Hayride at the beautiful Weidmayer (my parents) Farm

Sunday afternoon we went on a hayride at my parents house, it was their church fall get together.  The weather turned out great, it was 58 degrees and partially sunny.  We had overdressed a little bit with our long underwear, but I wasn't cold that's for sure.

Our friends Erik & Julie and their kids Blake and Megan joined us.  Blake and Emily were so cute walking around holding hands.  Emily seems to instigate most of the time, and always runs up and grabs Blake's hand, then she tries to lead him where she wants to go.  Sometimes she even bosses him around a little and he will say no if he isn't interested, but most of the time he says "Ok Emily."  

Yesterday Emily had a well child check up at the doctor, she is just over 28 pounds (50% for weight) and almost 38 inches tall (95% for height).  The doctor said she looks great and is growing a lot, she asked if we have tall people in our family over 6 feet as well.  I don't but some of Jim's cousin's are like 6'6" and 6'8", Jim is only 6'1" which is perfect.  I hope Emily continues to be tall, I always wanted to be taller.  We have also weaned Emily off one of her reflux medications, and we are going to try and wean her off her Prevacid next, I sure hope we can be medicine free soon!  Emily will be 2.5 in about a month, wow how time flies.

Princesses Emily & Sydney

Yesterday we went over to my friend Anne's house.  Emily loved dressing up in the Dora dress and playing Sydney's guitar.  Sydney turned 3 last month so she is a little bit older than Emily, and was so cute showing Emily her toys.  When it was time to leave they were hiding out in Sydney's princess tent and Emily did not want to go home.  It was such a nice relaxing morning, Anne made lunch and we just sat and chatted while the girls played.  It's nice that Emily will play and not demand my assistance or attention as much.  I can now enjoy girl talk with my friends.

Blake's Actual Birthday October 21st

Wednesday we had a great day celebrating the nice fall day and Blake's 3rd Birthday.   We started by going to our weekly Music Together class at the Center of the Arts.  Emily loves music class, her favorite time is when they get to play musical instruments, and Emily always chooses the drum.  Here is Emily and Blake playing their drums during class.  Emily also enjoyed Miss Tara playing the violin and guitar this week.  Miss Tara has played several different instruments, I look forward to the week she brings her cello seeing I used to play and I know that Miss Tara's main instrument she plays in the cello.  

After music class we went to Three Cedar Farms and had a fun day with lunch and a hay ride.  Jaimie, Josie and Ruby, Erik, Julie, Blake and Megan all went to the farm.  We decided it would be fun if my parents did something like this with their farm, maybe when my dad retires they can start doing hay rides and fun events for the public. They had little tractors, big tractors, slides, trains, goats and so many fun things to do.  Emily's favorite was the hay ride, which she says was very bouncy!

Beautiful Fall Day - October 20th

A couple of days ago Emily and I went for a long walk and spent the afternoon outside.  It was 62 degrees and beautiful.  Luckily right when we were getting to the end of our driveway our neighbor Anne was taking her 4 month old puppy for a walk so we walked together for a mile or 2.  It was nice having someone to chat with.  Anne has daughters close to my age who have children so we talked kids and neighborhood happenings, etc.  

These pictures are kinda funny, Emily  had to take all these things on our walk, she had a softball in her glove and Lucy came and took it out of her glove.  Emily was so shocked and made at Lucy, I am not sure if you can tell in this picture what happened.

I can reach the rings!

Tuesday we met a friend at the Treehouse in Chelsea.  It's a wonderful place, but we hadn't been in months.  I was amazed that in the few months since we been there, now Emily can reach the rings ALL BY HERSELF!  She was so proud of herself.  Plus Emily climbs up to the top by herself and goes down the slides by herself too.  What a big girl.  I had a great time relaxing, sitting and talking with my friend while Emily played with Addison is who is a couple months older than Emily.  We had snacks, and lunch there and ended up staying almost 3 hours.  Emily took a great nap that day after all of the climbing and running around, yeah!

Fun with Luke

Our friends Carrie and Brian had a baby girl (Ava) a few weeks ago, so on Sunday Emily and I took them a meal.  Unfortunately Jim was busy and couldn't come with us.  Emily had a blast playing with their son Luke who is about 2.5 months younger than Emily.  Luke has this silly Elmo that burps and makes silly noises, Emily was cracking up at him.  I got home and couldn't believe I didn't get one picture of Ava, I was so bummed out.   Hopefully I will get to see sweet Ava again soon.

Fall Festival at Salem

Last Sunday we went to Salem's Fall Festival.  Emily loved the moon bounce and part of the time she was the only kid in it and she just jumped and jumped and jumped.  I was happy because she took a great nap that afternoon too.  Here is Emily jumping, unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of her looking at the camera.