We enjoyed a beautiful October. Tommy went on 3 business trips (Chicago, Minneapolis, and Connecticut). I enjoyed lots of projects with making Halloween costumes and painting our kitchen.
I went with Bradley on his preschool fieldtrip to Neiderman Farm. It was really fun and cute to see him with his classmates.
Miss Kate and a bunch of 4 year olds loving on a very sweet kitten.
Our family went to Shaw farms to pick out our pumpkins. Caleb was obsessed with the animals they have!
We discovered a new park that we LOVE! It has artificial hills with turf and you can slide down them. So so so cool.
We enjoyed lots of good time outside. :)
We painted our kitchen gray/blue (used to be bright yellow). It was a big project but I'm enjoying the results.
We had lots of Halloween fun this year. We were monsters! I had a lot of fun creating and sewing the costumes this year. It was all Bradley's idea and he was very involved, which was fun. We had a Halloween playgroup, Bradley's preschool party, church party, and pizza and trick-or-treating with our neighbors.
Bradley finally learned to confidently pedal this month!!! He has kinda known how but for some reason tricycles/bikes have been intimidating to him so he just wouldn't even try. I tried just being patient and encouraging, but he was never ready. When we got our first batch of Halloween candy, I decided to put it to good use. I drew a chalk road on our back patio and told him for every 5 laps he did he could have a piece of candy. That did the trick!! The first few times were frustrating for him and I had to help him quite a bit, but he quickly got the hang of it and now enjoys it! Yay yay yay!!! He now rides and doesn't even ask for the candy. :) Super proud of him. We had lots of conversations about how practicing helps us learn how to do hard things. Those conversations and his new confidence have helped him try a few other new things.
He has been looking super grown up to me lately.
And he has been super into cutting paper.
Caleb is walking! He has improved so much and is now walking just as much as crawling. I've decided Caleb is a home body. Most of my friends think he is so grumpy because he always is when we are with other people, but when we are just at home by ourselves playing, he is so happy and fun! That is completely opposite of Bradley, so I'm used to always trying to get out, but I need to take more time at home for Caleb.
Other pictures from the month:
These pictures are blurry because they were moving so much but they make me laugh. They love ice cream!
