Mr. Potato Pumpkin

I don't know if we'll be carving pumpkins this year, but Mr. Potato has morphed into Mr. Pumpkin

Smiley

Kite Fly

It was a beautiful, but windy day...so why not go fly a kite?

A couple of families had built a model rocket and came to the park to shoot it off...Josh wanted to watch, but we made sure he wasn't in the way...not sure if they ever found their rocket...it went so far!

September 27

Often, after I take Caitlyn's outfit photo for the day, Josh wants to get in a picture too!

Big Brother, Little Sister shirts

Family Portrait, by Josh; narrative by Josh too

This is too Cute!

Caitlyn has learned how to kiss! and she'll probably do it on demand, especially if you "kiss" her first!

Newest Driver

I found the floorboard for the car in the garage, so Caitlyn is able to sit and I can push her!

Cuddles

the first cool WINDY day of fall...keeping warm watching Josh's soccer practice.

Feeding the Animals 2012

a lot more patient than last year.

Hello Fall!

The kids in their overalls.  

 We ventured out to All Seasons Apple Orchard in Woodstock, IL for our annual pumpkin picking and apples.  It was windy, so it was cold too.

in the tunnel slide

duck racing

bounce house

pig racing

Pedal Cart

zip line

Corn Maze

Josh really enjoyed playing around on the tractors

Josh and I on the cows

another tractor

The Whole Family

Happy 9th Anniversary (with the kids picture in the background! Clever, huh?)

Thief!

Josh Caitlyn and I had been out at an event for dinner this night...where Caitlyn ate a lot.  We get home about the same time and Jared was eating some leftover pizza.  Caitlyn decided it was hers and proceeded to eat the whole piece.  She's no longer happy with what is on her tray in her high chair, just wants what we are eating!

Josh and Jared

Spiderman!

Spiderman came to Nibbles for dinner.  Josh only had a spiderman t-shirt on, but some kids came dressed up in full costume!

Josh doing the Spiderman Bozo Buckets

Kite Fly

flying a kite... Josh really enjoyed running to get the kite to stay up.

remember last year, or earlier this year?

First Day of School, 3YO

Much more inclined to smile than last year!

Mrs. Gismondi reading the class a story

Soccer

and so begins the fall classes.  Friday, Josh had a crafty creations class, where he "baked" slice and bake cookies and glued construction paper to make a "pizza".  Today he had soccer.  Tomorrow he starts pre-school!

we had friends visiting in town from Indiana.  Interestingly, we saw them about the same time last year, and isn't it amazing how much kids grow in a year!?