Fast Friends

Have you ever made a friend in about five minutes that becomes such a good close friend that you can pick up where you left off after a long time - like seven years?  After you've both had two new jobs, both gotten married, one had kids and still just one day meet up again and are just as close as you were?

Lucky for me Lisa is one of those friends.  We bonded over a drug test for our first job (when instead of peeing in a cup like any normal drug test they cut our hair - like a huge chunk down at the roots). Finding each other's bald spot and assuring one another you really couldn't see it was what started a beautiful friendship.  Randomly after 7 years fate brought us both to Ohio on a weekend in September less than 2 hours away and we met up again.  Little E loved her as much as I do immediately (kid is a good judge of character like his grand pops I guess).  

And after our fun weekend visit in Ohio we decided if we had the chance we would meet up again (not in another 7 years).  Well shortly after Lisa had a chance to come to Greenville (a few hours away) w her husband and they came and stayed for the weekend.  It was great to get to meet Carlos and for Eric to spend time with them too.  Little e LOVED Carlos.  I mean adored him.  Wanted to sit in his lap and have him hold him all the time.  It was so precious.

We really had a great time with them all weekend and maybe we'll get to Texas sometime or if they move to Ohio we'll get a chance to see them when we come home for visits.  Really great friends are super precious and I'm very thankful for the special fun weekends we got to spend with Lisa and Carlos recently.

Lunch Date

I think a lot of people have ideas in their head of what a stay at home mom does (or doesn't do).  I won't go into a long list of that (right now). However, the other day I was having lunch (which consisted of a flat soda and some stale rice cakes  - and a pretty fantastic chicken salad sandwich) but it wasn't the lunch of kings I used to eat out everyday when I worked (and I had disposable income).

It got me thinking just a little bit about how looking past the lunch menu to the little face behind it with the fall sunlight beaming in the kitchen through the gorgeous yellow trees in the backyard that I have the best job in the world and I wouldn't trade my lunch date for anything.

10 months

Well I did a six month update, then a three month update and now I'm only a week or two late from a MONTHLY update!  Woo-hoo!  Progress...
Little e at 10 months is a lot of fun (and starting to be a lot of work too).  He is crawling, pulling up, doing a small amount of 'cruising' and ALOT of talking (yes mom, I know where he gets that from...)  He added 'duck' to his vocabulary and started making car noises when he runs his cars around (melts my heart!)   Each month it gets a little harder to capture his picture sitting down in the big white chair.  This is what you see - ahhh, sweet adorable little 10 month picture in his chair...

...and this is what you don't see...

pulling up crawling to the table

reading said books off the table - then proceeding to throw them all on the floor

and the ever popular 'biting the foot thats trying to hold you on the chair' lol

And that is what it REALLY looks like to get those sweet pictures.  I think its sorta fun to see the outtakes because it shows his personality :)

Pumpkin Patch

A few weekends ago we visited the 'pumpkin' patch or as close as we have here in Augusta at Sneed's Dairy Farm.  The kids got to jump on an inflatable pillow embedded in the ground (pretty cool actually).

Jenny and Jocelyn

Eric and e on the jumping pillow

We also played on the swings, looked at the animals and took a 'carriage ride.'  Our passes bought us a trip or two through the corn maze but everyone figured getting lost in a maze with tiny kiddos might be a bad idea so we passed. 

All in all we had a lot of fun with our pumpkin and his good friends (as always!)

What fun things have you been doing this Fall?