It's the most wonderful time of the year....October!

 

We kicked off the season with sugar cookies!  

Grandma made them. Mom iced them. 

Lydia sprinkled them into marvelous shimmery masterpieces.

Parade of outfits through our house these days. Posing all the time!

Prince of Peace Elementary Religious Education kicked off with Bible Boot Camp.

The rest of the program is completed at home with Mom as teacher.

We have a great curriculum and Lydia is staying very engaged!

Riggs cousin pictures at the park!

More fun fashion.  

Lydia is the only one who noticed her new winter coat matches her leggings.  

She's ready for the ski slopes, I think.

We've been cheering on the Chiefs, even when it's a struggle.

Making our Mal from Descendants costume props, a spell book.

More outfits, more poses, more charm.

We have to find the biggest pumpkin!

 

We had a beautiful Sunday to explore Powell's Pumpkin Patch!

We wanted to go to a real patch.  

We did not want to go to a place with tons of games, activities and rides.  

Just the pumpkins please.  Nailed it.

Lydia thought the corn measuring board was to see if she was tall enough to go into the corn maze.  

It was not.  It was just to measure her height against and ear of corn.  The maze was simply a field of corn.  Turns out, she was tall enough to roam around the field of corn she thought was a maze.  

The picture where I'm smiling they are not.  

The picture where they are smiling I am not.  

This is us.

Lydia needing some alone time in the pumpkin patch.

She found a nice chair to use.

Found it.  Biggest pumpkin.

Hayride antics.

Our pumpkin haul.

Growth Hormones: One Year Update

 

Fresh Starts, Goodbyes, a Change of Seasons.

Mom and Dad were able to go into school this year!  We saw the entire building, sat at Lydia's desk, and met her teacher.  Cheers to this year - First Grade!

Celebrated our first RED Friday at School and Dad's first day of a NEW Job!

Sometimes Lydia and Everly walk to school together. 

Sometimes they battle the bad guys with light sabers and a bow and arrows.

We were able to spend some time with our St. Louis family this month.  It was bittersweet as we were saying our final goodbyes to Papa Sealey.  So good for us to see these faces.

Lydia hosted her first produce stand.  Tomatoes!  

Thanks to our awesome neighbors she made enough for a new LOL Doll.

Mom and Dad headed to Mexico so Grandma stayed with Lydia for the week.

They hung out with Papa, too, picking apples and loading up the truck.

Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall.  Summer was a rough one for us and fall is proving to be filled with just as many viruses and days home but we will trudge on toward surgery and hopefully some relief.  

Let's enjoy October in the moment.