First Half of October (Oct. 1 - 16)

Although a tad outdated, here are some snapshots and moments from the first half of October leading up to Meghan's first birthday.

10.2 - Enjoying her oatmeal

Being a total punk beginning her climbing spree that is showing no signs of abating some four months later.

10.4 - A very special day, I went to Urgent Care because I finally could stand the muffled hearing in my left ear no longer. Not only did they pull out kidney bean-sized balls of wax out of both ears but in the left one was also a sea shell. 

10.6 - Pulled the exersaucer down from the attic to finally sell it and wouldn't you know Jack played in it one last time.

10.7 - A little super fort on a rainy Sunday always makes for a good time.

Snack time

Shakin' things up

Fleeing the scene

Attention back to the apple

Trying to watch the Patriots game and look who's foiling us. What a stinker.

10.8 - Breakfast time

Always trying to get into her big brothers chair (and that is something that is also still true 4 months later).

 10.9 - Watching home videos with her big brother and sister

Catching up on the Sunday paper.

Moved on from her big brother's seat to her big sister's.

Swinging at the park!

10.10 - Jack at school

10.11- Sisters!

Such a big girl sitting in the chair

10.12 - Lil' pumpkin at the Arts Together Fall Picnic

10.14 - Up on Sydney's couch

10.15 - Chillin' with my kitchen utensils in the middle of the super clean floor

Loving her spagetti dinner

 10.16 - Night before her big birthday getting squeaky clean

Posing as a fireman after fire safety day at school

Add these two images together and you've got three smiling kids!

Fall Festival & Weekend (Sept. 28 - 30)

Once again my dreams of being caught by a certain point (in this case Christmas) are not to be, but at least I will be ready to take on October before Valentine's day! Just to put the pressure on, I'm making  my new goal of being caught up before the April birthday celebrations commence public. Here goes nothing...

The Fall Festival of which you are about to read remains one of the most memorable events of the Fall. Even still some 4 months later, when we pass the school Jack says, "There's the Fall Festival."

Before the official start to the weekend, Friday afternoon Meghan was catching some couch time with her big brother. She was so excited to be up there.

Our last weekend in September was kicked off at the elementary school's annual Fall Festival. It was an outdoor event for which the rain thankfully held off. The kids got a chance to go on some bouncy equipment, win prizes by playing games in the gym, and run around on the playground. It went a little past Meghan's bedtime, but she was a champ and after only some minor fussing fell asleep in the Ergo while I snacked on a Locopop.

Jack is having some fun at the flagpole before the Fall Festival.

In line for the super slide

Here they go!

In line for the pirate ship, it made for such a sweet picture.

Saturday morning the rain set in, so the kids did a lot of artwork. Clara incorporated the "witch hat stamp" she'd won at the Fall Festival into many of her drawings and also some body art.

Meanwhile Meghan chose to hop on Pop.

We headed downtown for lunch at Beaseley's, but when faced with a 20+ min wait, we opted to dine next door at Chuck's instead. The kids were very excited for milkshakes and fries.

Afterwards we went over to Brec's office to take advantage of the wide open space to ride around on the scooters and run around for a bit.

Sunday morning we enjoyed the sunshine on our walk and trip to the park. Meghan's first ride on the piggie.

Clara helps her out.

On to the slide

Everyone swings.

Snow Day!

Last year may have been an all time high post count, but so far this year is my worst start yet. I hope turn things around starting right here and now on this very festive Groundhog day! with a recount of last Friday's snow day. 

Of course the big news around here last week was that we were supposed to get snow on Friday the 25th of January. Heading into Friday morning schools were already set to close 3 hours early, but mid-morning they actually moved up the release time by an hour because the storm was moving faster than originally predicted. Sure enough when we headed to the elementary school to get Clara at 11, flakes were already starting to fall. Unfortunately that was about all the snow we got. Despite the fact that temperatures on the ground were for once cooperative, the upper atmosphere wasn't and we mostly got a mixture of sleet and freezing rain for the rest of the afternoon. The kids went out in it initially but got cold quickly. On Saturday morning before things warmed up, we did get a chance to play out  in our pseudo-winter wonderland.

Meghan's first ice/snow experience.

Enjoying some delicious icicles.

Look at that ice piled high on the slide!

Makeshift snow angel.