It's a Ball World

Arianna has a few favorite items, but the one thing that she loves to play the most is the "ball" (or "da-l" as she calls them)... As you can see we have a couple, and sometimes we cannot find a single one of them :) hmhm... I guess we need to get a few more. She also loves her doll. I guess we are not gender oriented; dolls, trains, cars, blocks, etc... everything goes.

Arianna's "New" Desk

We went to Frankfort on Sunday. It was a nice day even though it was raining a bit. We started by going to the Fresh Market they have every Sunday until the end of October then we went to a barn style mall - very quaint- we had not been there in a long time. I don't even remember when it was the last time we went. They used to be antique stores and arts and crafts style stores. Unfortunately, most of the stores and a nice used book store were gone. They did have a new guitar store. Of course the guitar I liked costs 7ka. I think I will keep admiring it only :) They also have a new place for kids- some kind of museum and arts and crafts activities for children. Pretty cool, but it was closed. We looked through the windows.



















The one store that caught our eyes was selling all of their stuff at 50% because the owner was retiring after 12 years of business. I found a nice decoration for the wall - a set of 4 small bird theme plates with the hanger (all I need is a nail to display). Also, a couple of nice cards (like birthday cards), and I was very tempted to buy a small tiffany lamp style - but I did not.
What we did buy is a beautiful desk for Arianna! Check it out.
Hopefully she will like it for awhile. It looks like a small version of my "desk", so maybe one day we can do something together. :)

Fall is here...

I know that summer ended awhile ago, but the weather was still pretty nice. These pictures I took last Monday when I was waiting for Mike to come from school. It was the first day that got a bit cold for me (wearing short sleeves, and no sweater), and I realized that I had not paid attention to my beautiful flowers in the front of the house. Pretty soon they will be gone and I decided to share with you. They are dahlias - two types- I forgot there specific names, but they are huge and beautiful!



I think Mike was confused to see me outside taking pictures. I went outside just a few seconds before I saw him coming into the driveway. Talk about timing...

Arianna's Recent Activities

This is a picture for Ann and Barry. I left the merry-go-around toy on the floor while I was cleaning, and she liked it. I caught her playing with it.
Around and around it went... (Mini-update : She is doing a lot better, at least she is able to keep the food in her tummy. I am still giving her light foods and hopefully we can be back to normal pretty soon - food wise).












Halloween is coming and I bought some pumpkin heads for my sister's kids that are not going trick or treat (I am putting some candy in the pumpkins for the kids). I left them in one of the corners of the dining room. Next thing I know they are closed to Arianna's play mat with lots of toys in them. mmmhh... I wonder if I have gremlins in the house! :)






It's a bucket world! Yep, my cabinets are no longer safe with the super power of Arianna's hands! All her toys end in my Tupperware, you know...blocks, babies, books...












This is her new "winter coat" for when it is cold, but not freezing! She got it as a gift in her birthday from her Uncle Tony and we love the color and she loves her big buttons. We still need to get her a new snowsuit for this winter since all the ones she has are no longer her size. My baby is growing so fast.
























We had gone to McDonald's a few times now with Arianna, but this is the first time that she played with the slide and had tons of fun like you can see in these two pictures. We had a hard time leaving the place, she wanted to keep going up and down. I took some video that I will be posting later.

We also went outside sometime last week and she decided to be a "child" and played with gravel and dirt. She kept going up the stairs (by herself) then I will help her down and she will played again. She loved it and after getting really dirty, we went inside to take a shower and to have dinner so she could go to sleep. You'll see how tired she was when she was going to eat. (Yes, that is one of her grandparent's coaster...the other one still is MIA)

Oh, puke....

It has been a few hectic days, so time has gone pretty quickly so no posting lately. After Arianna's cold (much better from that) today she threw up after having lunch. First time ever that she throws up! I am not sure what got her sick :( , but she was in good spirit (meaning we were playing with toys). After Mike came from school, we tried to give her some liquids (some milk) which I guess was not a very good idea in retrospect and a few crackers, but she threw up that as well. Thankfully she was able to sleep and get some rest. We went to check on her after about 1-2 hr. after she felt asleep, and she woke up (I blame it on our creaky floors). She loves water (more than juice), so I was able to give her some much needed liquid and some rice cereal. I could tell she was hungry for more than cereal, but I did not want to upset her stomach. Hopefully, she will be better tomorrow. I think there is a bug going around. Mike felt sick to his stomach too (and no, they did not eat the same thing) :\