Move over Nana, i'm eatin' my daily avocado too!

A curiosity of this strange fruit began a few weeks ago.

Things have gotten a little messier since........

I've begun making baby food. First I started with baking and pureeing the giant pumpkin from my garden. It was much too thick to carve for Halloween! The refrigerator and freezer are both inundated with cooked pumpkin. Today I moved on to avocado and sweet potato. So far Finn has sampled the avocado and it was an instant hit.

Another weekend of painting..........
Last night we moved everything out of the bedroom and began prepping again. Unfortunately, much of the work falls on Chris (since babies and paint fumes don't mix) but I have been popping in to help cut in trim while Finn naps. It looks like we're on track to finish up tomorrow.

Finn's First Halloween

Not sure what this turned out to be...cat or bat?

Hudson picking out a good fresh one.

Erika & Finn

Water's nice n' toasty.

Happy Halloween!

Some random, hyper Halloween dog pics from Flickr...enjoy.

Super dog

Yodog

????

A Day off to Relax

It was so nice to take some time to relax as a family in the park yesterday, after spending much of the weekend working on the house. It was a perfect day for shuffling our feet through fallen leaves on the sidewalk and lying in the grass amongst the crisp layer of golden yellows and browns.

Finn is now sitting upright in his stroller without the car seat adapter. I think he loves being able to look ahead to take in all the scenery. There is just so much to see in this big world!

Living Room 3.0

OK, so our living room was pretty bad: cracked plaster,
dirty-brown tinted yellow walls and ceiling(!). So this
last weekend we finally took charge and patched, primed,
and painted...either I'm getting less picky or more
efficient because we finished by sundown on Sunday.

Hudson admiring the mess - move-in day 9.2006

Wish that ceiling was just 2" higher.

Done...only a year or so later (10.2007). No more coal soot (finally)!

Now on to the bedroom (someday)...