September...

So much for updating this thing in the last month!  We've had a very busy end of August/September: finishing out summer with friends, starting new schools, celebrating birthdays, playing with friends, playing with family, and trying to enjoy every day!

our last baby play-date of the summer..there's not too many babies anymore!

Tucker is "exploring his creativity" with many of his choices lately...this was when we put every pair of shorts on that he owns after his nap one day.

This was another morning...where he put all of his stuffed animals and a bunch of stuff from the guest room at the top of the stairs..while he waited for the rest of the family to wake up.

On our last day off for the summer, I took Tucker on a special fun day with me since we aren't going to get to spend as much time together for awhile. He has school three days a week now and some other things so we only get to hang one or two mornings now. So we spent the day at the Maritime Aquarium!

He had fun touching the jellyfish.

Feeding the birds...

...this happened..to me...a lot!

He loved all of the different snakes!

And the sharks!

And he had earned a prize for something so we got an extra special treat, a baby shark!

 We capped our day off with his first IMAX... on sharks!

We became slightly obsessed with the Black Rock Farmer's Market and the donuts that Whisk & Brush sells...delish!

Celebrating McKenna's birthday with a Frozen party. One of Tucker's favorite summer movies!

We also celebrated Max's birthday with none other than a watermelon roll!

The end of an era...or at least half a century...my grandparents sold their house:(

Tucker has become a pro at riding his bike! So proud of him for not giving up when it was hard.

Tucker had his first day of school at his new pre-school! It's safe to say he LOVES it! He barely says bye to us now (just goes right in and puts his backpack in his cubby and sits on his name-square). On the first day parents had to stay and half way through he turns to me and says, "Mom, can you go away from me please? Like can you go back to home?" I'm really feeling the love buddy, thanks!

This guy loves to play outside...he tries to keep up with Tucker on his bike:)

 These two can wrestle and fight with the best of them (thankfully not too often), but they love each other deeply and have blast playing with each other now too. We are so thankful:)

Enjoying every last minute of summer...with popsicles and some of our best buds:)

Neighborhood puddle jumping/mud fights in the rain

I finally discovered how easy it is to pop popcorn on the stove! And the kids have discovered how much they like it this way.

Entertaining ourselves while Daddy was away for the weekend...thousands of motorcycles riding for the Freedom Ride, in honor of September 11th.

With Tucker at school on Mondays while I'm home, I've been getting to spend some quality time with B...we've mostly been going to My Gym:)

Our church had this really fun food truck festival with a bunch of bands, a bounce house, a candy table, and this awesome Photo Booth:)

 A rare moment of calm, attentive sensory play. Lasted at least 30 min! A small miracle.

Our fave kind of Friday nights...dinner with the Gombos's!

Tucker started U-4 Soccer...it's cute. Mostly just fun skill games, but cute:)

We celebrated Annie's birthday last weekend! The boys had fun playing with their cousins.

We also did the Walk to End Alzheimers with our dear friends and neighbors. It was a very cool event to be a part of in honor of their mom/grandma.

And we will end with this...Max has been off all week so the boys have enjoyed many-a-ridiculous-mornings...with cornholio dance parties and the like:)

Hopefully more frequent updates to come...