September Happenings

I am rather behind on posting, so September is just going to have to be conbined into one post. "The Incident" however, will be it's own post on another day. If you don't know what I'm speaking of, be ready. It's a doozy.

Jonah started preschool! Here are the obligatory posed pictures. I just love his sweet closed-mouth smiles.

To Jonah's left, is Faith. Jonah talks often of his friend Faith and how much fun he has with her, and how he wants her to come over to play someday, and how she is really fun and beautiful. We need to learn more about this Faith.

We went apple picking again this year and Reed, Dana and the kids came along too. And also their neighbor friend, Kaitlyn, on the far left.

I'm a mom of three! So crazy.

These guys are buddies. They also love to wrestle and beat up on each other to the point of tears. Then they do this immediately afterwards. Oh, boys....

Look at that hair in Abby's face. Someone ought to do something about that....

Labor Day was an exciting day for us this year. The night before, we decided on a whim to get a hotel room in town on priceline and it ended up being a blast. We swam, had a picnic dinner and breakfast in the hotel, and Jonah and Abby shared a bed for the first time. They have been asking when they can do it again. :) The next morning we woke up and headed downtown to the Labor Day parade. We had never gone before and it was a lot of fun! It was also a beautiful day, which was great.

Getting a better view. Tall daddys come in handy for this.

All the floats threw candy and the kids would run and gather as much as they could. Jonah and Abby got quite the loot.

I don't know why Garfield and Odie made the parade. Does anyone really know who they are anymore? Certainly not my kids. I'm guessing these were the floats available in the parade bargain bin. :)

Jonah was very excited to see Iron Man, even though he has no clue who he is. Same with R2D2.

By the time we got home from our Labor Day adventures, Abby was ready to nap on the floor.

Another thing we did this year was go to the Hot Air Balloon festival. Once again, it did not disappoint!

This year they had a balloon on its side that the kids could play in. It was like a non-bouncy bounce house and the kids had a blast.

Bonus points for counting how many balloons there were.

Abby INSISTS on doing everything by herself... when she's with mommy and daddy. She loves, however, to let Emma do everything for her. And Emma loves to do it.

Can you see Levi? He's spent most of our outings hanging out in the baby carrier. Thankfully he likes it!

All night Brian was saying, "Should I get a funnel cake? No, I don't need one." After the third time of saying that, I suddenly saw him in line. :)

So beautiful! This is again proving to be one of our favorite family nights of the year.

Our no-napping Jonah is wiped out by the end of our nights lately. Finally a child that will sleep in the car!

And I haven't put nearly enough pictures up of Levi! I finally captured one of his adorable smiles on camera. They melt me!

He loves playing under his play mat these days. He's made a buddy in the octopus. :)

This is from today. What a strong boy!

What are you lookin' at?