I love my sister!

Ahhh... they are starting to play more together and take care of one another. Leah is such a smart baby... she will try to finish Noelle's sentences. The other day, Noelle was walking around saying 1,2,3... and before she was done with 2, Leah would shout "3". Noelle is smart too and appears to be very left brain. Leah is just a quickie and picks up everything... maybe that is just the 2nd child. You know, they have a teacher with the oldest sibling. Who knows... Mommy and Daddy decided it was because she is so smart like her sister :)

New Mickey D's

We stopped by the new McDonald's in Tontitown to meet Ronald McDonald, Hamburgler and Grimace. They had $1 happy meals, Bedfords were doing free pics with Ronald McD and giving free prizes. Our pics of Ronald will be ready until Tues... I will post later. But Leah was so facinated by Grimace that we got our pic outside with them. Noelle would not go within 10 ft of them and it took forever to get her with Ronald. However, our curious and fearless baby just smiled and stared at them... not one bit intimidated!

Fayetteville Farmer's Market

Today we were at the Farmer's market and Noelle insisted in buying some pink flowers. She wanted Berries... but our freezer is stuffed from the past few weeks of berry picking. Noelle wanted us to take her pic with the pretty pink flowers one of the ladies made for her. Then she wanted a pic with Daddy and Leah... but would not share her flowers.

Noelle's First Time Bowling!

Noelle went to bowl for the first time at Fast Lanes, a new game place in Rogers by our house. Leah tried it to but she was more interested in running down the lanes to chase balls... we had to hold her as it is bad form to go into someone's lane and get their ball from them :) Noelle had fun and beat Mommy in the first game. However, a big storm came and it knocked out the power, so the second game is still undecided.... strange how that happens , when Mommy starts to win!!!! However, it doesn't appear Mommy and Daddy have natural talent in this field of sport! Sorry you have to look sideways... I do not know why our camera does that sometimes but I cannot figure out how to turn it around.

Mommy's Little Helper... I mean Big Girl Helper!

Noelle helped mommy prepare all the veggies from the Farmer's market and clean and freeze the blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries (which we picked at a berry orchard)... although, she sat down and ate nearly a pint of raspberries on her own! She even helped mommy with the homemade chicken and dumplings (or as she calls it chicken and buttons). Look at her roll the dough like a pro.

Gym Joe's

Noelle had a blast at Gym Joe's celebrating everyone's July birthday. She was so excited when she got the two trampolines to herself.... but she did not want me on it with her... she wanted to control her bouncing "all by myself, mommy".

Silver Dollar City

We kicked off our time in Branson at Silver Dollar City. Actually, Noelle and Elizabeth kicked it off the night before at the Condo pool!

Happy 4th of July!

We all celebrated the 4th at Celebration City. We stayed late to watch the laser show, fireworks, and dance party. Darn it... I should have taken my camera so you could see Noelle and Elizabeth in action... those girls can Dance!

Leah stayed back with Mimi and Papa... she would have never made it till dark let alone the show.

Swimming at White Water!

Noelle is getting sweet revenge on Elizabeth... she will think before taking her toys again, uh? The younger ones always get revenge at some point... so Noelle is in BIG trouble with Leah!

Dance for the Golf Gods!

Noelle does a special dance when she hit the hole!

Guess who was sitting in the wet seat of the ride?

SDC is Exhausting!

As usual, our little Leah is fast asleep while everyone is riding rides. Even Papa got in on the action with Noelle on the flying dumbo rides. Of course, we had to see Veggie Tales while we were there. Noelle loves Bob the Tomato. When she hug him, she ran off crying immediately... someone got real bashful all of a sudden :) This is why Doug got into the picture because Noelle was so shy she would not take the picture without Doug. Actually, she could not look Bob in the face at all.