Yesterday, Buddy learned to roll over!! Last night, I put him down on his activity mat and it took him about three seconds to roll onto his belly. This morning it took him a little longer to remember how it’s done. I’ve yet to see him roll back onto his back and he generally gets frustrated trying. But what a novelty to get to choose tummy time! Pretty great, this new trick.

Penelope

Clara

Carys

Not the best first Giants season for Buddy.  Little Cruuuzzz….Waiting on Aunt Katie to get back and teach Bud how to salsa.

Buddy went to the pumpkin patch a couple of weeks ago with Uncle Jake and Aunt Kristen.  It was the silliest pumpkin patch.  You paid $12 each for a hay ride with no hay that took you through an overgrown, oversized vegetable garden of a farm to get to the pre-cut pumpkins on the ground surrounded by wooden cut-outs.  Still…we managed to have a great time and enjoy some quality cider and apple cider donuts.

Pre-pumpkin patch flying high superbud’s premier…

Park a couple of miles from home.  Gorgeous day!

With his Superdad!

Somebody is doing a lot of talking these days. I don’t know what I expected Bud to sound like when learning to talk, but since people call it cooing, these noises are a wee bit, shall we say…perplexing. Still, it makes my heart so happy to hear his little self trying to talk to us!

So, Bud isn’t sleeping too well these days. He’s up 2-3 times a night, which is completely exhausting. But it does mean that during the day, he sometimes falls asleep while being held, and these moments are completely precious…

We visited the apple orchard in Warwick this weekend. We enjoyed the apple blossoms, the local ice cream, and apple picking. The scenery was gorgeous, though peak has come and gone. And it was great to give Mom and Dad a flavor for the area of the country we call home. It’s beautiful here, and it was a treat to get to show off our fall colors and tasty apples.

Apple picking was a riot. We were on a search for Romes but never found them; we debated the hardness and tartness of apples, resulting in many taste experiments; we climbed the trees, against the rules…okay, so I just climbed the trees; we tried to knock down the perfect apples that were too high to pick; we leveraged our giant Eric for help on some of the tall ones. All for the perfect apples…to make the perfect apple pie…which we never made…birthday cake instead 🙂

Well, Bud has never had such a grand time as with his Meme this weekend. She is so silly and made him giggle all weekend. These videos don’t capture the half of it but they’re a flavor. Meme is so great with Buddy, and he would just smile and giggle and giggle and smile. So precious. Makes me grateful this silly lady is my mom and did these things with me as a baby…