Fall is my favorite season in Vermont. Unfortunately, it is also the shortest season. I thought I would do a picture post recapping our busy fall. We have had amazingly clear warm weather, but winter is in the air.
I took Joshua to the park by our house to capture some of the fall foliage. He honestly would not sit still for a minute. He is so active, today at church one of the women asked me if he ever settled down as we watched him walk around and around and around the piano, and then run and steal all the other kids snacks. I had to honestly answer no. He is always on the move even when he is asleep.
Playing in the fall leaves, they were gorgeous this year.
Joshua loved our cat Figaro. He is always wanting to hold her even though she is as big as he is. The other day I set her in his lap and he would not let her go...
even when he toppled over with her. He sat there for like 15 minutes laughing and giggling while the cat just purred away.
Caleb's mom came into town and we had so much fun with her. Joshua loved her and was excited to have another playmate. While she was here she taught me how to make and bottle apple sauce. We went apple picking and made 14 quarts of apple sauce, we also froze, juiced, and dried a ton more apples. I was so happy to finally learn how to bottle.
Joshua's new favorite pass time is cooking. We did a lot of cooking with Kathy and he loved standing on a chair and helping. Now anytime I am doing anything in the kitchen he starts pulling starts grunting and painting while he pulls a chair across the kitchen to the counter.
We also went to see the Barre granite quarry. It was really interesting to see. It is a gigantic pit of granite. At first it didn't look that deep but then we saw a guy working in the bottom and he was tiny.
Joshua has to read a pile of books every night before bed, and he only wants Daddy to read them. He loves Caleb, especially in the morning and at night when he doesn't want to go to bed. The other night he was saying night night and giving hugs to Grandma and Caleb and he actually started to say nigh- nigh. Now he says night nigh daden (daddy) pretty clear. He is starting to pick up quite a few little words.
We loved having Caleb's mom here. Joshua just really loved having her here, and it was great to be able to spend some time together.
Our friend Vanessa is an amazing photographer and was wonderful enough to take some family pictures of us. These are just a few of the unedited ones I will post the real ones when we get them. I thought they were great and the fall colors were amazing.
Joshua was squirmy and moving all over the place, as usual, so we tried to give him a break and let him play with this wheel barrel. He would not give it up. She ended up getting a ton of cute pictures of him with it.
On Friday we had a little community Halloween party. Joshua is a lion this year. Before I put him in the costume I used the lion as a puppet and was playing with him. Then I put it on him and showed him himself in the mirror and he got all excited. He left the hood and even the mittens on the entire party. Usually it is impossible to leave hoods or hats on him, but he liked being a lion.
At the party there were all sorts of cute crafts and activities. This one was to make spiders out of Oreos. He didn't really no what to do with it but enjoyed crumbling it to bits. I tried to give him a piece but he only like to pull it all apart.
