Feels like fall!

It is really starting to feel like fall, my absolute favorite season. The Halloween candy is starting to come out, the Bison football season is in full swing, and Starbucks has their pumpkin spice latte back. Today Adam and I got to do a fun fall activity, apple picking. We joined Rikki, Joel and Meeks at Orchard Glen in South Fargo for a fun morning of fresh air, climbing trees, and of course picking apples. This is actually a fairly popular thing to do, so all of the low apples had already been picked over so you really had to get up in the tree to get the good ones up top. On a side note, Adam is getting much better at walking. He still needs a little encouragement to get going, but he can take a good five step before losing balance. Watch out everyone he is almost on the run!

Rikki in a tree.

Meeks in a tree.

Joel attempting to get the biggest apple.

You can kind of seem me in the tree throwing apples down at Meeks.

Even Adam got a little tree climbing in.

Riding along with uncle Joel!

The whole apple picking crew!

A very nice lady showed us this swing, Adam was a little small for it but he still had fun.

Everybody loves a parade!

We took Adam to the West Fest parade this weekend. It was the longest parade ever, lasting just over 2 hours. Adam was quite the candy magnet as well. He even had two West Fargo volleyball players come over from their float to give him a handful of candy. He got a taste of his first tootsie roll (brown drool everywhere). Saturday night we had some friends over to watch the bison game. They unfortunately lost, but it was still great having everyone over. Of course, here are some fun pictures from the weekend.

13 months

Again, another busy week. Our little man had to make a trip to the doctor this week for a double ear infection and pink eye. We did get his weight. He is now 24 1/2 pounds. He is healing well and still up to all of his old tricks, and a few new ones. On Friday, I was down in the cities for a Microbiology workshop. It was fun to meet my mom for a full day of talking shop. Ryan has been with Coke for a couple weeks now, and things are going really well. We both think that this was the right move for Ryan. Yesterday, we went up to Funcle (fun uncle) Aaron's to watch some football. Adam was decked out in his huge Farve jersey. See below.

No Daddy, I don't want to be a Packer fan!

Cuddle time with Funcle Aaron

Here are Adam's new tricks!

Busy times

It has been a pretty busy week around here. My friend Michelle has been staying with us for the past week which has been wonderful. It has really given us a change to catch up on everything and spend time together like we use to. We have had quite a few other visitors as well. Grandmas and Grandpa Childs stopped for a quick visit with cousin Cathy and Aunt Edie. Sandy and Diane even got a chance to stop by and meet Adam. It was so nice to see the family and do a little catching up . Adam, of course, was up to all of his old tricks with everyone around. You would never know that he was sick again with pink eye and an ear infection (poor baby). I don't have any new pictures for you all, with homework and house guests I have been a little swamped. So here are some pictures from Adam's two days with Grandma Cathy. I think they were both worn out after all of this.

They had breakfast together

They got some play time in

They went on some fun walks

Adam seems like he is looking for trouble in this picture.

Looks like he found it!

Grandma even had him doing manual labor like pulling weeds

and helping with the laundry

Here's our dirty boy getting all cleaned up!

and getting in one last story before going to bed. What a busy day!

Back from vacation.

Well, it's been a fun week, but it's time to get back to reality. Robin and I both had a week off (I actually ended up with a few weeks off) which we spent together in Duluth. It's been a long time since I've been up to Duluth in the summer and I had forgotten how pretty and fun it is. We went over there for a wedding last Saturday for Sarah Sederski (now known as Sarah Walker). We had a fun time and she was very beautiful, but the highlight of the night was Robin (actually all of us) seeing her maid of honor Michelle Short recently back from her two and a half year stint in Africa as a member of the Peace Corps. Cathy and Glen still had to work the first part of the week while we were there so we spent a fair amount of time over at Granny and Papa's to visit them and Uncle Dave. This summer they put up a swing for Adam and have all been very excited to see him try it out. Adam lived up to all the hype as he loved swinging here no matter how high or how rough or how spinney it got. Glen left on a fishing trip early Wednesday morning and Cathy had Thursday and Friday off so Robin and I spent a couple nights up the shore. We stayed at Temperance River State Park. We were camping about 5o yds from Lake Superior and could see it well from our campsite. The weather the whole week was excellent, however it stormed pretty hard the two nights we were in the tent. We took some nice long (many many steps, both up and down) hikes in the state parks along the North Shore Drive. We even got to ride our bikes some and do some shopping up in Grand Marais. Friday we packed it up and headed back to Duluth, exhausted. We spent a couple more days visiting family and just got back yesterday. It was great to get out of town and remembering how to relax again. Here are just a few pictures from the past week to tie you over. Robin, I'm sure, will post more soon.

Robin and Michelle at Sarah's wedding

Michelle with Adam

Adam enjoying his swing!