better late than never...

We had a party last weekend. A “Celebrate Fall” party-with chili, home-made mac & cheese, corn bread, apple-pecan-gorganzola salad and cranberry-apple crisp (so YUMMY-thanks Elise)! It was so much fun! I LOVE hosting parties and can’t believe that it has taken over a year in our new house to throw one! The BIGGEST reason for the delay is simple logistics-where would everyone go?? Our townhouse is a bit over 1000 square feet and with two adults, two kids and one wild and crazy dog-pretty much every square inch is spoken for. As mentioned before (actually all the time) Adam has little to NO FREE TIME. But when he did have a nice break at the end of the summer, (the last for nearly a year) he set to work on what we consider THE BEST THING EVER! With a weekend of hard labor and high temperatures (and some contracted help) we extended our living space nearly 600 square feet! The kids love it! We love it! The dog is warming to the idea…and the mosquitoes love it so much they won’t leave!

PS
Carl was not invited to the party-thank goodness for Camp Bow Wow!

My Girl

It has been a BIG month for Isla! Early in September she sat up alone and had her first taste of real food-pears. She has not been much of an eater though-a little here a little there-she definitely prefers nursing. Looks like I am destine for another baby who can "ask for it." Being a second baby-she has made things pretty easy for me-record keeping wise-since (because she is the second after all) the baby book has yet to be bought. She sat up and ate for the first time on the same day (09/05), a few weeks later (09/12) she crawled and stood up alone!!! We couldn't believe it either-at less than 6 months old! I'm not sure what to credit (or blame) the fact that she is a girl and well, we are a more advanced specimen, or that she is a second child. Either way, I have got my hands full-and lovin every minute of it!

PS
Adam wanted me to add that she has her lower central incisors (two bottom teeth):)

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