Oprah

I almost feel like Oprah is a member of our family by the way that I've been blogging about her lately.


My sister-in-law, Marissa, hooked me up with a ticket to go to Oprah with her and some friends from Milwaukee. Anyone who has ever tried to get Oprah tickets knows how difficult it can be so I felt pretty special when I got a message saying there was a ticket with my name on it. We went earlier this month and it was SO MUCH FUN. I didn't think that I was the type of person to get camera/celebrity crazy, but I was on an Oprah high for days after leaving the studio. The coolest part was that we were given seats on the VERY front row. When we initially walked into the studio, the usher directed us to the back of the studio in pretty undesirable seats. BUT, just as we were turning to go to our seats, another woman with a headset on asked us if we would be willing to sit at the front of the studio. The show was "The Biggest Loser" and we got to sit right next to one of the contestants from the previous season. The show is airing on this Thursday (Oct. 30th) so tune in if you want to see me in all my Oprah glory. I'm wearing a bright green sweater.

p.s. Marissa, please forgive me for stealing this Oprah picture off of your blog...I'm am not computer savvy enough to figure out how to get one myself. :)

Take a pitchure?!

Lately Maisy's favorite new phrase has been, "Take a picture?!", followed by, "Can I see?". She has also learned to say this when she thinks she is doing something cute, which is good for me because I'm not the best about remembering to take pictures. As a result, we have a lot of Maisy shots that beg to blogged about.






I think this one is hilarious because it catches Maisy's 'fake smile' that she tries to do when we tell her to smile.

Maisy's favorite question has recently evolved to, "take a breao?", which means 'take a video'. So we now do about 2 video's per day, every one of which starts with Maisy saying, "Can I see?". Anybody for some home videos?

September is now over but I still have some pictures to post

We did do other things in September, aside from Fantasy Baseball...despite what our last two posts may seem to imply.

Maisy started soccer classes. This is her official uniform. She is a "Lil Kicker" and her team name is "The Bunnies". It is an understatement when I say that Maisy loves her soccer classes. We too think they are pretty entertaining, although Shaun thinks they need to work on more hard-core soccer skills (apparantly chasing after bubbles and running under a parachute does not qualify as soccer skills in his book). They do stack up soccer cones and kick them over and play red-light, green-light which I think is a start in the right direction.



We also went downtown and watched the taping of Oprah as she hosted over 150 of the Olympic Athletes on her show. She taped it at Millennium Park which meant that we could sit on the lawn and watch (without having actual tickets to the show). We didn't get to hi-five any of the athletes, but it we felt pretty special being in the same vicinity as Michael Phelps, Nastia Lukin, Kobe Bryant, etc., etc.





Maisy has also taken up Longboarding. She thinks it's a much more swank way to get around than a stroller and she likes that she can pick up her pals on it too.