Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Week 228 and Week 140.5 - More Wisco

Sorry sorry sorry for the late post.  Yesterday I was cleaning and packing and trying to keep the kids clean and fed... and it was hard work!  I barely ate myself... but enough of the woe is me! 

Again - this will be a photo commentary entry.  One funny thing was I was goading Charlotte to eat carrots like baby Cora - telling her she ate so many carrots when she was a baby that she turned orange.  So Char cleverly retorted that Daddy ate so many potatoes when he was a baby which is why he is so white!

Here is a photo Laurie took at the Como Zoo.  My sister says they have the same mouth:

On Tuesday last week we went to Noah's Ark.  We loved it!  Sophia loved the Congo Bongo with Brooks - and Charlotte squarely rode it once - claiming to enjoy it, but only once:


Grandma Shirley took the girls to a beauty school with scary practice mannequins.  Char was Anna (a la :
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I was flabbergasted seeing Sophia with earrings:
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Fake legless fox on our condo dock:
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Fake owl:
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Girls with Brooks fishing on the dock:
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Char does arts at crafts:
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Tracie took us to a gymnastics gymnasium on one of many rainy Madison days:
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Ruby has a gymnast predisposition:
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We learned to put life jackets on the girls to ease our anxieties of them falling in:
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We took Grandma Kathy and Cora went to Sassy Cow Creamery:
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Grandgirls!
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We went to a fish fry at Sprechers - saw a band, sat by a fire, and hung out with the Bizjak kids and the Felkners:
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Saturday we went to the Jet Room for breakfast with Bob and Shirley and the newlyweds:
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More fishing:
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And Matt's last night we went to Nau Ti Gal and hung with the band:
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The Felkners!
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 We went to a cheese curd festival - and Sophia whined the whole morning and afternoon - argh!
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The kids watched Frozen together in Kenny and Tracie's bed.  So fun to hang with the Bowers!
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