Wacky weather and other randomness

This past Monday it was in the 70s and it was sunny. On Tuesday it was so nice we went for a walk at a park. On Wednesday we went to the park again because we couldn't believe the warm weather! Then it got colder, and colder, and is continuing to drop... Today we spent a good part of the day cleaning out the gutter and raking the leaves. The temperature... oh about 42! We were in coats, hats, gloves, and took several hot chocolate breaks. Oh how I love Indiana weather!!!!

So here are some pictures from our time at the park on Tuesday. The weather was so nice we decided to go to Purdue and have lunch with Jesse during his break.
The shirt says it all...

We ate, walked around, and just enjoyed the great weather!

Three days later we're dressed in warmer clothes and drinking hot chocolate! Well I was drinking hot chocolate and Rosalee was drinking soy milk. By the way, the GIANT elephant in the background was her birthday present from us.

Today we raked leaves at a friend's house and then at our house. Here's Rosalee dressed (minus a coat that we put on before leaving) for the weather. She has mittens, a turtleneck, a fleece vest, jeans, a hat, socks, and sneakers on just so she can be outside for a few minutes!
Rosalee's new found independence

Rosalee received a few gifts in the mail this week and enjoyed opening all of them. Below are two pictures of her opening her gift from Angie and Brett who live in Australia.

Rosalee also LOVES reading, as you've seen from the hundreds of posts dealing with books. She loves being read to, reading by herself, reading to Trouble, us reading to her and Trouble, it doesn't matter as long as she has a book near by. She'd MUCH rather be with books than toys. We have tubs full of toys and she goes right past them every day and heads straight for the books. Jesse put her in the rocking chair with a blanket and a book to see what she'd do. We expected her to look at the book, get bored, and then try to climb off the chair. No. She sat there for about 3 minutes looking at her book over, and over, and over again. She went through it so many times that she taught herself how to push, pull, and flip the interactive parts of the book.

Trouble made sure we didn't interfere with her reading...

What the!?
Out of nowhere all of these crows started flying around the house making a lot of noise. The craziness went on for more than 30 minutes and then just as quickly as they came, they left. It was the weirdest thing.