Welcome Warm Weather

We have been blessed with some warm weather these past few days.  It's been in the 60s or 70s and mostly sunny.  We visited another farm yesterday and Michael was able to climb over pumpkins.  We also made ghosts for our dogwood tree and were able to hang those.  Today we visited a playground and played outside in the afternoon. 

Here's another Michaelism:  "Here do you go", translation: "Here you go."

Ryan has now starting fake laughing.  He'll hear someone else laugh and go "HA, HA, HA".  Still not crawling. 

I am very proud of myself as I made a chicken/butternut squash puree for Ryan.  Of course, I think with all the money I spent on the ingredients it may have been cheaper to buy the jars.  Oh well. 

Fall Happenings

This weekend Grandma, Grandpa, and  Holly came to visit.  On Saturday we all went to the fall flower show at Phipps Conservatory.  We saw lots of mums and the trains were out.  There was also a market display for the kids.  On Sunday we went to Simmons Farm and enjoyed the hayride, slide, apple cider, and corn maze.  It did take us 35 minutes to find all the hole punches (five of them) in the corn maze.  And the prize was a carmel apple sucker, which Michael is still working on finishing. 

Ryan Exercising

Here is a video of Ryan playing with a ball and swimming (although not in water). 

Ryan Exercising

Caveman Ryan

Ryan has turned into a caveman when he wants something - he starts yelling.  Today we were at a picnic at a park and he saw a ball in the distance (yes, he likes balls now and he does try to roll them to us) and he started yelling.  The yelling got louder as we got closer and didn't stop until he was playing with the ball.  This video here shows you how upset he gets since he wants to play with Michael's cars. 

Caveman Video

Apples

We went to the Apple Orchard today (they don't do picking there), but they had a fall fest and it was quite busy there.  But we had to go today to get the last of the honey crisp apples.  And an apple pie, and apple cider, and apple cider donuts, and the list goes on.  The weather has been great all weekend, so we enjoyed a nice sunny day. 

Encountering some storage issues with my online album, so won't be posting any new pictures/videos until I come up with a solution. 

Michaelisms

"Bet cha" as in "Bet cha we got there early to get our apples." Translation: "Good thing we got there early to get our apples."

"So I do" as in Mommy says: "I liked the apple cider donuts." Michael says: "So I do."  Translation: "Me too."

"Sure is" as in "Sure is we're having a good time."  Translation: "We sure are having a good time."

"What letter starts with _____ (ball, table, moon, etc.)?" Translation: "What letter does _____ (ball, table, moon, etc.) start with?"