Pumpkin

Fall is in the air. I love fall! When the leaves start to change colors and it gets a little cooler. I get in this mood to bake. Pumpkin is one of my favorite ingredients to use for this time of year! This year I attempted to make pumpkin fudge. It took three attempts and assistance, but we finally made a decent batch of pumpkin fudge. It tasted pretty good. It was a little harder than I like my fudge and really, really rich, but it was pretty good.

Oops!

Lucas has been into putting things over his head. The other day he was playing with sand toys (that are not ours and need to be returned), and was really enjoying himself. Then we started to her whining, like he was frustrated. We turned around and there was Lucas with a bucket around his neck and not to thrilled about it either. Though he was very upset, I had to take a picture. It was one of those moments when I can't help but think, "really?" "Where did you even come up with that?"

Apple Orchard!

Last week our playgroup took a tour of an apple orchard. We took wagon ride through the apple orchard and had a quick tour of where they store, wash and clean the apples. Lucas was intrigued with the machine that washed and cleaned the apples! Throughout the tour Lucas tried to grab and eat the apples. Luckily at the end of the tour they gave us some apple cider and a bag to fill up with apples. Lucas really enjoyed his apple!!! He kept trying to go back for more!

Banana

When Lucas sees something he wants he goes for it. Like the other day when I forgot to push the chair in and before I knew it, Lucas had climbed the chair onto the kitchen table, reached into a bowl took a pair of bananas out proceed to pull one off. He put the other one back in the bowl, looked at me and said, "want this". At least I didn't have to guess what he wanted.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Craig! As of last Wednesday Craig is one year older! Unfortunately he wasn't able to enjoy it, because everything happened to land on that day. However, we were able to celebrate between his work meetings and mutual. We had balloons and no bake cookies, Craig's favorite. So we didn't have to take away anymore of his man cards, we gave him money to buy a drill!

Beach!

This past weekend we had the wonderful opportunity to go to Delaware with some friends. We stayed for three nights in a house in Ocean View, Delaware. There were four families, a total of eight adults and eight kids, so at times it was a little noisy, but tons of fun! It was so nice to get away and take a break from our everyday routine. We went to the beach and the weather was wonderful. It was late in the season so there were not a lot of people, which was a nice perk. We also saw dolphins right off the shore.

Lucas loved playing in the sand, and after several minutes he was willing to play in the waves. He started to chase them, which he really seemed to enjoy, though we had to hold onto him or the current would have take him out into the ocean. One of our friends had a friend that owns a beach house right off the bay, so we went and watched the sunset off of their deck.

We were not far from Ocean City Maryland so we took a stroll along the boardwalk and was able to see where the ocean met the bay. On the way home was got stuck in traffic, lots of traffic, as bikers headed home from motorcycle week 2010 in Ocean City, but then we crossed the Chesapeake Bay which was really cool. The bridge was long and high above the ocean, which was a little intimidating. We could see boats coming in from the ocean. By then end of the journey Lucas was exhausted! It was a good time!

New skills

Towards the beginning of September Lucas has started to use a spoon at breakfast time. He gets his own spoon to feed himself his oatmeal. I still have to supervise and assist, but Lucas likes to do it himself, and at times won't open his mouth when I am trying to giving him a bit.

I got him a popper toy, I didn't think he would grasp the concept so quickly, but right off the bat he started pushing that toy around and loves it. He also likes pushing a baby doll stroller around, yes, Craig let him have a stroller, we were lucky enough to find a green one, so at least it is manly looking.

We have also been listening to the musical talent of farmer Tad, and at random times different animal sounds. We got Lucas this Leap Frog farm animal thing that you put on your fridge. Lucas loves to push the button where farmer Tad plays the banjo and Lucas rocks out.

Lucas has also been paying more attention to the pictures in books, at times I will find him staring at the pictures in a book that he has found, he loves books. He also continues to jabber constantly, today I bought him one of those toy microphones that magnify your voice. He loves it, every time we went to someones house he would find that toy and walk around talking into nonstop. So now he has one of his own.

The other day Lucas got into the diaper bag and found the graham crackers. He brought them over to me and said, "want this", I said you want some graham crackers and he said, "this". It was sure cute.