Fall fun

Well I would like to say we have been really busy, but we have just been lacking sleep. Who knew Carter would be my bad sleeper?!!? Hopefully we are over the hump of it. Last night he slept from 8 all the way to 5:20!!! It seems early to most, but it wasn't between 2 - 4 and he didn't get up once in between. I can handle 5:20 because that is usually when Kinley wakes up. The difference is she goes back to sleep......Carter does not. I am sure glad I know where to get some good coffee :)

We have been sticking pretty close to home as there isn't much going on at 5 in the morning :) We packed a lot into our weekend though. We had our dinner club on Sunday. There are about 9 couples and we pick a country and we all cook something from it. We switch houses each month as well. We still haven't had everyone show up at once....we are a little scared that might happen soon! With 18 adults and 8 kids it could get a little crazy! We had lots of fun and I made a pineapple upside down cake with a dark rum sauce (it was a caribbean theme). All our kids are around the same age and we all seem to be having our second together as well.

Monday was our Gymnastics day. Carter did great. It was his best week yet. He listened to Jaice and the teacher. I missed half the class because I had some running around to do. He was telling me all the things he did at gymnastics, it was really cute! For the afternoon we went out to the pumpkin patch. We got the same photographer we had do our family photos in June come out with us. The pumpkins made for a beautiful background. Carter had so much fun running around in the pumpkin patch. He would have picked all the pumpkins he could lift if we would have let him. We settled on 2 bigger ones (daddy had to help get them in our wagon) and Carter snuck in a smaller one! They also have goats and chickens out there. Carter had lots of fun feeding them. He went to give the goat some kisses.....I didn't think that was a good idea! We just stuck to feeding them. I can't wait to get the pictures back from Kayla. She put up a few sneak peaks, so I put them on here for you!

I finally got some shots of Kinley smiling! What a cutie. She is smiling at the fan mostly but she will also smile for Jaice and I as well.

I have really been working on counting and letters with Carter. He can now count to 10 when he is counting things! It is so cute listening to him 'park' his cars and then count them. He can say the whole alphabet and recognizes most letters. He has pretzels in the shape of letters so he keeps asking me to 'read it' when he pulls out a letter he doesn't know or it is broken.

I will share more pictures as we get them!

We miss everyone lots and hope everyone is having a good fall.