Fall Fun

I love fall.  The weather here has been glorious the past few weeks and we are enjoying all the fun things there are to do this time of year.  We picked  a bushel of apples at the apple orchard- a triple whammy- 1)it's a fun activity 2)the apples taste incredible 3)the kids love eating them when they know they've picked them!

 We've made lots of zoo trips

 and been to fun festivals like this Monarch Festival

and watched and played a lot of football!  Down, set, hike!

 There he goes with the ball,

 and shortly thereafter got his flag pulled.  But the first game he did manage to score a touchdown!  We had told him beforehand to keep running until they blew the whistle, and he did- the ref had to chase him down ha ha.

Fall- please stay around for awhile longer!

Sadie's Surgery

Sadie had her eye surgery last Friday, and it was a better experience than I could have hoped for.  Here she is pre surgery with her glasses 

 and without glasses.  Her eyes were definitely getting pretty bad.

 We had to check in for her surgery at 7 am in Indy, so we stayed in a hotel the night before (Josh took a personal day and his mom came to stay with the older two).  Here we are waiting for them to take her back, I think she enjoyed all the alone time with mom and dad!

 She came out of the anesthesia crying of course, but calmed down pretty quickly and fell back asleep and slept pretty much the whole ride home.  Her eyes were pretty sad looking, but they didn't really seem to bother her at all which was great because they had warned us to try to keep her from rubbing them.

 We stopped and got her some popsicles, and saw Grandma had taken Marissa to the park as we drove past on our way home and so we stopped and she downed two popsicles and then wanted to go play!  Needless to say she recovered very quickly, and stuffed her face to make up for not getting to eat that morning.

 The doctor said to try her without her glasses for the time being, and that we will see what our next move will be when she comes back for her second post op appointment in 6 weeks.  I don't think her eyes are perfectly straight but they look leaps and bounds better than before so that is good news.  We sure love this cutie, glasses or not, straight eyes or not!

Schoolgirl Marissa

Marissa has been SO excited to start preschool and patiently waited for a few weeks of Shane being in school until it was her turn.  I had to document her big day, but you never know what you're going to get when you ask her to smile...

But her natural smile showed up when we got to her school.

 She didn't quite understand what I meant when I told her to take a picture with her teacher, but oh well.

 She loves every minute of the preschool experience- and we have played "circle time" at home many times since.  And Sadie and I now have 2 mornings a week to ourselves, which is weird at first, but fun.  When we pulled up to the house, Sadie pointed to Marissa's seat as if to say, "where is she?"  We got inside and I asked her what she wanted to do and she went right over and got Chutes and Ladders out.  She got to hold each guy and have the board on her lap while spinning the spinner without anyone telling her to stop.  Those are the things 1 year old dreams are made of!