Fall

 Nick took off a day last week so we decided to go to the children's museum. Audrey thought it was great fun and flitted from thing to thing exploring all the different exhibits. She's been asking to go back ever since.

Then this week, I decided to carve the pumpkin that Audrey picked out at her school's pumpkin patch. She helped me scoop out the seeds and then I was able to make this snaggle-toothed guy:

 

Audrey named it "Audrey" and checks on him daily to make sure he's still happy out there on our front porch. She is all about pumpkin these days, telling me she LOVES pumpkin pie and wanting to visit the pumpkin patch every day. Today her class took a field trip to the patch and then made some pumpkin sugary concoction in the school kitchen. It was definitely the highlight of her week!

 

For Joan

All of September came and went and I didn't record a thing. In my defense, nothing truly remarkable happened. Audrey has been enjoying school. I've been enjoying my mornings running errands or just running alone. Most days are the same: school, nap (thankfully they have come back for now), play outside when the weather is nice. On Mondays and Fridays we spend time with friends and family or just hang around the house. 

Here are a few fun pics and tidbits from the past month:

Audrey is really into The Little House on the Prairie picture books, and in one, Ma Ingalls makes the girls some pancake men. Audrey would ask me for pancake men every time I read it, but the next morning when I offered to make one, she would always say no. Finally I made them for dinner one night. She was thrilled! 

She LOVES the outdoors. She has tons of "collections" of rocks and leaves and sticks and daily asks to go on "treasure hunts" to find more. 

We went to Grandma's house one night when our air conditioning was broken. She was insistent upon packing her own suitcase and this is what she took to Grandma's:

 
She loves playing with her friend Davis:

We went to the fair this year for the first time with Audrey. She wanted to ride all the roller coasters but with her height she was stuck on the kiddie rides, which she enjoyed too. 

She had her first dentist appointment that she just loved. She charms people everywhere she goes and is such a little people person. 

At my mom's school where she got to hear stories from her own personal librarian. She tried to teach my sister's class too, writing gibberish on the board and then telling everyone, "that's an A, boys."

Two other funny Audrey stories: at church we had a visiting pastor who was very boisterous in his preaching and got very animated. All of a sudden halfway through the sermon, Audrey said (rather loudly) "calm down!! Calm. Down." And motioned with her hands for him to do so. I don't think he heard her but we sure got a kick out of it. 

She writes us notes on paper and they always say, "Dear You, Thank you for my love." So cute! 

Here are a couple other pics I've gotten recently. Reading with BG (bonus grandma):

Owl PJs, the current favorite attire:

So that's the update. You're welcome, Joan, and if you'd set your alarm to go off once a week and remind me to write, maybe I would. Or then again, maybe not. ;)