heather, marc, wren & z mroz

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…

Wren had her first gymnastics class today. Here is the only pic I got and it's blurry because it was through the observation window.  They were all popcorn kernels on the trampoline and the teacher (Miss Lauren) would gently bounce and they all would laugh.  They also had a long stick that was supposed to be butter that she put on them all…

Wren asked marc if grandma lynn and gpa could come over and he said maybe… she then said "skyping is kind of like coming over because you get to see people talking"

Luke, Sarah and Zachary came to visit!  We went to the farmer's market yesterday and the park today.  SO MUCH FUN!!!!

We bought bikes and a trailer for the kids.  We finally found helmets for both of them so we took a ride tonight.  We just rode over to a nearby park, but we all had a lot of fun!  I put the camera in a pocket in the trailer by wren and I guess she was trying to help me document it all (hence the picture of me pedaling). In the picture of Wren and Marc she is doing the papa sign. I thought she was just being silly with some weird hand gesture, but she announced that she was doing the sign for papa!

We had fun at the Titus park date last week!  Ms. Tracey brought books and ended up reading to a bunch of the kids.  Wren loved it.  

We had fun at the park today!  I can't believe Wren and Olivia are on the big swings now!  

We recently discovered that madison has shave ice!  We went to a nearby park and then headed over to the shave ice truck!

I know it's been forever! We've been enjoying our summer and uploading pictures is on the bottom of the list.  

Last night was the party and finals for ultimate frisbee.  Marc's team didn't make the finals, but we still wanted to go to see how good the winners were (REALLY good).  We knew it might rain, but as I think all of you know, we don't do umbrellas and we kind of like getting wet.  Well, it POURED!!!  We didn't even stay through the whole game.  The kids loved the rain and z just kept squealing and laughing.  I was cracking up the whole way back to the car I could barely walk.  We were so wet!  Here is a pic of marc and the kids under our picnic blanket (notice z is barely covered and loving it).

We came into chicago a couple weekends ago for my cousin Kyle's graduation party (no pics of that :/).  We spent some time with my Grandma Hilger and z and wren had fun with the walker and cane!  Wren got her nails painted by Aunt Sandy (a definite highlight!).

There's more pictures I need to add, but this will have to do for now!