I Blame the Touch...

I feel like I haven't blogged in forever. Drew's touch is way too convenient. I can check everything in the palm of my hand. So the desktop has been being neglected and thus so is the blog. Fall is here and we're getting back into our routine. On Tuesdays I'm taking the kids to music makers (a way cute music class), on Wednesdays we go to toddler time at the library (we get to sing, march and hear a story), and on Thursdays we have playgroup. Randomly we work in the zoo, children's museum and parks. So we're alive and running all over Lincoln.

My adorable Molly is now 2 1/2.
I decided that Molly's old enough to potty train. That's what we've been working on. aaaahhhhh. Molly can seriously hold it ALL day. We've made some progress; we've only had two accidents. But after staying home ALL weekend I decided that I needed to get out Monday. So we went to the zoo....
I'm not sure what you 'd call this (see picture below). It's a box made out of plywood that has a bunch of looking holes at all different levels. I think it's a cool idea. It's overlooking a little pond that contains a bunch of exotic birds. This is a picture of Molly and Gabe modeling what you should do. Right after I took the picture Molly turned and gave me one of her I have a great idea smiles. (That smile means one thing... trouble.) Molly ran full speed into the wall at the other end. I swear the whole thing shook. Gabe thought it was hysterical so he was laughing and clapping, which echoed quite nicely. Gabe's laughing was all the encouragement Molly needed to take off for the other side. I swear one day someone is going to ask us to leave. I couldn't see the animals, but I'm sure they were scared that a crazy two year old was going to come through the wall to kill them... yikes.


We went to the children's museum last week. One of Molly's favorite stations is the face painting. Go figure. Here she is with freckles (I have a bunch of freckles that Molly is very interested in. Molly has one freckle on her leg.) rosy checks and blue eyes. Priceless.

A picture of Gabe courtesy of Molly. Nice angle huh? :)

A lady from church invited us over to pick apples. Molly kept calling it apple jack (after the parade we went too. apparently it made quite the impression).

Mike is in the tree throwing the apples down to Drew. Drew was catching/bagging them. I loved the creativity/teamwork.

We went to the Apple Jack Festival in Nebraska City a couple weeks ago. I'm a little embarrassed to say that it was the kids first parade. Lame parents I guess... Molly and Gabe LOVED it. It was the longest parade that I had ever been too. I think it was 2 1/2 hours. It was full of marching bands. Gabe danced. Molly waved. After the parade we went to the Arbor Day Farm. There we had yummy carmel apples, and apple slush. Sadly I didn't take any pictures after the first 1/2 of the parade, but I'm sure you can imagine all the apple goodness.

Go Huskers!

I went to my first Husker game today. Its great being in the sea of red. It was pretty easy to pick out who was with Arkansas. Being in the student section really made me wonder. Was I that naive and ridiculous looking to people around me when I was in college a few years ago? hmmm. (And for anyone who knew me in college I'm not interested in hearing about how I was ridiculous. I know. It's a rhetorical question.) I'll say that it was a good game. It was a blowout 38-9. How could that not be a good game? But, I always think it's more exciting when it's a close game. I'm looking forward to the next game that Drew scored me a ticket too. UNL vs Oklahoma.

Us about an hour before the game.
After the first touchdown people release balloons. It's really cool looking. Even though this picture doesn't capture it... Notice how the seats have filled in. It was the 299th consecutive sold out game. Here football is king.

And special thanks to Jana and Brad for watching our kids!

While we're speaking of kids I'd like everyone to know that Gabe is now a walker! He isn't graceful, but finally the day has come. Everyone kept telling me that everyone walks eventually, but I knew better. I've seen those commercials for specials on the discovery channel about these families in third world countries that walk on their feet and hands. I'm so happy that we'll never be in one of those specials. :) The Wilkerson's are a family of walkers. Now if we could all just use the potty... I guess one accomplishment at a time.

mmmm We Love the Berries!

On Labor day the Anderson's invited us to go to Marin's Hillside Orchard with them. We picked raspberries and apples. yum.

The State Fair

We went to the State Fair on the 4th. I love fair's. I love being around big groups of people with a ton of different things going on in every direction. Molly really liked the animals. Especially the cows. When we were camping last month she kept telling us "I a cow, moo" we would have to address her as Molly cow so that she would do what we asked. She still tells us that she's a cow on occasion. She got a kick of mooing and being mooed at. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of that, but here are some others....

Now what would a state fair be without food? Probably a lot healthier that's what. But you only live once right? My justification. We tried fried oreos and a fried peach. The oreos were a lot better than I expected and the peach was disappointing.

Drew with his peach. I was expecting something closer to cobbler. Maybe if it had fried longer the peach would have been softer? Ah...

Who wouldn't want to climb through a cement pipe?

Some neat tractors. Come on it's Nebraska. We had to take some pictures with farm equipment.

There was a band playing. I don't remember their name, but Gabe thought they were hands down the best thing ever. He was laughing and dancing. He's proud to be wearing the bands sticker. They kept saying "we aren't pirates were farmers from Nebraska, look at our overalls". I must admit they did have some pretty clever lyrics.

They look like farmers don't they?

quick visit

Julie, Beth, Kurt and Ethan drove through Lincoln at the beginning of the month on their way to Idaho. They spent a day with us. It was fun getting to see them. We took them to the Sunken Gardens. (Julie is a hort major I knew she'd appreciate it) Then we went to the "big big park" behind the children's zoo. After that it was time for naps all around and visiting.
Before anyone comes to visit I always pull out pictures of them and talk it up a lot to the kids. It helps Molly. It's been almost two weeks and Molly is still sleeping with the picture of Beth, Kurt and Ethan. Every night "my picture my picture" "yes Molly we see your picture" She LOVES Kurt. Her favorite activity when they were here was cornering Kurt and making him read to her. She also enjoyed having Julie chase her all over the place.


I always forget to take pictures when people come to visit. We're always too busy doing other things. So here's a picture of the kids right before everyone left. Don't ask me what Molly's doing...
Everyone on the swings at the "big big park" or antelope park as it's more commonly known.