Apple Picking

In the time honored New England tradition, we set off apple picking this year on Columbus Day. Daddy was away for the day so Nana joined us on our adventure. We took a lovely drive up to Honey Pot Orchards in Stowe, Ma. It was a really nice day, we couldn't have asked for nicer weather. As an added bonus, our good friend and godfather to James, Josh was there on a work outing. It was nice to be able to share our trip with him and Erika too!

David, not too sure about this whole apple picking thing...

He soon got the hang of it and was excited to climb the ladder!

James and Josh

Do you know how hard it is to try and get 3 kids to at least look in the same direction?? Nevermind the smiling part!

Brothers

It is really nice to look back at some of David's old pictures and see how much James looks like him. James is starting to wear more and more of David's old clothes so when I see pictures of them both in the same outfit is very very funny to me. Here is one of the boys with lucky the leprechaun. We had dressed David in the for St. Patricks Day when he was almost 7 months old. We had James in it the other day and he is almost 8 months. They are right around the same age in these pictures. I used to think they looked exactly alike and now that I see these next to each other, they are starting to look different from each other.

Happy Fall!

We have finally seemed to have settled into our fall schedule. David started back to "school" at the beginning of September and is so happy!!! He loves his car rides to and from with Nana and most importantly he loves being back with his buddies. He tells me often that he goes to school with his best buddy Will. Going to Curry has been so wonderful for David and we are so happy that he has this opportunity. I am a little embarrassed that David has become a little bit of a clown at school. One day his report said that he had everyone laughing at snack time. Every time David took a bite of something he would say "that's delicious!!" It made all his friends laugh so he continued to do it for the rest of snack! He has also taught all his friends "Blah!!" He learned this off one of the Baby Einstein videos we have. They have a puppet that sticks his tongue out and says "Blah!" David loves it and thinks it is hysterical, so he has passed this on to his friends at school and this is how they greet each other!!! It's only just beginning.....

The "Blah!" face

The babes are also doing great! Cate has finally caught up to James in the rolling department and they are all over the place.... It's almost time for the gates to go up!! They have been trying lots of new fruits and vegetables and loving them all. I have been fortunate enough to find the time to make all their food, which has so far been a great experience! They are starting to display more and more of their personalities, this is such a fun stage! James is all smiles, all the time! Cate is coming around too.... she started off a little fussy, but now she is really warming up and smiling all the time too. They both think big brother is the funniest person in the world! David will jump around and sing and they both just belly laugh at him, it is such a joy to watch!!

They both love playing in the exersaucer! Mommy loves it too, they can't get into too much trouble this way!