Cafeteria Carousel Horse

I think I've mentioned it before that Cadence is a little OCD when it comes to the carousel horse in the cafeteria at school.  9 times out of 10, we HAVE to stop by and see the horse before we leave school.  I originally blamed my mom for this, not knowing that it was OK for kids to sit on it.  I was told that one of Cadence's favorite past teachers let her do it one day.  Now it's pretty much a necessity.  Enjoy the montage of carousel horse pictures collected by my mom and me!

 

Apple Picking

So, we were supposed to go to the Circleville Pumpkin Show today...totally bummed about the rain.  We were very depressed about missing pumpkin doughnuts, pumpkin chili, pumpkin pizza, pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin fudge...oh the list goes on.  Since we didn't do that today, I have some time to update the blog.  Right now, Dad and Danny are watching the the Ohio State / Iowa game and Mom and Cadence are watching The Little Mermaid...I'm kind of watching both.  Colin is napping.  Tomorrow we are going to check out a house on 1.5 acres with a fenced in yard and a pool!  There's also a 1.5 acre lot for sale next door.  We shall see!  We are also going to talk to Schumacher homes at noon.  We still haven't completely decided on what we'd like to do!

Halloween is less than 2 weeks away.  Cadence is going to be Sofia the First and Colin is going to be an elephant (of course!).  I'm hoping the weather will cooperate and will be nicer than it is today!  A couple of weeks ago we met Danny's family at Lynd's for some apple picking!  We had a lot going on that day with house stuff, so we didn't get to spend as much time as we would have liked.  It also started down-pouring...at least we got a ton of apples!

Little Miss Diva

It was seriously like a movie where 2 people run to each other in slow motion...they are so cute!

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Happy about her candy

Happy about an apple falling on the floor

Colin ~ 4 1/2 months

Cadence ~ 5 months

We started rice cereal with Colin last week!  He did a pretty good job!  It will be interesting to see how he does with baby food!  He's already getting so big.  He's not even 5 months old yet and almost outgrowing his 6 month old sized clothes.  I think Cadence at this age was still easily fitting in her 3 month old sized clothes!  Colin can also roll-over from his belly to his back...not consistently though.  We're working on it!

Little stinker!

Yup, It's Been A While!

So I knew that I was behind on blog posts, but just realized that it is now Fall and most of the pictures in this post are from early Summer!  I know I always say we've been super busy, but since May, we've really kicked it up a notch.  We went from having a baby, to putting our house up for sale, to selling our house, then on to garage sale, out of town wedding, and moving to Mom & Dad's house!  Whew!  And to top it off, work for both Danny and me has been out of control; there have been a lot of changes for both of us, but hey, at least we have jobs!  I also realized that part of the reason why I don't update the blog as much, is because using this laptop seems so archaic!  We've gotten so used to using the iPad or our phones to do stuff online because they're so convenient.  We've gotten spoiled to the point that using the laptop is no longer convenient!

As always, our kids are super cute (at least I think so, and I know a lot of you will agree with me...ha!).  They keep us busy and entertained at the same time.  Most recently, Cadence has said stuff like, "that doesn't make sense to me!" or "who turned out the lights?" when her shirt got stuck on her head.  She's even started "playing dead" lately.  She picks up a lot of strange things from school!  Speaking of school, Cadence moved up to the 3-4 year old room in August.  The kids in this room are completely potty trained and have lunch in a mini-cafeteria together.  If you've seen the facebook posts from my mom where Cadence is sitting on a carousel horse, it's in the mini-cafeteria.  Each week they learn a new letter of the alphabet, as well as a new number, color, etc.  She has a lot of friends in her class, but I've noticed lately that she's a big fan of the boys...uh oh!

Colin has been doing well too!  He started "school" (as we call it) after we got back from my cousin, Melissa's, wedding in Atlanta.  He was about 10 weeks old when he started.  Thankfully, my mom watched him for us after I went back to work so he didn't have to start at 6 weeks!  We really like his "teachers"; that helps a lot when it comes time to drop them off at school each day.  His personality is starting to develop and it's really easy to get him to smile and laugh.  He's a pretty easy going baby - he can get mad though!  Watch out if he's super hungry or super tired!  He's also learned that his feet are attached to his body and constantly reaches for them.  He's getting better at controlling his head as well.  We've tried to sit him in his Bumbo seat a couple of times, but he's still kind of wobbly.  He has his 4 month doctors appointment on Friday.  I'm curious to see how much he's grown...but don't want him to have to get more shots!  It will be interesting to see if we get the go ahead to start him on rice cereal too!

The move to my parents' house was a quick, but smooth transition.  It was a lot of work and Danny and my dad did most of the moving!  Cadence thought it was cool to have a bigger room...she still calls it Uncle Mike's room.  Since it was empty, we moved everything from her old room into her new room.  We all have our own room, and with three bathrooms upstairs, there's no issue there either!  We're really thankful that my parents are letting us stay with them until we have a new place to live.  We still haven't decided on whether we want to build a new house, or buy an existing house.  We are working with the realtor that sold our house (he's my parents' neighbor), so every day, we get updates on new listings, pricing changes, etc.  We still haven't come across anything that we were dying to check out!

Just like last Fall, I'm not looking forward to the chilly weather, but I am looking forward to other things that the season brings: apple picking, pumpkin carving, Halloween, Thanksgiving...Danny would add football to the list I'm sure. 

 Some sweet brother/sister TV time...and Scarlet being a good girl in the background.

Happy Baby

His tongue is always sticking out!

4th of July

Colin after his 1 month doctors appointment and shots...poor babe was wiped out!  I have similar pictures of Cadence from the same time!

I think Scarlet felt badly for him too...

OK, so Cadence is a silly girl.  This is what she wanted to wear one night after her bath!

I mentioned she's silly, right?  They had superhero week at school.  Here she is modeling her mask that she made.

Right after the 4th of July, we had Colin baptized at St. Michael Church.  We're glad both of our families were able to attend.  It was a nice day, celebrating with everyone.  

Here's a good shot of Colin's godparents, my Dad and Erica.

She's a silly kid...remember?  Look how sweet Gracie looks!

Good shot with Deacon Demidovich, who baptized Cadence as well!

All 5 cousins!

Here's Colin on his first day of school!

2 Month Picture

We were honored when my cousin, Melissa, asked us if Cadence would be the flower girl in her wedding!  I think Cadence did a great job!  I could tell she was a little nervous, but I was amazed at how quickly she warmed up to everyone in my family. She had a blast playing with her distant cousins!

I think I've mentioned it a time or two, she's crazy!

SOLD, baby!

Brother/Sister bonding time...it was short-lived.  Cadence was telling Colin that a snake was on Little Einsteins!

3 Month Picture

Big Sis!

4 Month Picture...getting so big!