heather, marc, wren & z mroz

i think wren and z could have played in the leaves all day!

z still doesn't walk very much but he could if he wanted to!

mama do you want to try these green beans I put in with my dumplings?
they are really good!

We LOVE appleberry farm!  Is it the best farm?  probably not.  Does it have the most kid friendly activities?  No.  Are the apples super tasty?  Well… some of them are super tasty and some are all full of holes from the bugs eating them.  BUT we go there every year and I enjoy the simplicity of it.  Trees, apples, hayride if you wish and some pre-picked pumpkins.  Our favorite is the tire swing and this year they added another one.  So beautiful.  I think we will go here every year as long as we are in Madison.

Pumpkin pictures from Schuster's Farm this weekend.

Last weekend we went to Schuster's farm and had a lot of fun!  There were goats to feed, tractors to climb, pillows to jump on and pumpkins to pick.. (pumpkin pics to follow…

Z took his first steps tonight! He was walking back and forth from me to marc and then to wren. Hopefully we will be able to take a video in the next couple days!

Grandma Lynn and Gpa came to visit and were able to see wren's gymnastics class.  There is also a picture here of z cuddling with Grandma Lynn.. a rare occurrence!

Wren had her first day of homeschool preschool today!  She was so excited and wanted to start before she was done with breakfast.  We sang a good morning song, had calendar time, practiced drawing lines, L's and wren's name.  She also tried to lace the letter L on the leaf and then we practiced patterns with different colored leaves.  We had a lot of fun.  It was definitely easier when Z was sleeping though.. we will see what the future holds!  Later today we plan to go on a walk to the library to find some books on leaves and gather leaves on the ground on the way (I can't believe there are already some on the ground!).

We did have some moments of distraction where she just wanted to put the pencil behind her ear and color instead of drawing lines… so we colored an L with a lion… she thought it was hilarious that the lion was hugging an L (she thought I was being silly?!).

We had a picnic at the park and z decided it was time to start exploring the park equipment.. he's getting to be such a big boy!  He also had a blast in the boucy house at Adie's birthday party.  Wren was eating one of our cucumbers from the garden and made some silly faces.  I think that's all for now…

At lunch z kept signing for more. He had such a big smile while he was doing it!

heather said “shouda woulda coulda” the other day, and wren thought it was hilarious. she kept saying it over and over again. heather explained to her why it sounded cool, because they were rhyming words. now wren is a rhyming machine, she keeps coming up with words that rhyme. some of them are real words and some of them are just made up words, but she gets the idea. heather told wren she could have a cereal bar in the car this morning since we were running late for the 8am service. wren said “bar and car… those are rhyming words.”