It's November!?

Yikes! How time flies. I'll try to do a quick run down of the last few months. And before I forget, can you believe Ella turned 18 months yesterday!? Yay!! She's so much fun. But more about her later.

My camera is being dumb and it won't turn on. I don't know if I need a whole new battery but I feel like I just bought one, so I'm not sure. Anway, there are no Halloween pics yet because I had to use a disposable camera and I've yet to get those developed. Hopefully this weekend.

Anyway, so the last time I think I mentioned our wasp infestation. Well here are some pics.

Peter armed and ready. You can see where we (actually just Peter) cut a whole in the ceiling to get to the nest so that we could finally get rid of them.
Here is what he pulled out from inside the ceiling. You can kind of see the comb like stuff that's the next. The bright yellow spots are the wasps (dead).

The window sill in our bedroom. AHHHHH!!!

Close up of the hole he cut. To the left you can see a tiny little hole. That's the hole that they originally made themselves and got into the house. We had taped over that and sprayed hoping they would just leave, but as you could tell, they had a pretty nice nest going so we had to do a bit more work. So we've patched the hole and caulked all of the little openings on the outside of the house. Hopefully that should do the trick and we won't have any little visitors next summer.
About a month ago, Tina was housesitting for a friend who owns a boxer. Her name is Karma. She's about 8. Tina brought her over one night so Koa and she could play. They got along really well. It was fun to see Koa with a friend.

We had just thrown some chicken bones away and they were over there scouting out the goods. Karma's in the red collar.

How silly! Karma's on the right. Ella was pretty funny. She would have to do a double take to figure out who was who.

This was taken quite a while ago, but I've been wanting to get it on here so everyone could see how cute they are! Connor just cracks me up.

Ella has started to use the walker now more than she ever did when she actually needed it! Look at those long legs! Ha. She looks so silly in it, but she just tools around upstairs like it makes perfect sense for her to be using it!

Blake played another season of baseball this summer. They were the Purple Dragons this year (even though Blake voted for the Rockies). He was awesome! He was the talk of the team for awhile after he hit a monster triple in to center field!! It was way cool. He's also going to sign up for basketball this fall. This will be his first season playing. Hopefully he likes it as much as he likes baseball.

The last pics are just random ones of Ella. She loves to sit at the computer and play. For some reason this day she wanted to wear this hat, which is actually an infant hat so we really had to squeeze it on her head. But she would freak out if it came off, so we just kept putting it back on her!

Out in the backyard leaves.

Squishy, puffy cheeks

Doin' a puzzle

More crazy hat time.

She has gotten so big over the last few months and has started doing and saying tons of big kid things! It's crazy. She says mommy, daddy, Blake, Koa, Gramma, Papa, doggy, milk, blankie, shoes, socks, more, cat, balloon. And of course if she can't say it she just screams! She follows instructions really well and is very concerned about things being in the right place or with the right person. So if she sees one of our cell phones she has to bring it to us and we can't just set it back down or she'll had it back to us until we put it in our pocket. She will also take Peter's wallet and try to put it in her pocket! She can figure out how things work pretty quickly as well. I brought a laptop home from work and it took her about two seconds to figure out where the power button was.

Her 18 month appointment is next week. I'm guessing she'll be a tad skinny for her age, but we'll see. I'm not too worried about it, she's an eating machine!

I'll try to post this weekend if I get Halloween pictures.