Random Lake House Fun

Last week, Adam and Jes invited us to join their final weekend of vacation. Any time we can hang out with them and let the cousins hang out is a good time so of course we said yes! Here is the dance party that happened the first night...total chaos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s94CzfM8d0

And here are Sofia and Drew with the famous lake house moose.

Sofie loves cherries.

State Fair

Had a blast at the Fair last week. We took Sofia down the big slide twice! She liked it... or so we think. I definitely would not have taken her down if I hadn't talked to Ali knowing she took August down no problem. Also, going down all the slides at the Dells helped! Saw lots of animals which Sofia knew almost all the sounds to make. She really is enthralled by animals, but I guess what toddler isn't? We also went on quite the food tour as well. Let me see if I can run down all we ate. Started with some delicious flavored milk which, needless to say, Sofia really enjoyed. I think her favorite was banana. Mine was the root beer! Then we had some deep fried mac n cheese, then moved on to fried PBJ, a brisket sandwich (the only non fried thing we ate), deep fried mashed potatoes, deep fried snickers, and deep fried oreos. YUM.

Sofia's had at least a bite of almost everything. I kind of felt terrible giving her all that fried food, but it was the fair! :) Her favorite were the deep fried oreos. She is her mother's daughter after all.

Oreos...finger lickin good

Sofie drinking her flavored milk with Daddy

What's this deep fried mac n cheese all about?

post-Slide - so exciting!

Wisconsin Dells

Who knew how much fun we'd have at the Dells this past weekend?! It was Sofia's first time there, and mine as well. What a blast. We were very fortunate in that our sister-in-law, Jes was having her family reunion there and they had some extra rooms at a great rate so we decided to take advantage. I'm so glad we did - I have really never seen Sofia have so much fun. The Dells are like Las Vegas meets Disney meets water. I always had it in my head that it would be super cheezy, and maybe it is... but in an awesome vacation way :) We spent Friday and Saturday night with the fam, and had so much fun we decided to stay one more night and went to the Kalahari resort. So nice!!

We took Sofia wayyyyy off schedule but she didn't seem to mind in the least. She couldn't get enough of the water parks - it was so great! She also just wanted to play with all the kids. Perpetual motion, I tell you! I wish I could have gotten more pics of her in the water, but the way all the parks work - there's literally water EVERYwhere and my camera would have been ruined for sure! So, I'll post a few other pics.

Here are a couple of pics we took of Sofia and Addison in their matching outfits from Grandma. I can't get over how cute they are. Sofia has taken a turn from wanting to play with Drew to wanting to follow Addison and do everything she does. It's pretty adorable.

Here's Sofia coming down a slide with Daddy! I was sooo nervous do to this but I actually took her down first and Mike couldn't believe it! She loved it.... I think!

Our last day we decided to visit the Aquarium. What a disapointing, yet hilarious experience... what memories are made of, that is for sure. All that mattered is that Sofia loved the fish. Even in the murky brown water that you could barely see through. Here she is checking out the creepy fisherman.

Lastly, a video to show just how much fun Sofia had. This was 10 minutes into our drive home. She slept the whole way home! Tried to capture the snoring, but she stopped right when I started filming!

Back in Business

I know it's been a long while since I've written so instead of trying to catch up, I'm just going to add some highlights from the past couple of months and just pick up where we've left off :)

A few pics I had to show of an impromptu naked bath in the pool during our family vacation in July. Hi-larious. Sofia loves bathing al fresco.

Also, she's talking up a storm. She now repeats almost everything, it's pretty amusing. Here is an example of one of her words. Teehee....

Lastly, just to show just how funny she is. At least we think so.