Sidney 15 Months

I will get back to the trip sometime soon I promise. In the mean time there has been two big races. . . oops!

Sidney had her 15 month Appt today.

Her weight started out at 10% when she was 2 weeks old. She is now up to 27%. This is pretty good for my kids. That is the highest she has been for her weight.

Her Length/height started out in the 25%, she is now up in the 53%!!! Holy cow!. At 12 months she was only 9%. Hopefully that was the lady measuring doing it wrong.

Her head Circumference started out at 9%, thank heavens. She has gained every time it has been measured! She almost doubled her head % in the past 3 months. She is up to the 81%. She must be a Gibson, she sure didn't get it from me!

She started walking 2 weeks ago, 4 months sooner than the other two learned. She is learning some sign language and loves beeping anyone's nose or giving high fives. She also loves "talking." She sometimes even looks and sounds like she is yelling at you for doing something wrong. She gets sad if you tell her no but can usually take it. She is almost alway happy, most everyone is jealous of that one :D She gives great hugs and is so much fun to play with.



Love you Sidney!

Random Road Side Attractions

Looks like this is going to be in reverse order of how we saw them :D

This first picture is in South Dakota on our way up to see Mt. Rushmore. Apparently we had perfect timing for the motorcycle rally:

This was also in South Dakota, it is a really large Bull head on the side of the freeway. Shrug

This says Adrian, I promise. I got this for you Adrian since we were finding all sorts of other signs. I am going to have to steal the other pictures from Josh and put them in another post. But, you Adrian, are special. You get to be the first one up on here ;)

We weren't intending to see the Jolly Green Giant, we just stopped for dinner and it happened to be right next door. BONUS! It is in Minnesota as the sign says.

We were told that while in Minnesota we had to try cheese curd. Deep fried cheese curd that is. Here is what it looks like with Mike and Henry trying them out!


We borrowed a GPS from my brother because I was paranoid about the maps that I had printed with step-by-step instructions and our phones with GPS not getting us where we needed to be. What was I worried about? My google map sure didn't have us driving right down the middle of the Mississippi river!

We have driven a long way and can assure you all that our country is in fact covered in corn. So, here we have "children of the corn" in Burlington Iowa.

After the Nauvoo Pagent we just went the path of least resistance to get out of there. But then I realized that the temple was now lit up and we would like to see it one last time before we moved on. So the GPS had us going on some strange roads to get turned around. This is the narrow dirt road that we ended up on. It was dark. It almost felt like we were lost in "Lord of the Rings" in the Fellowship when they are going through the forest and are hiding from the Wraith.

Mike wanted to go find several cemeteries while we were in Iowa and we ended up in Gibson Iowa. So here is the Post Office in Gibson Iowa. Kind of a mash-up between the Gibson's and the Golightly's.

This was right outside Amarillo. They are Cadillacs buried in the ground. If you want to see what they looked like before all the spray paint and what they symbolize, go here. It is picture number 9. We also say picture number 10 as we drove by. We would have stopped but really wanted to get to the hotel.

Our Summer 2010 Trip

This is basically what our trip was. This alone was about 4,100 miles. So add to that all the driving around town and whatnot that we had to do! Totally worth it, though we will never do something like that again. Well, maybe if the kids are a lot older and we can drive farther in one day . . .


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New Mexico

We made it to New Mexico. Here are a couple pictures that we took today. The rest are on the camera and I will do those when I get home.





Mattie and Dan are my Great Grandparents. And the school sign you ask? That school is names after my Grandma's Teacher. They apparently kept in touch for quite a while.

Zoo

Warning! Lots of pictures
My three kids and my nieces Niki and Z

The gang at the zoo.

Almost wishing we could have just played with the animals. They look so friendly.

Z

Henry

Niki

Libby

We went on a path we normally don't take. We came up behind the tigers and were able to see them REALLY well.

The Giraffes were being rather playful

I have seen people ride ostriches in movies I think, I didn't realize that they would really be THAT big.

The tortoises were rather awake and moving around a lot.

Baby Zuri! She/He is pretty cute. We went back this last weekend and Zuri was playing in the mud, even blowing bubbles in the mud. So fun to watch.

We went back that night to crash my brother's work party. Henry and Andrea.

Stephanie
Lisette, the goofball
Libby
Libby as a giraffe, her favorite animal
Henry with his brachiasoauraus. (sorry, its a dinosaur that I can't spell!)
Sidney on her first ever ride, she LOVED it!

Laundry

I had a goal today. I was going to get all the laundry done, get it all folded, AND get it ALL put away. I had that goal accomplished.


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Right up till Mike decided now that all the laundry was put away he was going to do some cleaning.


There went that goal. Does this ever happen to anyone else? Kinda makes me want to never go for that goal again.

4th of July 2010

I LOVE Sidney's look in this one:

My Family

What is with my kids and goofy faces?

I know Henry's socks don't go, but you do have to pick your battles. It adds character :D