New routine

It's a little strange to have all the kids in school and have complete one on one time with baby. 

We're getting into our new groove.  We take a morning walk/jog as long as it's not raining.  The leaves are just starting to turn.  It is my favorite time of year here. 

I will miss the New England autumn.

Yom Kippur

Today there is no school because it is Yom Kippur.  I thought about driving a few hours to Block Island, but the ferries are only open on weekends now.  I thought about heading into the city for the day, but my baby is still sick and cranky and I didn't want to take the train with him for an hour each way.  Soooo, we stayed here and did not much of anything.  Sawyer and Hayden played video games.  McKinley watched cartoons and made me start making her Halloween costume.  She wants to be a Greek Goddess from her Goddess Girls books.  I am making her a dress, yipes!  Once baby woke up from his nap I made everyone go outside for a bike ride.  It took a while to get it together because of the flat bike tires and the one wailing whiney child who didn't want to go outside.  When we finally got him out the door with shoes on he ended up falling off his bike.  In between his sobbing he told me "I told you I didn't want to go for a bike ride!"  He wanted to walk his bike the rest of the way back home (about 1.75 miles), but I made him get back on his bike.  We got to cruise down the hill at an overly cautious speed of about 0.25 miles an hour.  Arrrgh!

We ended the night with indoor football while I made chocolate chip pancakes for dinner, because that's what we eat for dinner when daddy's out of town for the week.

Another power outage

Last night a storm system came through with tornado watches.  Luckily we just got a lot of rain and no tornados.  Unfortunately our power went out for almost 24 hours. 

I sure won't miss that about Connecticut.  It's time to bury these stinking power lines.

Sleeping like a baby

Josh missed his afternoon nap to catch Sawyer's football game on Saturday.  We had to use his front-facing car seat in the truck, so got to see his eyelids get heavier and heavier.  I love watching sleeping children.  He is precious!

Fall Flag Football

We were out of town last week, so Sawyer broke into his fall flag football this weekend.  He is on the orange team again...he wanted to be blue.  This game was played on the high school turf.  It was fun to watch.  It looked like a miniature real football game.

Good thing it is flag football, because there is already a lot of pushing and blocking.  The other team even got a penalty for tackling orange too much.  Oops.

Sawyer is excited to play tackle next year!

11 months

Today Joshua is 11 months old.  One more month before his first year is complete!

At 11 months:

He still has 8 teeth.

He loves to crawl.

He loves to grab-hold our fingers so we can lead him around and walk him.

Loves to eat whatever we are eating.

Is trying to say hi to people to greet them.  It comes out as an "Ah", but you can see the little wheels turning in his head...says his mother.

His hair is lighter still, like McKinley's, but we've noticed an auburn tinge to it.

Has a favorite blanky-his white fuzzy one.

Likes to squnch his nose up and snuffle out. 

Is completely adored by his brothers and sister, and parents.

Happy 11 months old Joshua!

Our last day on PEI.

This was the view off the back deck of the beach house.  Today all the storms are gone.  It would be the perfect beach day.  Sigh.  I'm so glad I got to visit Prince Edward Island.  If it wasn't so blasted far away I could spend every summer there.

On the way to the Confederation bridge we stopped at Victoria on the south shore of the island to see more red cliffs and beaches.  I got my first lobster roll at the Lobster Barn pub and eatery on the wharf in Victoria.  It was delicious.  And that is from a girl who is now a seafood fan.

After an obscene $44 toll to leave PEI on their bridge, we drove straight through to Bangor for an overnight rest.

In the morning we drove from Bangor back to Connecticut.  Thank heavens we had books on tape.  We listened to the first three Gregor the Overlander books.  There were no major car traveling mishaps.  It was a roadtrip miracle.

I think the kids would say their favorite part of the trip was the beaches (when I let them go in) and the sea glass.