Fruge Family Happenings

Greetings all! It's been a VERY long time since I posted to the blog...just lazy, I guess. but I'm going to try to do better, especially with the new baby coming. But, anyway...here's a whole bunch of random pictures from the last few months...

This first group was taken at the Field Museum in downtown Chicago. Most of the big museums downtown have days where admission is free. Usually mid-week in the mornings. Perfect for moms and kids. I have a good friend with a little girl Meredith's age, so we often get together and take the girls downtown. It's a lot of fun. The Field Museum has all the dinosaurs and natural history exhibits. They also have a children's area where kids can dress up as different animals, dig for dinosaur bones, do dinosaur related crafts and science projects, and a room with some interesting musical instruments the kids can play. Meredith loves to go there and run around.

This is Meredith pretending to be a turtle.

This is Meredith and her friend Andee. Meredith is
a turtle, Andee is dressed in the beaver costume.

Here are the girls dressing up as Cardinals.

Meredith flapping her Cardinal wings.

This is one of Meredith's favorite things.
The dinosaur puppets. She's sitting in a dinosaur nest.

They also have an area that teaches the kids about how early
man grew corn, harvested it, stored it and cooked with it.
Here is Meredith picking ears of corn (plastic ones).

And this is Meredith and Andee stacking
them in the storage building.

We're learning to love snowy, cold winters...okay, I don't think I'll EVER love snowy, cold winters! But Meredith seems to like them. As soon as she sees snow she wants to get out and play in it. I wish I could have her enthusiasm for it.

Here she is all bundled up to go to the library.
She's holding a couple of videos we were on our way
to return. The library here is amazing and has all kinds of
movies and things that you can check out. We love going
to the library. But, anyway, I think she looks so
darn cute in her little hat, gloves and coat! ;)

Meredith and Court making snow angels. This was
after our first big snowstorm of the season. About a month
before the Blizzard of 2011. Fortunately, Court seems to like
playing in the snow as much as Meredith does.

Christmas Eve 2010.
Opening her Christmas jammies from
Awna D and Geezer (Court's parents).

Wearing her Christmas jammies. We got her that
Christmas Minnie Mouse from Walgreens and she
was instantly attached to it. In fact, we accidentally left the
first one we bought at a friend's house after Christmas
Eve dinnerand she was so beside herself about it, we ended
up stopping at another Walgreens on the way home
and buying her another one.

Christmas morning. Feeding baby Ariel while
wearing her new Cinderella dress. We found the dress at
Kohl's a few days after Halloween marked way down. What a
steal of a deal! Meredith wears it all the time!

We took Meredith to see Rapunzel a day or two before
Christmas and she loved the movie so much, Court braved the
crowds and ran to Toys 'R' Us to get her this Rapunzel doll.
We were surprised that she didn't play with it as much as
we thought she would.

More pictures to come.... ;)