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The weather has been so nice and the leaves are starting to change colors. I had been wanting to get out for a walk and get some photos of the leaves, but instead ended up taking pictures of the girls. I was really happy with out these impromptu photos of the girls came out!
  
I did take a few of the fall colors, too. Many of our neighbors have mums planted in their flower beds and I liked how these two looked together.
Our mums with one of the leaves Megan collected.
 From a Google Talk Conversation with Scott today: 11:52 AM Scott: guess what molly did.
11:53 AM me: oh no.
what?
Scott: she went upstairs all by herself.
and got on the toilet all by herself.
and tinkled all by herself.
me: yay!
can you hear me cheering from here?
Scott: yes.
me: that’s awesome.
Baby steps, baby steps. I have to keep repeating it to myself. We aren’t pushing this potty thing, because we don’t want to have to take her there on a schedule and we are “training” her, not the other way around. Maybe this is a sign she’s going to figure it out on her own? Wishful thinking, no doubt…
Every year on the weekend of my birthday, for the past 4 years, we have gone apple picking. Since moving here, Paulus Orchards has been our orchard of choice. Anyway, with the rainy weekend forecast, I was really bummed that we weren’t going to be able to go. When the scattered showers forecast for today seemed to be pretty scattered, I convinced Scott to go anyway. We got everyone ready and headed out with high hopes. It seemed nice enough, till we were almost there. Then it started to drizzle. We bought our bag to put our apples in and I grabbed the umbrella out of the car just in case. We grabbed Molly’s windbreaker that happened to be in the car, too, just in case she got cold. Unfortunately, we didn’t have one for Megan. She said she’d be ok, so off we went. We headed first for the Empire apples…think pie 🙂
By the time we were done getting those, it was raining pretty hard, and we were all getting pretty wet (and we were only half done!) On the way to the golden & red delicious, we had to pass the car. Scott made Megan a poncho out of a shopping bag that she wore grudgingly. You should have seen the daggers when he suggested it to her. I told her she should be happy to have such a resourceful daddy and that she would never again have us telling her to put her head in a bag, so she should take advantage of the opportunity. She didn’t see the humor. Scott with the half-full apple bag, after the poncho struggle.
See, I got wet picking apples too, I didn’t just make the Scott & the kids get soaked. And got a new haircut last week, too, although this isn’t the best view!
Megan’s poncho. She got over it and it helped keep her dry. Oh, she got a new haircut last week too.
Molly’s not impressed. Once her apple was gone, she was over it.
Megan was happy to get back into the car…look at that wet hair!
I made Scott stop on the way out so I could take a picture of the pumpkin patch, full of pumpkins. Sometime next month, we’ll head up on a weekend that it’s NOT raining and pick out a few pumpkins. Then the girls can play on all the cool new playground equipment that they’ve added, too.
I finished up a dress for Molly yesterday during their naps – long, due to the rainy day fun 🙂 She was pleased to model it for me when she woke up. I’ll make a bright pink pair of leggings to wear underneath for when it’s cooler. She really liked it.
And a closeup because she’s such a cutie.
The band-aid on her cheek is covering a bug bite. She keeps picking at it and making it bleed so we’ve had to keep it covered. It’s almost gone now 🙂 It rained a good part of the day yesterday and the kids were full of pent-up energy (donuts for breakfast anyone?) so I bundled them into play clothes, raincoats and boots, and took them outside for some puddle jumping. They had an absolute blast. Before they were too wet:
And just getting started. You can just tell that they’re thinking “I can’t believe she’s letting us do this!”
Megan working on her technique – she made some really big splashes.
And Molly tried, too.
When we were ready to come in, I dumped over an inch of water out of each of Megan’s boots and almost an inch our of Molly’s too. Their hair was dripping and their pants & feet were soaked. After changing into dry clothes, they warmed up with hot cocoa. |
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