First Haircut

So after a year of letting Nolan's hair grow to its untamed glory, I finally decided that it was time for a haircut. He was starting to look like a little hippy! So we purchase a new quieter set of clippers and let Kenny do what he'd been telling me he could do for weeks. We kept Nolan entertained with a bouncy ball and the results turned out quite nicely. Good Job Kenny!

Before the cut...

Nolan is sad to see all that hair go!

What a handsome little guy!

Lights on Festival

A couple of friends, their kids, and Nolan and I started the Christmas celebration off a little early this year with Milwaukee's downtown "Lights On" festival. It was on Nov. 15-the week before Thanksgiving-but we just couldn't resist the idea of bundling up our little ones and trekking into a downtown park full of people! It was really rather fun, even though we spent most of the time trying to keep mittens on and blankets wrapped around the kids. There was a program with local talent and then a pretend Santa Claus and his sleigh made the descent down to the stage at the culmination of the "Santa Claus is coming to Town" song. We tried to overlook the fact that the cable system that he was on hung up a few times and proved to be a rough and slow ride for Santa but when he finally arrived he set off a huge fireworks show that was quite impressive!

Kristin & Adam, Echo & Nolan

Shandra & Amy

Trick-or-Treating @ MCW

The Medical Student Spouse & Significant other Association (MSSA) and the medical school hosts a great trick-or-treat party at the school every year on Halloween and it is quite impressive! At 3:30pm the administrative offices pretty much shut down and open their doors to all of the wives, kids and friends of the medical students. They had great decorations, mock spook alleys that were kid friendly and handfuls of candy, crackers, toys, pencils, playdoh,more candy, fruit snacks and just about anything else you could think of, stashed around the four different floors of the medical school. It was so much fun to see all of the other kids and parents and the med school employees were so nice and had so much fun with the kids. Luckily the anotomy lab that Kenny and our other friends were in got finished just in time for them to join us for a few more stops and the party in the cafeteria. We will definitely look forward to this every year-sure beats walking around in the cold!

Testing out the costume in the back yard.


I dressed up as a Zookeeper-pretty accurate I thought. Notice the Tootsie Pop tightly clutched in Nolan's hand-he had his chest and hands pretty sticky by the end but he sure loved it!

Kenny showing off the little monkey to some friends.

The great candy haul-most of this was fruit snacks and goldfish which was great because then Nolan could actually enjoy most of it!