"Bob-mm"

As I wrote about here, my dad has several names that my kids call him. In addition to Bobu and Baldbu, now Elijah calls him "Bob-mm". He is the first person that Elijah identifies by name consistently. My parents were just here for a two week visit and after a week, Elijah started calling him "Bob-mm." He'd say it when we'd see my dad's car, too. The other day we were at a local beach (after my parents left) and Elijah approached an older man who was wearing glasses and a hat and he said, "Bob-mm!" My dad should feel very honored to be the first person that Elijah names. He doesn't even call me "Mama" yet!!!

Final Vacation Posts

Now that we've been home for a month, I finally finished up the last of our Wisconsin vacation posts. Here they are:

Back to Nana and Bobu's and a Trip to Kopp's

Another Visit to the Zoo

Visit With Carrie and Jackson

Heading Home

Now let's see if I can get caught up with birthday posts and other fun we've been having this summer! Stay tuned...

More vacation posts

Here are a few more posts from our vacation to Wisconsin.

Wildwood Wildlife Park


Wild(life) Ride

Crystal Lake

Northwoods Children's Museum

9 Years!

Today is our 9th anniversary! To see the pictures of our wedding that I posted last year, click here.
My parents are here visiting, so we'll actually get to go out and celebrate by ourselves tonight! Woo hoo! We'll have to think of something really fun to do next year to celebrate our 10th anniversary! I'm thinking that we should take a cruise to Bermuda like we did for our honeymoon. Anyone want to come and babysit?!?

Vacation posts!

Here are the posts from our vacation so far... You can either click on each one or just scroll down to see them all.

Milwaukee County Zoo
Visit with Noah and Caden
Turkeys
4th of July
A Beautiful Day
Fishing
Elmer's Fun Park
Fun in Northern Wisconsin

Stay tuned for more to come!

Heading Home

After a fun-filled two weeks in Wisconsin, it's finally time to head back home!

Visit with Carrie & Jackson

We were glad to squeeze in a quick visit with Carrie, Jackson and Paul before we had to head back home. Jackson taught the girls how to do sparklers for the first time! Sienna, Jackson and Isabella

Another Visit to the Zoo!

Ever since we watched the alpaca give birth at the zoo last week, Isabella has asked to go back and see the baby alpaca. We had one more day in Milwaukee before it was time to head home, so we went back to the zoo with Nana. Since we have a pass to our local zoo in Providence, we were able to use our pass to visit the Milwaukee County Zoo for free again. It's such a great deal!

Sadly, we learned that the baby alpaca didn't make it. This was a hard thing to explain to Isabella. One of the zoo keepers told us that they get a list of all of the animal births and deaths at the zoo, and the baby alpaca's birth and death date were the same. She wasn't sure what had happened. I wondered if something was wrong because the zoo keepers ran off with the baby alpaca right after it was born. I figured that they would have let the mother care for the baby right away.

This time the girls had pony rides (something we didn't do the week before when I was by myself!). Nana is a softie!

We also went to the sea lion show. We learned all about the differences between sea lions and seals. I always wondered...

Of course, the girls wanted to feed the goats again.

We ended our visit with a ride on the carousel.

Elijah, Isabella, Sienna and Nana

Back to Nana and Bobu's and a Trip to Kopp's

After another couple of fun days at the cottage, we headed back to Nana and Bobu's house. My friend, Mindy, met us for lunch when we were on our way home! It was a quick visit, but at least we got to see her!
In the afternoon we got together with Sarah, Noah and Caden again for some playtime, dinner and frozen custard (like soft serve ice cream-but better!) at one of my old high school hang-outs, Kopp's!!

Caden, Noah, Sienna and Isabella enjoying their custard.

Noah couldn't eat his drippy ice cream cone fast enough! Check out his hand!

The aftermath of Sienna's frozen custard experience-a chocolatey face and skirt!

Here I am with all of the kiddos.

We were so glad to get together with Sarah and her boys twice during this trip!!! We live too far away!

Wildwood Wildlife Park

Today we spent the day at the Wildwood Wildlife Park in Minoqua which has many animals that the kids could pet and even feed.
Isabella liked this giant rabbit.

The girls could have spent the entire time holding the baby bunnies!

Isabella has the same wingspan as a red tailed hawk.

Sienna's wingspan is the same as a peregrine falcon.

Here is Wisconsin's state animal, the badger!

There was a whole area where we could pet and feed deer that roamed free. This albino deer was friendly.

Isabella felt the deer's furry antlers.

Isabella and Sienna spent a long time feeding the birds. I'm not a huge fan of birds swooping around my head, so Elijah and I checked out some other animals while Nana stayed with the girls in the aviary.

It's hard to see, but Sienna has a bird on her popsicle stick, too.

We had to spend some more time with the bunnies before we left.

Sienna checked out the tortoise, too.

At the end of our visit, Nana gave each of the girls a couple of dollars to either ride the train or to buy a new stuffed animal (since Isabella asked for one-even though she already has a million). Without hesitation, Sienna chose to ride the train. After lots of careful thought, Isabella finally decided to buy a stuffed red wolf, but she had to contribute some of her own money. Every single decision that Isabella makes is only made after much contemplation. Sienna, on the other hand, always goes for the instant gratification! If you remember from Elijah's birthday celebration, Sienna was done with her cupcake long before Isabella even chose one!

Elijah waved at Sienna every time she drove past us on the train.

Elijah rode the bouncing deer with Isabella, and he cried when his turn was over. Luckily, he got to go for a second ride with Sienna. He's our go-go boy!