Fall in Full Swing

Suddenly, its late October, with snow in the forecast for Sunday--how did that happen? Just a few weeks ago we could wear short sleeves:


And now, I find myself needing to knit an earflap hat for Simon, because its too cold to go outside without a hat on (and he takes off all hats that don't tie beneath his chin)!

We have been quite busy, with an impromptu trip up north to visit Andy's grandparents, a weekend-long course for Andy (this weekend), a fellowship application for Jess (due in less than two weeks), and so on. So busy that I haven't had time to download photos. But I did find this video from about a month ago that I meant to post, but never got around to. Simon is just starting to imitate things we do--just this week he started doing signs for "more" and "all done" when he's eating. (We thought for the past couple weeks he might have been trying them, but it was always too hard to tell if he was trying to say "all done" or just flailing because he wanted out of the highchair. For the past couple of days, though, he's gotten more and more consistent--he even did a "more" sign in a non-highchair context today!) Anyhow, back to the video: showing him to hit things to make noise (turn buckets upside down like drums, etc.) was one of the first ways we saw him intentionally imitating us, as shown here with Andy.

Tap tap tap (41 seconds):



Also, in case anyone was wondering who this family supports (though if you know us enough to know about our blog, you probably don't wonder)...

Note: Sadly, this sign was stolen just a couple days after this picture; but we eventually got another one to replace it.