Sink Bath

Baby Cadence has discovered a love for the sink bath. It all started one night when I didn't feel like getting down on the ground to give her one in the bath tub.

She now wants one ALL the time. She doesn't really understand that she is getting too big to fit in the sink!

It's all good fun!

Lyric All Made Up

Miss Lyric decided she needed some makeup tonight. She did it all herself:-)

In case you are wondering, no one around here wears makeup that shade! But her markers sure did work well for her!

Pumpkin Patch

We have been waiting for the weather to cool off a little so we could walk down the road to a church selling pumpkins. It is finally starting to cool down a little, so we headed over this afternoon. Baby Cadence was chillin' in the wagon for the journey.

The girls set off to find the perfect pumpkins. They each picked a baby pumpkin and we got a big "family" pumpkin.

They each spent lots of time looking for just the one they wanted. Cadence carried around about 47 different pumpkins before she decided on one.

Story didn't have much to say in her quest. She was all business!

Miss Lyric just kept repeating, "I can't find one." As if 437 pumpkins aren't enough to choose from.

We HAD to take the annual picture in the pumpkins. It took a while to get the perfect shot:

getting everyone settled in for the shot,

they're all looking, but only one has a cute smile,

two girls and a pumpkin,

one down enough with the picture taking,

one down, one losing interest, one still going strong,

it was worth it!

As if they weren't tortured enough let's do a few on the hay bales. Story is thinking: Another picture, COOL! Cadence is thinking: Sit here, okay. Lyric is thinking: Are you kidding me? More pictures!

Yea, that went well:-)

Our pumpkin has cute little stickers for a face and band aids on his head, but the girls have informed us that there will be no carving this year! They don't want to cut 'Pumpkinee" open! I was a little disappointed at first because I wanted to try roasting the seeds. But, carving is always such a mess and the girls tend to lose interest about 10 minutes into it, so it's all good.

* FYI in case you didn't notice Story seems to have moved out of her 'NO PICTURES!' mode or maybe it was just this day. Only time will tell.

Baby Z Comes to Visit

Aunt Kristin had something to do this afternoon, so Baby Z came over for a visit. We played outside for a while and then went for a walk. After our walk, we were going to go in the house, but Zayden wasn't having it. That boy LOVES to be outside!

He sat in the John Deere for a long time and then the girls decided to give him a ride.

Lyric drove him first.

I'm not sure what he was telling me here, but he was sure happy!

He and Story were much more serious on their ride.

Cadence had a great time on her turn, but Mister Z seemed a bit worried about her driving abilities!

In this shot I think he is saying, "You do realize she is only six months older than me, should she really be driving this thing?"

As usual we had a great time babysitting!

September In Pictures

Can you believe what a horrible blogger I have been? I had 26 posts in August and this is only my sixth post for September! Sorry! It has been a pretty crazy month. We started off the month at the Rethinking Education Conference (which was GREAT!) in Dallas. Shortly after returning from Dallas we decided to move to Nashville. We have been putting a lot of energy into trying to figure out how to make that work. I will try to be a better blogger in October. For now let's get to September:

Rethinking Education:

We attended our first Unschooling Conference. I can so see this being a yearly event! We had a great time! I only took a handful of pictures, here is what I got:

They had one room dedicated to dress up. There were TONS of costumes in there! Lyric and Cadence both decided to try out these dinosaur costumes. They even wore them around the hotel and up to our room:-)

We spent lots of time in the dress up room. Cadence found a cool belt.

Lyric dressed as Belle. LOVE the wig! I think we all had a turn with that thing.

and that is why she has short hair, my friend:-)

This really was her idea. I have no idea why she looks so sad!

Story was NOT in the mood for pictures, so any shot you see of here was totally taken without permission. Shh, don't tell her.

Cadence found this awesome fireman's jacket. They couldn't find a fireman's hat, so they improvised. Hey, it's red.

Another cool hat!

Not real sure what she was being here?

Cadence found some house shoes that she fell in love with! She even wore them to supper!

The girls found a hill behind the hotel to run down. We had a picnic pizza supper out there one night.

We did some swimming . This day Cadence REFUSED to take her floaty off! We had to carry her up to the room (not easy to do in that floaty) and then she had a bath with it on.

While at the conference Baby Cadence celebrated her second birthday. Grammy brought cupcakes and her new tricycle.

Of course, she had to try it out in the hallway.

She decided pushing was easier than riding.

Cupcakes, YUM!

We had an amazing time at the conference! I wish I had taken more pictures, maybe next year.

Some of the other fun things we did this month:

the girls played dress up,

Story Bell learned to sew with the machine,

the girls found a couple of new places to play,

(they discovered their drawers would make nice little beds, but apparently the drawers aren't made to hold that much weight... Daddy will be making a trip to Home Depot and they won't be doing this again)

we found a little frog,

(we kept for a couple of hours, gave him a rubber ducky for a friend, tried to feed him a grasshopper and then set him free)

Baby Cadence thought she could go pantless.

the girls and I were going out somewhere, probably Target. They went out to wait for me. When I came out I saw Cadence had no pants on and when I asked her were her pants were she just looked at me like I was crazy.

That's pretty much September in a nutshell. I will do better in October, promise!