Fall Harvest Party

Our homeschool co-op had a fall party, and Abbey was brave enough to try out bobbing for apples.  She got one, too!

We got a family photo too, all except Luke, who was asleep.

Happy Halloween!

We let the children dress up this year for Halloween, for a community event.  Abbey was a fairy princess, Ethan a knight, and Isaac a lion (complete with realistic roar!).

Abbey was very proud of her fairy wings.

Indian summer

We've had some gorgeous fall weather this year, including one day of Indian summer.

Fall colors on the way to the "new playground"

We went for a long walk this afternoon, checking out the fall colors.



Our destination: the playground at Mauck School (the "new playground" as Abigail calls it, because Bailey School is much closer and therefore we don't visit Mauck very often).


The first time we visited, she was scared to try this monkey ladder, but this time she went up it six or seven times.


Ethan slept through most of this playground trip, but he woke up towards the end.


The twisty slide! I don't recommend it for adults: too much static electricity on those plastic slides.

On a late fall day, (November 14), Abbey was helping Debbie do the gardening:



Ethan was observing:

Playing in the leaves

Debbie took her outside today, to play in the leaves and get some Vitamin D.