The Park: We have been to the park so many times in the last few weeks! The weather has been divine and we have a perfect little park very close to our house. One week we went to a park 6 times in 5 days! We've met a bunch of little friends there, or gone on our own, and once we took Nora with us!
Discovery Museum: Since the crowds die back down when everyone else goes back to school, we have been usuals back at the museum. I love playing here with the boys so much. It's amazing to watch their imaginations take over and see them "work" there.
BFSC Reunion: While Heidi was here visiting our BFSC Jana came down from Nampa to spend time with her. So we made it a little BFSC reunion and had a blast laughing, talking, listening to music and just being together. It doesn't happen enough now.
Pumpkin: Worth noting, we've made a serious amount of pumpkin recipes around here this fall. What can I say, we love this season and we are embracing it! So far we've made pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin pie cinnamon rolls, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin baked oatmeal, pumpkin cookies and then we bought pumpkin bagels and cream cheese from Einsteins. Luckily for Ben and me, the boys seem to love pumpkin season just as much as we do.
Napping- Huds is still the king of naps. But now he tries to stay up late at night too, so we've been limiting him to a 2-3 hour nap. The problem is that waking him up can be a big mistake- like screaming, crying, hitting, hair-pulling battle for over an hour. It's like waking a sleeping dragon. Ben figured out a much better approach. When we feel like he should wake up we open his door, turn off his noise machine, and just tell him it's time to wake up. Then we leave and let him wake up slowly on his own. It produces a much happier Hudson (although it takes longer). I walked in a few days ago after doing this routine to find this- which is just obviously so comfortable.
Discovery Museum: Since the crowds die back down when everyone else goes back to school, we have been usuals back at the museum. I love playing here with the boys so much. It's amazing to watch their imaginations take over and see them "work" there.
Hudson's Education: While Chase goes to preschool, Hudson and I have our own little school. Hudson mostly knows his shapes and colors, but I have not made much progress in the past on his alphabet. So I just plan a few simple little activities around each letter and we are slowly making our way through the alphabet. These pictures are "E is for Elephant" and "D is for Donut". (He also really loved the day we learned about C- we made cookies). He's making progress!
BFSC Reunion: While Heidi was here visiting our BFSC Jana came down from Nampa to spend time with her. So we made it a little BFSC reunion and had a blast laughing, talking, listening to music and just being together. It doesn't happen enough now.
Pumpkin: Worth noting, we've made a serious amount of pumpkin recipes around here this fall. What can I say, we love this season and we are embracing it! So far we've made pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin pie cinnamon rolls, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin baked oatmeal, pumpkin cookies and then we bought pumpkin bagels and cream cheese from Einsteins. Luckily for Ben and me, the boys seem to love pumpkin season just as much as we do.
Napping- Huds is still the king of naps. But now he tries to stay up late at night too, so we've been limiting him to a 2-3 hour nap. The problem is that waking him up can be a big mistake- like screaming, crying, hitting, hair-pulling battle for over an hour. It's like waking a sleeping dragon. Ben figured out a much better approach. When we feel like he should wake up we open his door, turn off his noise machine, and just tell him it's time to wake up. Then we leave and let him wake up slowly on his own. It produces a much happier Hudson (although it takes longer). I walked in a few days ago after doing this routine to find this- which is just obviously so comfortable.
Oh man, next time we'll make an effort to get more pictures! Or I'll polish my forward-facing camera lens on the phone so we're not quite so blurry ;). Love you Court! Loved seeing you!!!!
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