Fall is Here! 2014

Yes, Fall is Here! And the leaves are beginning to change into beautiful autumn colors; brown, yellow, reds. I love being able to talk with the boys about the seasons and the nice brisk mornings and the many colors of this season!

Here are some of the fun memories we are making this fall together as a family of four:

• We took a quick camping trip to Cimarron Canyon, NM and attempted to fish, waded in the river, took walks, roasted marshmallows, drank hot chocolate, gathered firewood, pitched our tents, and ate yummy food! Eli who is also quite accident bound, got stung by a bee on the ear, and fell out of his stroller....what am I going to do with him? He gives me heart attack nearly every day!
• Maxwell's pumpkin farm opened the last weekend of September and we made sure we were there! Hay rides, bounce houses, corn mazes, tractor rides, pumpkin pickin', corn diggin', and goat feeding. The easy and fun entertainment for a 3.5 year old and almost 2 year old is endless....!
• Both of the boys are just sponges....they catch on to everything, and nothing slides by them!
• We love to sing! Here are some of our favorites right now:
• "you are my sunshine"
• "Joshua fought the battle of Jericho" and they love saying 'and the walls came tumbling down' and really making the word slide down :)
• "eat 'em up" with a toilet paper roll
• "bumpy road"
• Edward has also started composing his own songs about Eli "Eli, Eli, O , O, O" then Eli will repeat! 
• We had a caterpillar named 'toothless' who we watched for about a week eat through squash leaf after squash leaf, then die.
• Sometimes the tags on a shirt, pj's will determine whether or not Edward likes the item, because he rubs tags like crazy usually while sucking his thumb! Eli prefers to suck on his blankie.
• Eli loves his "Pout pout fish" and the book
• The boys like to feed Max in the morning and this will often lead us outside first thing in the morning, which turns into us all running through our huge backyard and being silly first thing in the morning! I love being a mom!
• "1, 1, one" (poop) "he doesn't have a family" Edward-9/26/2014
• Eli playing peek-a-boo through his crib with me in the mornings "I see you"
• "You're pretty" These simple words from Edward brought me to tears...
• I always tell the boys they are "perfect". So one night while we were reading the Bible I told Edward that everyone makes mistakes and that no one is perfect, but then he said "I'm perfect" followed by "you're perfect"! Heart-melting mommy moments! 

God is great! I'm so blessed! Happy Fall!