colleen writes: October Love

October is always such a great month. We really love all the sights and smells of a Michigan fall. It was a busy month for us. So busy, in fact, we didn't even have a chance to visit our cottage. This months marks the one-year anniversary of buying it! It has brought us some great memories this past year, and we are looking forward to making many more. Adam and I also celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary this month. We had some fun plans that we made, but unfortunately the plague ripped through our home and it just happened to hit me over our anniversary, so we have rescheduled our fun plans until December when the babysitter is available again!

Something really momentous happened this month......Gabrielle wrote her name!! Now I have been working with Gabrielle on letter recognition and letter formation for about a year, and that is just proof that kids truly accomplish things only when they are ready. She was just like, "I'm gonna write my name, Mom." And sure enough she wrote it small and neat as she signed a rather small Halloween card. We were so proud! Gabrielle is not the easiest name, that's for sure.

Onto some Carter news: he is a talking maniac!! Some of his new words are up, get down, bub-bye, apple, grape, pumpkin (although his version sounds like ba-pump), milk, Amen, and book. He just put two words together, too, which was cool..."Bye-bye, Dada." He may talk even more than Gabrielle did at that age! I need to go back and look. He loves to play with his cars and trucks and he also loves to play in Gabrielle's kitchen. He also loves to read his car and truck books. He brings them to either Adam or myself and plops down in our laps. He has a book that has baby faces in it, and he loves that one. He likes to look at pictures of dogs, cats, and other animals!

This month is better said in pictures, so below are several of our highlights! See ya in November!

Carter loved the three light up pumpkins, and he liked to take me to each one to show me.