Hayride

We had a great weekend enjoying the outdoors with the kiddos.  Luke had a blast playing in all the leaves. This past week Emil ended up spending a couple days in the hospital after his leg wound became infected, but he was out by the weekend.  We're glad to report that it is doing much better now.  Luke told us on the way to the hospital to visit him, "I'm going to ask the doctor if I can kiss Grandpa's boo-boo."  Awww.  The other big news this week is that we found a tick on baby Claire!  It was on her ear underneath the top fold on the inside, hiding.  We found it on Monday, and she must have gotten it the day before when we went hiking.  We got it off and it was a little irritated around the site, but then it went back to normal.  We identified it as a deer tick, though, so we are freaking out about the potential for Lyme's Disease.  The pediatrician said that disease transfer usually takes 72 hours (and hers was on only about 24 hours), and that unless there is a rash or she has a fever, we shouldn't have anything to worry about.  Hopefully that's the case!

Here are some pics from the week.

"Let me out!" or maybe she's saying "Let me in!"

Playdate on Saturday with neighbor Max and his parents Caroline and Steve

Holding my bottle like it ain't no thang

Hit the park on Saturday afternoon while on a bike ride around town.  

Playing in a leaf pile

Luke liked putting leaves on Claire's head

These don't taste that good

Here's a video of Luke jumping into the pike of leaves from a running start.

Her hair is getting so long.  Mealtime is getting messier and messier as she asserts her independence and wants to feed herself.

Matt rigged up this homemade hayride.  Luke LOOOOOOVED it.  

I couldn't tell if he liked the tractor hayride or the jumping in the leaves portion of the activity more.  

Matt pulling the stroller with Claire in it so all 4 of us could go on the hayride.

First year I had brussel sprouts in my garden.  So cool to see them growing on the stalk like this.  They were a little on the small side, but they tasted great!  Luke liked to pull them off the stem.

Visit to see D&E, since Donna was back from CO

Dumping a load of Lukers

We also pulled beets out of our garden.  Luke and I were the only two family members who ate the beets:)

Matt singing along to the music with a suuuper messy Claire bear enjoying the show

Sometimes after dinner it is just easier to strip her than clean her up

Yesterday Luke had his first eye doctor appointment.  He did great and he has perfect eyesight.

Yesterday (11/11) we also had our first snow of the season!  Glad we got all of our Fall family fun in before winter hit.