeing the horses! Greg didn't win any money much to my dismay. I went to the garage sale to benefit Mary O'Keefe. You might have heard the story on WCCO last week. It's a story about a little girl who has neuroblastoma with is a type of cancer that spreads through your whole body. Her doctors estimated that she has about a month left. It's very sad and you can read more about it on their CaringBridge page.



Since they live about a mile away, I decided that I needed to go. It turns out that my friend Shannon works with this girl's mother. They are both nurses (L&D & post partum) at Fairview Southdale. Nothing was priced - you just made a donation. I got myself a nice bike trailer which looks like it has never been used.



The weekend before last was a busy one. It was full of cyber meetups. I think Greg was ready to tell me to just invite an axe murderer over. On Saturday we met with a photographer I hired off of Craigslist. She is doing free sessions to build her portfolio with hopes of having a photography business. She sent me her blog and website and looked very legit so I arranged a date and time to get our pictures done. We met at Minnehaha Park and I think it went pretty well! We get 50% off prints too and I'm supposed to get a CD with low resolution files with watermarks to share. Here are a few of the pictures she put on her blog.








On Sunday, I dragged Greg down to Rochester to meet a few of my 'mom' friends (and their husbands) from my moms forum. Two of them I have met before but one of them was up here all the way from Kansas visiting family and I was thrilled to meet her family for the very first time! I had a blast - I seriously don't know what I would do without my friends from my moms forum. Here are a few pictures from our get together.


Meredith says "Don't be jealous of my hair!"

These are Meredith's friends Bryson, Madeleine, and Reyna.