GrandDad's goats

The girls should have known better than to fall asleep during the rolling country drive to GrandDad's house. Among the wonderful things that awaited (in addition to GrandDad and a giant dinner): Chuck and Heidi (the pygmy goats) and Uncle Todd.

Don't forget Australia

Obligatory picture of baby with pumpkins

Taken at Baugher's in Westminster, MD.

Help! I'm lodged under the ottoman

kunstfest

The New Harmony Kunstfest started off well enough with a diaper change in the trunk:

Vi did not appreciate being posed as a giant zucchini, however.

Frolicking among historic buildings was a hit for the small ones! Luca must be running off somewhere ...

This was Aviva's reaction to Paul Tillich's gravesite. It IS surprising to see it in southwestern Indiana.

And the inevitable apple dumpling. Must practice for the fall festival ...

I hate the mosquitoes

... because Vivi can't spend as much time in the backyard/patio as she should. She LOVES eating, I mean playing with, leaves. Such a sporty girl.



We have hardly been out in the backyard since early June, around the time L broke her arm in fact! They are horrible. I decided to spray us all one day a few weeks ago but it didn't really help. Mysteriously, they don't bite me this year, but everyone else suffered greatly.



The Jerusalem artichokes are THIS BIG. They bloomed and are beautiful! I totally didn't expect that the most successful crop of all would result from those sad, ginger-looking bits in a plastic bag that Mollie picked up for free from the co-op last year. We're still getting peppers, some sad tomatoes, and basil (which is tasting sort of bitter by now) but the sunchokes are triumphant.

Welcome, October

My blogging delinquency is disgraceful. And I don't even have the excuse that I am uploading photos to Facebook! It's been busy here, but in a weird, sort of isolating way. The weekdays are all about the same: I go to work and Lilah goes to school, and M and A hit the library storytimes, grocery store, playgrounds, museums, playdates, etc. Then we come home and try to make it through the evening hours. I can occasionally get work done in the evening after Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It's getting darker earlier and earlier these days and it's COLD at night, which is a bit depressing. But October is a favorite month as I love all things orange like pumpkins and apple cider (sort of orange) and circus peanuts and living room paint. And the Fall Festival begins next week!!! And then we're off to Maryland to finally meet cousin James over fall break!

Here the pirate has apparently just eaten. Probably hummus.



In an attempt to get through one particular early evening, we crossed that money savin' bridge to Henderson, KY. I went to Simons to look for shoes that fit my orthotics (no success). I'm all about comfortable footwear these days. Anyway, this is an amusing photo that Lilah took. Looks like Menachem has gone fishin' (just thinking about Kentucky makes me drop my final g's).



Everyone loves a swing.

The babe is not yet crawling, but she gets around. She loves to eat grass and dirt and pick up tiny objects off the floor/ground.