fall fun

We are already missing Fall around here, although I can't really complain because we've taken walks all this week and it's the second week of December :).  We did all we could to get outside in the beautiful weather.  Lots of play dates and lots of playing outside and walks.

Visit from Papa.  B absolutely loves his Papa.  He wants him to play all day and sit by him and show him everything.  It is so sweet.

We went to West Lafayette for our annual Purdue tailgate.  It was a lot more work this year as compared to last to keep up with a mobile toddler! He wanted to walk run everywhere and it was hard to keep tabs on him between all the cars.  More importantly, he had a blast and it was so fun to have him back there and to experience it with our family.  Little Boilermaker already!

We did lots of playdates with our buddies Amber and Nolan.  Park days and the pumpkin patch! Barrett and Nolan act more like brothers than best friends.  Always wanting what the other has and arguing.  There may or may not have been some timeouts in the middle of the pumpkin patch for stealing each other's pumpkins and pushing/hitting.

We had some great weekends with Daddy off work for working out in the yard and enjoying the weather.  We even took some trips to the airport!

Visit with the Millers and new baby Emmett!  The older Henry and Barrett get, the more they are able to play with one another.  Every visit is even better than the last!  They played together (and fought over toys as well haha) and Henry enjoyed showing B how to be gentle with his new baby brother.  It was so fun to catch up with Jamie too!

We also had a play date with Ashley and Madi! We had a Panera lunch and then spent the afternoon at the park.  B wanted to be like the big kids and do all the big slides.  He also loved pointing out all the colors and shapes he saw on the playground :)  Afterwards, we made our way to visit Lauren and Harper!  Harper has gotten so big since we had seen her last.  She is such a sweet and happy baby!  I just love being with friends and their little ones.  It makes everything so much more fun!

I can only hope every Fall from now on is as great as this one was.  Here's to the holidays with our little man!

 

clark kent and a monkey

The weather the week before and the week after Halloween was UNREAL! The most beautiful weather.  Fall was in full force with the blazing leaves and warm sun, but Summer stuck around for some perfect mid 70's temps.  Just the best ever!  We did a lot of playing outside, park trips, and walks.  I don't want it to end!

I had bought a couple costumes for B, but none really worked out.  So we used what we had and made him into Clark Kent! Which was equally hilarious and adorable.  It ended up being too chilly to trick-or-treating to wear just this, so we went out the day before and snapped some pics! (And yes, bribery with Kix was necessary :) )

Ah, what a comparison!

As usual, Halloween brought cooler temps for it's festivities and some rain.  Luckily the rain held off for about an hour to take Barrett trick-or-treating for the first time!  We went up to Lafayette on Saturday so we could spend Halloween with Matt's brother's family and so Barrett could trick or treat with his cousins.  

We watched the radar and noticed a clearing in the rain so we scrambled to get their kids into their costumes.  We went with the monkey costume since it'd be much warmer and to our surprise Abby was a monkey too! It was so cute to see the two of them in the wagon together and walking up to houses dressed up as monkeys :).  Daniel was a ninja and decided the babies' pace was too slow so he went ahead to get a bag full of candy!  

We weren't totally sure what they would do, or if they'd have any clue what it was all about, but boy were we wrong!  The little ones only needed us to show them what to do at one house and then they were ready to go! We pulled them in the wagon around the neighborhood and when we'd get close to a house they'd say "out!" and would go up to the porch to knock on the door.  Once they'd open their door they knew exactly what to do with the candy, right into the buckets! They weren't afraid to take more than one.  Barrett even had saying "trick or treat!" down, it was SO cute! In fact, on our walk the other day he saw a piece of candy on the floor and yelled "trick or treat!".

It was so much fun to watch B experience trick or treating, especially with some family.  Everything is so much more fun with this little guy around :).