Miriam's Latest

Miriam is about a month away from turning two. It is so hard to believe. She is such an adorable little girl. She is almost 36 inches (3 feet) tall. She weighs 26 pounds. She is definitely all girl. Whenever she sees bugs the first thing she says is gross. Miriam cannot stand getting dirty and has to have a napkin at every meal. It has been fun to see the contrast between her and Nathan (who is all boy). Here is a video of her making biscuits with Grandma Bishop. She liked to stir, but when it came to touching the dough...

Miriam is going through a weird phase with food. Her taste changes from day to day. I try not to be too worried about it as long as she is eating things like hummus. Here she is chowing down straight from the container.


We have really enjoyed some wonderful fall weather. We have been able to go to the park quite a bit. We also can walk to the library. Miriam really loves to watch movies and being close to a library is great. As you know we used to get Signing Time videos, however lately she has changed over to liking different shows. Her two favorite are Dora the Explorer and Go Diego, Go! I am sad to see signing time lose out to Go Diego, Go! but she is still very interested in learning new signs. We continue to find books about sign language. Here are a few pictures of Miriam enjoying the nice weather.



These last few pictures are just because Miriam looked so cute today and I couldn't help taking a bunch of pictures. She is getting the hang of smiling at the camera. It might have had something to do with the candy I bribed her with though.

November is here and going fast

Has it really been 2 weeks since I last posted? I find it hard to believe that November is already halfway gone. I guess we have been keeping busy. It has been a month since I have really updated about what is going on with us. Here is what we have been up to.

We found a place to live! We get to move in on December 1st. It is a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom condo. It is a little further away than we hoped to be at first, but we decided that space was more important for us. We are excited to get settled into our own place and I am sure Michael's parents are ready for a break from us. We will post pictures when we are settled.

Michael is still enjoying work. He has been traveling a couple of weeks each month to different clients. He leaves on a Sunday night and luckily they let them come home on Fridays (even if it is a two week job). I am grateful we don't have to spend weekends without him. I try to look at the positive side of things and focus on the fact that I get to have the car the weeks he is gone.

Miriam is an absolute joy. She has grown up so much in the past couple of months. I will post more about her later. She has enjoyed having her cousin Nathan here to visit these past few weeks. However, she has been so sick for a lot of the time (see this post). She has had two colds and an ear infection this past month. She is just getting over that last of her sickness. She was so sad the week she had to miss nursery because she was sick. I sure hope we have seen the last of it for a while.

We are excited for the upcoming holiday season. We look forward to focusing on all we are grateful for and celebrating our Savior.

Trick-or-Treating

Okay, I promise this is my last post about Halloween. I just wanted to end with a couple of pictures of us getting ready to go trick-or-treating. We only hit about twenty houses, but I think it was plenty for two little kids. We have enough candy to last a while. I really enjoyed celebrating Halloween this year with Michael and Miriam.

Halloween Party

Saturday night we went to the Ward Fall Party. They had a chili cook-off with cornbread. They had some games for the kids. Miriam went fishing. They even had a costume parade and Miriam and Nathan held hands the whole time. At the end there was a trunk-or-treat in the parking lot.


Miriam loves rainbows. She has known all her colors for a while. Therefore I had to come up with some way she could be a rainbow for Halloween. Remind anyone of Rainbow Brite?

We had such a fun time at the party. It was so fun to see Miriam understand trunk-or-treat this year. She figured out very quickly how to get people to put candy in her pumpkin.

Pumpkin Carving

Our story of one tiny pumpkin:

We (and by we I mean Michael) carved Miriam's pumpkin today.

Miriam ate crackers and I took pictures.

Miriam inspected the work.

She loves her little pumpkin.

Halloween outfit

I really like Halloween. I think it can be such a cute holiday. So, I decided that Miriam needed a special outfit (besides her costume). She actually also wore this shirt last year and the tights were only 25 cents, so it didn't cost much. I think she looks darling.

Pumpkin Pickin

When we went to the pumpkin patch last year I said that I wanted to make it a tradition. I am so glad because we had fun doing it again this year (does two years make it a tradition?). This year we went to Wegmeyer Farms. We wanted to find somewhere that would let you go out in the field and cut the pumpkin off the vine. Fall seems like such a great time for family fun. I got a lot of cute shots while we were there, so here are a bunch of pictures.

pumpkins already picked by the barn

Michael and Miriam heading to the patch with a wagon

Miriam found the best pumpkin

(the first time she has ever posed for a picture)

Michael and Miriam cutting the pumpkin off the vine

Miriam with a really big pumpkin by the barn

Miriam waiting for Michael to buy our pumpkins

(her first fake smile for the camera)

Miriam with a really funny pumpkin

Bishop family at the pumpkin patch