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| Alma loves to wear her pink cowgirl boots while watching Sesame Street. |
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This Fall we were a very busy household. After Alma got her casts off we were trying to make up for lost fun-time and started lots of fun projects with the kids. Alma started taking horseback riding lessons from her cousin Lacey and Great-Uncle Brian. She really enjoyed being on the horse and was always trying to make poor Shadow go faster by kicking him in the head.
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| Hadrian is 6 months old - and ready to crawl! |
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| Alma riding with Lacey and Uncle Brian at Paradise Ridge. |
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| Alma and Mommy! |
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| A cowgirl in the making. |
Hadrian started to crawl at 6 months, and at 7 months he started using Alma's walker to cruise around the house. We can't get over how fast he is growing up, it seems like we replace his wardrobe on a bi-weekly basis. He loves to play in the Kitchen while we cook, and enjoys the small kitchen play set we keep for the kids. Mostly he bangs on the pots and pans. Hadrian also really enjoys to go on long walks. He is very rarely a cranky baby, but whenever he starts to fuss we just strap him into the carrier and head out the door and he smiles the entire time.
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| Hadrian's kitchen. |
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| Ready for a brisk Fall walk. |
This year our apple harvest was out of control! We were begging all of our friends and family to come and pick apples and we gave away more bins than we can remember. We also took several bins to local food banks. Our dear friends, the Jarolimek family, helped us with the harvest and then we had all of our friends over to make Apple Cider for our second annual Apple Mash. Good times were had by all! But then I spend what seemed like an eternity preserving fruit . . . pie filling, apple butter, pear honey, and enough applesauce to feed my kids for an entire year.
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| Harvesting our apple crop. |
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| Alma is the Queen of the Apples! |
We also started going to the Pullman City Pool on Friday nights. It is
such an awesome facility! They have a very shallow (18 inch) heated pool
for the kids and both Alma and Hadrian liked the freedom to scoot
around and splash. They also have a giant bins of bath tub toys that
kids are free to play with, so it is really like having a giant bathtub!
Alma gets so excited when we arrive that we have to hold her down and
wrestle her into her swim suit because she wants to jump in the pool
right away.
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| Alma and Mommy at swimming night. |
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| Hadrian and Daddy. |
One of Alma's new favorite activities is to watch Mommy bake. She really loves to watch the Kitchen Aid mixer go round and round, and Hadrian loves to eat warm oatmeal cookies right out of the oven.
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| Baking cookies. |
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| Hadrian ready to eat the cookies! |
