Happy Fall!

To celebrate the start of the fall season, we went with some friends to farm where we could pick pumpkins and take Christopher on a hayride. He had a good time! Chris bought a big pumpkin he's going to carve and leave on our front porch.

Christopher is 15 months old now and is doing well. He is still pretty picky with eating dinner, so we give him plenty of food in the first part of the day. He likes waffles and eggs with lots of syrup for breakfast, and he actually loves the vegetable juice from V8 that also has fruit juice in it, so that's great. I've been making him banana bread with lots of banana which he likes also. But as far as plain old vegetables, not lately. He used to love them with meat and he's been refusing them lately. I ordered Deceptively Delicious which is a cookbook that gives you recipes that have lots of vegetables that kids like, so I hope to get some ideas from it.

School is very busy this semester for me, but it looks like I should be applying to internships next Fall. Below are some pictures from our pumpkin picking day. Have a good one!

Andrea

Here's a few pictures from our visit to Chris' parents' new place a few weeks ago.

Christopher is doing a new trick grammy taught him, which is puckering his lips.






Here we're at my friend Deanna's BBQ


Not much new going on, school starts for me this week. My first class is Thursday. I'm eager to get the semester started and make progress towards graduation. I'll be taking comps in the spring which is a two-week period where you are given 4 questions to write papers about. I haven't finalized the topic areas I'll do my questions on yet, that's what I'm working on this semester. Its an extremely stressful process, I've run into people during those 2 weeks and they look really exhausted! It seems terrible! Then you also do the oral comps 2 weeks later. I look forward to getting them over with next spring.

Its been a pretty nice summer with lots of trips to the beach and the park. Christopher and I just got back from there where he had a playdate with his friend Jacob, whose mother was in my prenatal class. Yesterday, Chris and I were both off for labor day and took Christopher on an exciting adventure to Petsmart to look at the fish - its like the zoo to a one-year old! He liked the fish and birds.

Have a good week!
Andrea