Sunday we went out apple picking at honey pot hill orchard in Stowe. It was a quintessential fall day, although a bit hot by the time we were done. We parked in a field, bought our bags, rode on a hay ride pulled by a tractor, saw some animals (chickens, goats, pigs, sheep, and bunnies), ate cider donuts and rode on the hay ride again before actually picking some apples. In the end, the actual picking was a very small amount of time. Josie got right into it and was super speedy at ripping the apples off the tree (video to come later). She picked our whole bag for us except maybe one apple. She was also unfortunately a bit under the weather as well and so Jordi carried her most of the time to help her conserve energy. We got home and dismantled most of the apples into crisp, pie and applesauce form. With one crisp nicely stashed away in my freezer for after the baby is here. Here’s a couple of photos of the beautiful weather and friendly people.
Baby dolls like to cuddle. Mickey? George? Anybody. That’s Josie’s new bed by the way, not terribly exciting as it’s just a mattress on the floor, but we all like it.
Josie just looked super cute the other day and so we did a little photo shoot outside to get some more photos of just her, while she’s still our one and only!
Nap time is serious business at our house. 6 out of the 7 beings in the house were sleeping. 4 in this shot sitting right next to me at the computer (kaya is in the top perch). We’ve all been enjoying the beautiful weather and the ability to leave the windows open.
did I make you click extra quick? Josie managed to buckle herself the entire way in. She is definitely over the weight limit at this point though, wouldn’t be if we got the bigger version, but she hated this seat anyway. She likes putting her doll in it now, we’ll have to throw it in the car though.
You see a lot of photos from the zoo because we’re members and we’re cheap. So once membership has been bought, we use it frequently! Jordi doesn’t get to go that often though because it’s often a weekday trip for me and another mom. This time we went on the weekend to stone zoo. Josie was on the hunt for Flamingo’s the entire time, yet kept picking the slowest path through the zoo to find them. It’s always a fun place to take pictures, Jordi had the camera most of the time so these are his shots. It was the first time Josie walked the whole zoo too pretty much. Not too big a place, but tiring enough.
Weekend that is. We enjoyed a relaxing trip down to RI to visit our friends Stef and Koos and their kids Xander and Zoe to celebrate the weekend with a BBQ and friends. We brought our bounce house which was a big hit and we were glad to be able to use it again. Amongst this group of friends I’ll only be the second one to have the second kid and their kids are mostly a couple of months older than Josie. It’s a very different dynamic getting to look at the older kids and see what they’re capable of in only a few short months beyond Josie. Toilet-training is in full effect with most everyone and the ability to hear what they’re all thinking is funny. It’s nice to not have to be eagle-eyed hawks over the kids too as they generally play better together.
The super-short video below is of the pinata. Josie was disturbed that we were purposefully trying to break something, given how often I warn her not to do something that might break something. She did a good job trying to whack though for her age. It took a couple of grown men (using only one arm) to bring it down though.
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