Fall? Yes, it's time to catch up. Part I

We have been putting this post off for a couple weeks now. Since I am eating lunch at my desk today, I figured there is no time like the present!

Our second fall with the girls, Bob, and our house was filled with more exciting adventures than the first. If you remember from last year, the girls were pretty skeptical of leaves. They sat in them, but didn't like it: 

However they couldn't get enough of the leaves this year!

I wasn't able to get a great picture of Emily, but they both had a fun time rearranging our leaf piles. Speaking of leaf piles...this was one of 6 piles that I ended up bagging on one fine Saturday afternoon. I believe the final bag total was 29. Thankfully we had a dry fall season so our neighbor's black walnut tree didn't grow many walnuts. 

Zeus admiring my handy work...

Our little Linus...

The slide that Grandpa Frank and Grandma Jane got the girls for their birthday also became a big hit. Unfortunately due to the placement of said slide, the girls would try to run down it every time they walk past it. Normally this isn't a problem, except when we are trying to leave the house on-time...which we rarely accomplish.

October was also filled with visitors! We started off the month with a visit from Grandma Jane and Grandpa Marty. The girls are doing an amazing job with remembering faces and voices so the warm-up periods are significantly reduced. While it was a short weekend, I think everyone had a great time spending time with each other.

The following weekend, Grandma Sharon arrived and brought some homemade crafts! The girls loved playing with the pumpkins...until they started to eat the pieces. We will have to break these out again next year.

Everything is now a chair...

We also celebrated Sharon's birthday while she was here! Jennifer had the honors of making the cake while Emily helped Grandma blow out the candles. It is a little hard, if not impossible to tell from the picture below, but Emily wasn't very excited about the candles this time.

Some might be wondering...I thought you said at the beginning that you wrote this at lunch however the post time is 8pm...what gives? Yes....well I started, however we had the great pleasure of receiving the dreaded "your kid has a fever and can no longer stay here" phone call. Lucy is doing better now, but will probably be out of daycare the rest of the week since Sharon is back in town for Christmas. It's the lost season...illness season.