North's costume is ready!

Finished North's costume. It's all ready for him to wear when we get back.


Almost forgot his crown...

Alan and I also picked our costumes...he's going to be Einstein & I'm going as the Queen of Hearts.
Off with their heads! Yay Halloween!

Getting ready for Halloween...

Finally (re) sewed North's Max hat last night. Now just need to sew the rest of the costume before we leave for Las Vegas this Sunday... we won't be back until Halloween!

Florida

Last week we took a long weekend and headed to Florida to see friends Jon & Carrie get married. While there we got to take North to the beach, celebrate Alan's 30th birthday, and spend time with our very best friends.
We drove down with Levi, Sam, Lincoln, and Betsy which was great fun. While there, we all stayed together in a big house along with Erin & Jeremy. It was such a nice treat getting to spend so much time together with our friends. The house had access to a private pool and beach which we took full advantage of.

The room that we stayed in (with North and Lincoln jumping on the bed)
We drank our drinks through umbrella straws-- seemed more "beachy"--even Lincoln joined in the fun with his juice.

The beach!

The wedding ceremony and reception were absolutely beautiful. I can't imagine a more lovely wedding. The day after the ceremony we met up with Jon & Carrie so that they could get some more casual photos taken on the beach and we could all head to dinner together and celebrate Alan's 30th birthday.

North tried to follow Lincoln everywhere...

Somehow Jeremy always gets stuck with the task of chasing after babies..

Jeremy brought a cake with the Canterbury Effect heart on it--which we proudly were able to keep hidden from Alan until his birthday.

Jeremy also brought a few gifts for Alan, including a fake poop, which has led to great amusement.
For Alan's birthday we went to Lousiana Lagniappe. Alan and North enjoyed reading the wine list together.

Driving

Letting the babies get some energy out on the drive

A proper, picture-ful update

With the camera back, we have snapped lots of random pictures as of late and so, I thought I would post a few with updates on what we've been up to.

First up are some photos of North eating some freshly picked grape tomatoes from our garden. With frost nearly upon us I figured it was time to celebrate these lovely plants before we bid them farewell for the winter. North has seemed to really like the garden this summer and enjoys poking around the tomato and pepper plants searching for ripe finds to pick and eat.

And yeah, we know he needs a hair cut. We'll get to it soon enough. We think it's pretty cute and it doesn't bother him so...we're in no big rush for that first big cut.

and speaking of hair...
if we cut it all off, we couldn't do this...or this...
North has become very very talkative lately. Here's a picture of him making declarations at the Indian Restaurant--finger in the air and everything.
He does this super cute thing sometimes where he holds his tongue out a little bit while giggling.
A week ago was Lotus Festival in Bloomington. Alan had to work over the weekend but North and I were able to head to the 3rd street park and watch the free concert in the park all afternoon with 2 of his favorite ladies, Samantha and Jen, his caregivers at CVCCC and their kiddos (Logan & Ruby) and pups (Sasha & Millie).

Distracted by a traffic cone... the amazing stilt walkers...North's angry face...kind of hard not to laugh right? But don't. That just makes him more angry. For some reason we always seem to get a lot of photos of him eating...
Taco cheese...My first attempt at his Max hat. Which for some reason I decided to sew after he went to bed by making up the pattern and guesstimating his head size...turns out...his head is bigger than I guessed. Will have to re-do in a larger size.
This was also the morning we discovered that over the summer North has not only decided he hates sleeves but has also decided he now hates hats. It was cold so we tried to put one on him for school. He was not pleased...