September Stuff

September was just lovely! Soccer started up again! Chase is on the same team as Luca this year, which has been really fun for him! He's doing really well and loving it. He scored three goals in his first game! Hudson, on the other hand, makes us laugh super hard the whole time (or we are kind of embarrassed). He spends most of his time on the field shooting pretend bad guys, crying that no one is letting him kick the ball, playing an impromptu game of tag with someone on the opposite team, or telling us "Soccer is boring!" Soccer may not be his thing. After the games are over he swears he loves playing soccer. We'll have to see how it goes, but really we can only go up from here!

Chase's games are all at 8:00 am. Let me tell you, getting us all up, dressed, fed, and out the door by 7:45 is a feat! A year ago that wouldn't have been too hard for our family, but this baby Davis has made that a lot trickier! We'll give him a pass though, because he's been the sweetest little spectator at his brother's games!

 Ben started a new job at Paychex and had to go to New York for a week for training. I always take a lot of pictures while he's gone, because he likes seeing pics of the kids and what we are up to. We spent a few lovely evenings outdoors, in our backyard, just breathing in the beautiful autumn air! I love our backyard, I don't know why we don't spend more time out there!

 We get a flag in our yard on patriotic holidays, so we had one for 9/11. I've told the boys all about that day, they've seen pictures and they get it. And they get really excited when we have a flag in our yard.

 Oh baby Davis, this kid makes our life so much sweeter, and so much more exhausting. He's such a terrible sleeper! We've been working on sleep training him almost all month long. He's stubborn. He's randomly slept through the night twice, and we are hoping this will become a more common occurrence. He's gotten to the point where even when I get up to nurse him, he still doesn't go back down (or does go back to sleep, but only for 20 minutes) so we've mostly been making him cry it out. I hate it. I hate listening to him cry (everyone else sleeps through it). But getting up 6 times a night was driving me crazy also. I hope more restful days are in our future.