Happy thanksgiving

Happy thanksgiving to all!

We took this picture on my phone the other night while shopping and
thought it was too cute not to share.

apple river canyon state park

ok... so yeah.. this is a way overdue lost post... I totally thought we put something up from this little visit. I guess not...

Every year since mommy and daddy have been together, they've visited a little state park area called the Apple River Canyon State Park in Jo Daviess County. It is usually just a quick day trip to spend an hour or two taking pictures and enjoying the pretty fall scenery each October.
Mommy and daddy are trying to sort through the old pictures they have and maybe one of these days will be able to find ALL of the years of photos that we've taken there... But for now, here is this year's visit.



more pictures here..
http://picasaweb.google.com/drew.kluesner/AppleCanyon2008?authkey=NdyabYctC8M#

Day's of the week song

Thanks to the Suttmann's (Lucas's family) who shot this video at daycare yesterday. It was really cool to see them all singing the Days of the week song. I've heard about it, but now i've gotten to hear it.     

Alicia really likes watching this video as well

Enjoy!

EEG update

Quick update - Alicia's EEG results came back normal, so that is good news!  Nothing much more at the moment to report, but we wanted to share a few more cute pictures from the weekend. 

How much trouble do the kids look in the upper right picture-- I caught Carl and Alicia standing/jumping on a couch and then two minutes later, I saw them again, and instantly they were like... we're good.. we're cute as can be, we can't do anything wrong looks!  :)  how funny.. then we also got some pictures Alicia helping mommy stir up some cookies, and then Alicia pulling out the "no more pictures" paparatzi shot the other day.   

Megan's Baptism

Last week Alicia witnessed her friend Megan's Baptism. Here are a few pictures from the event. It was good to see all of the friends and family of the Suttmann's again.

You can find more pix here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/drew.kluesner/MegBaptism?authkey=sf5pNea40Fw#

From MegBaptism

From MegBaptism

From MegBaptism

Karen, if u would like any of these full sized pictures, just let us know..

EEG update

Well this week, Ali was a little trooper once again. A few months back you all might remember she had her sleep study done and basically after we had gotten the results back from that, her sleep doctor sent us to a pediatric neurologist to have a referral. The neurologist, who is affialiated with Children's Memorial, works out of the Central DuPage Hospital a few times a week, seemed pretty cool in our first initial visit with him. Because of the central sleep apnea initial diagnosis from the sleep study, he wanted to run a few follow-up tests just to make sure things are ok.  Alicia had the one done this week, which was the EEG, which basically watched the brain wave movements while she napped. Shewas way awesome there! She did just a great job sitting there while they were sticking the little eletrodes to her head! The first time she had this done, months ago, she had a fit! I guess she has "matured" a bit in age.. haha.. or it was the fact that Mickey Mouse Clubhouse was luckily playing at the same time on the tv while the technichans were attaching the electrodes. Anyways, after only being allowed to sleep for a few hours the night before since we had to sleep deprive her, she fell fast asleep after a little bit of snuggling with mommy and then daddy and then with mommy again. whew.. atleast she fell asleep and the techs got the data they needed for the EEG and we hopefully are all done with that test! Wish us luck as hopefully we'll hear back from her neurologist in the next few days! 

Here's Ali braving the EEG, "what a nice hair cap you have, my dear"   :)

afterwards, she got a sucker for being such a great patient! yummo.. "mine, mommy" was all I heard. She did not want to give that up when we got in the van to go home. Then we went out to lunch afterwards, and we decided it was a hat day since her hair was sooo crazy from all of the goo that went into it. "No need for embarassment here folks, got a bad hair day, a hat does the trick..."   

 

Goebberts 2008

A few weeks ago, we finally made our trip out to Goebbert's with the Haney family. The weather was pretty nice despite the windy and chilly temps, but really nothing too much to complain about. No snow or rain :) Last year when we took the girls, they had a pretty good time sitting in the little chairs they had there, this year, only one chair, so they had to share the sitting time ;) (See the link below for more pictures of Alicia and Samantha posing with the characters at Goebberts too!)

While at Goebbert's, the girls partook in the pumpkin lifting contest... and then Sam perfected the pumpkin rolling technique :)

Last, the girls made their way to be riding in Cinderella's pumpkin chariot. The were pretty cute. Look at our princesses...

After we got home, we wanted to see if the girls would try on their Halloween costumes, since they would not be able to see each other on the day of Halloween and to be able to share their costumes.. so the girls dressed up and showed off their costumes :) What a sweet funny monkey and a princess!

From goebberts 2008

From goebberts 2008

for More fun pictures click here...