Well tomorrow I am off to pick more apples. This time they are the Fuji apples, which are some of the best apples you can get. It is supposed to rain this weekend so I need to get my apple picking in. I mostly enjoy just being in the outdoors and wandering through the orchard. It will be a cold one, but I am excited, this is definitely goin gto be a future family tradition!!

Ok so we went apples picking and we decided on a 20lb bag of apples to pick.  The boys had a lot of fun and I loved meandering through the apple orchard and finding the perfect apples.  Nicholas took a bite of a rotten apple before we could stop him, so I think it turned him off to the whole apple eating thing.  Once they got the hang of it, they were picking all sorts of apples, faster than me and my husband could look at them  lol!

Now I have 20 lbs of apples, and I figured I would be industrious in the kitchen, and make some apple pies and homemade applesauce, neither of which I have a clue on how to make really.   I love to cook but I have never actually made an apple pie.  I have made “pie like” dishes but never an actual fruit pie.   So I have passed by this huge bag of apples like 30 times, and I have decided that I will attempt to make a pie.  My dear husband has requested an apple pie with no apple chunks of any kind.  He has some weird texture issue (*rolls eyes*).  So how do I make an “applesauce” pie…I guess you would call it that?   To me you might as well slap some Musselman’s  in a pie crust and heat it up.  He doesn’t know what hes missing….a piece of warm apple pie and a scoop of vanilla ice cream yum!

So If anyone has any suggestions for a mush apple pie…please enlighten me.   I will be keeping you posted with my apple endeavor.  I intend on making a few pies and some applesauce.

It has been many years since I have gone apple picking or even gone to a pumpkin patch.   We will be taking the boys this weekend to pick out pumpkins for the family and to do a little apple picking.   We have told them that we are going to get pumpkins so they are really excited about it.   Alexander is most excited about taking a hay ride with the tractor.   He is so in love with things like tractors, bulldozers, and type of machinery.   He cried when he had to go to bed, he was already going to find his shoes after bath to go to the pumpkin path  LOL!   I am looking forward to a wonderful day and just watching the boys get all excited about picking out their pumpkins and “reaching high like daddy” to pick apples.  I will surely get lots of pictures!

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Both of my boys received their first set of legos for their birthday and they love playing with them.  They love to try and figure out how to stick them on top of each other.  I like to get fancy and build little archways for them to drive their cars through.  They are great for developing thier spatial, cognitive and perception skills.  Legos have been around since I was a child and that is a long time (wont elaborate on how long that is!).  This day in age the things you can do with legos has grown beyond my imagination.  With the upcoming holidays I am sure there is a little guy or gal on your list that would love to have them!

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My boys love to go with my husband in the wagon up to the schools playground, so I usually take advantage of this time to get a few things done. So I ran to get a little shopping done and on my way home I stopped at the playground. My husband tells me that Alex is “soupy man” and at first it didn’t register that he was saying he is Superman lol! My husband was grabbing him and flying him off the jungle gym and saying he was Superman and Alexander says he is “Soupy Man”….so cute. I guess I need to get my little superhero a cape!

Well, it was a picture taking weekend for me and the boys. I did my first photo session outside of my home and I think I did pretty well. I still have a lot to learn, but I captured some good images over the weekend and hopefully I will get them up here sometime in the next few days.

The boys had their first experience with the ice cream truck which was fun. It brought back so many memories of my childhood. I wanted to get a frozen toe ice cream, which I loved as a kid, but unfortunately they were out of them. I took lots of pictures of the boys enjoying their bomb pops which seemed to have grown in size over the years! These things were huge! They, of course, made an enormous mess of the things, but that’s part of the fun! It gives me so much enjoyment just to watch these two growing up, and not only that you sort of get to experience being a kid again. I can’t wait for that ice cream truck to come back down the street

Wednesday we took the boys to see the Wiggles. My husband wasn’t all too thrilled to be going but the boys really enjoyed it. We had the greatest seat ever and I wanted to take pictures and I brought my camera, but forgot my memory card in the card reader at home UGH! Alexander, got a little antsy about 30 minutes into the show but Nicholas, on the other hand, loved it! When the Wiggles came out in their “big red car” , the look on their faces was so cute! The both were grinning from ear to ear and they were captivated. We had so much fun and I hope to take them again next year. The next morning they both woke up talking about the “waggles” as they call them LOL. So cute!

Well I thought I would share a new funny thing that Alexander is doing. This is a prime example of just how smart your toddler can be LOL. Whenever Alexander is busy doing something that he isn’t supposed to be, he has figured out a way in his mind to pretend he isn’t doing anything. If you call his name in that parental tone, or ask him what he is doing, he will quickly say “Hi!” and squint his little eyes and give you this cheesy grin. He has already figured out how to manipulate the situation in his little mind. Sometimes it makes it very hard for me to maintain a straight face because it is so incredibly funny to me. He is such a little stinker and ohh so smart! I keep telling my husband that we are gonna be in trouble. It will be Alexander thinking up all the things to do, and he will be sending his brother Nicholas to do them all. It is soo funny how different the two of them are. Double trouble indeed!

Well it was this day, two years ago, that I was in labor with my two boys. After 15 weeks of strict bed rest, with 8 of those weeks in the hospital, they made their entry about 6 weeks early. Alexander arrived at 10:15pm and Nicholas arrived 10 minutes later at 10:25!

Our lives were changed forever, but I wouldn’t change it back for all the world. They have been such a joy and a blessing in my life!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEXANDER AND NICHOLAS!

The boys are growing leaps and bounds in their development, and more noticeably in their vocabulary. It was like all of a sudden they woke up talking! Their favorite thing to play now it I gotchu! It is so cute to watch because they come up to me and try and tickle me and say I GOTCHU mommy! I usually go after them and they just laugh and spit all over themselves. They get to laughing so much that eventually the only thing they can get out is I GOT before they take off running and laughing in between hiccups! LOL

Today Nicholas has a new word…it is Octopus! But he pronounces it Pot-o-puts hehe…so cute!