falling for fall

emma posing proudly with her aquadots that nana hoover sent her as a congratulatory gift for pooping on the potty.




The Hoovers met up with the Murphys again for a fall afternoon at the AppleBarn. Today VINS was there with a bunch of raptors. The presentation was a little over will and emma's head, but they enjoyed seeing the birds and getting to touch the various claws and wings they brought.



The highlight for them was playing in and climbing on the replica of a red covered bridge








emma and will are great friends and they play so nicely together. emma also loves will's 9 month old brother, james.






the plan was to go apple picking, but the apple barn was really encouraging folks to pick the strawberries, as there were still tons, thanks to the warm weather that has been gracing the area. will and em had a blast picking ( and eating) the berries. tonight we'll make strawberry shortcake. yum!






emma is learning lots of new things at preschool and comes home every night singing a new song. the latest song she is singing is a song about a creepy spider...and she sings it with an english accent. heh.

sharing her snack with wilbur boy and her two teddies.

on saturday afternoon, we headed out to the garden to harvest our pumpkins. emma had very little interest in this activity and headed back indoors, telling us she'd be out in "just a minute". when we came in to check on her, we found her using her play makeup kit...and had makeup EVERYWHERE, as seen below:

when we told emma she looked beautiful, she responded, " i know. i'm as beautiful as an astronaut."

a few of the many pumpkins we grew in our garden this year


kyle picked these two carrots from out garden that had grown together...looks like they're in love. :)