Fall Pins

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With fall starting up there has been an influx of great fall décor ideas and with that come yummy fall food. That would be mostly desserts. And a lovely article on MSNBC covered the top 10 fall foods that will add to your waistline. A few of them being pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, creamy soups and lasagna. Stuff that gets eaten A LOT over the course of the fall and even into winter.  Here are a few of the things that have caught my eye for me to do this fall.

 Fall Dessert

(clockwise from top left- Pumpkin Layer Cake, Apple Pie Bread, Pumpkin Bread with Salted Caramel Drizzle, Apple Cider Caramel Cookies, Apple Brie Melts, Spiced Spice Kisses, Baked Apple with Cinnamon Streusel)

Harvest Pumpkin Soup

Leap Painting, Acorn Center pieces, Acorn Wreath

 

Things to do with the Family.

Happy Birthday Seth!

This year Seth’s birthday fell on Yom Kippur. Not the greatest way to celebrate your birthday by having to fast all day long. Well with him still being on meds for his strep we figured that we would just take a pass this year.  I’m sure that everyone will be understanding. We did manage to get to temple this year. We did not go last year because one of the kids was not feeling the greatest. I think it was Aiden.  They were both great at not being loud and disruptive. Toward the end Rebecca started to get a little unruly, but that was because 1.) she was tired and 2.) it was pretty much her lunch time as well.  In the end they both made it 1:45 of temple. Not a bad day.  We picked up a few things for dinner for later on our way home and in for a nap she went.

About 4pm Seth’s parents and his brother and family came over to break the fast. It was a good time. Good food. The kids played together. Rebecca liked that we put her at the kids table to eat with Aiden and my niece Naomi. She felt like a big girl, but in the end she ended up back in her booster seat sitting at the big table with all of us. She eats better that way, but she’ll learn. I got Seth a carrot from White’s Bakery. I love their cakes. Always so good and very fresh. Moist, never dried out. Seth loves carrot cake so I figured get him a cake that he likes and I’ll pick up something small for the kids to have.  We were also going to have apple pie that his brother made.  It was a long day, but a good day. Here’s to another year.

 Ready for Temple.

 Yummy cake!

 Make a wish!

 Rebecca enjoying some carrot cake

 Playing the elephant game, but we need to exchange it for anew one since the motor is pretty well shot, out of the box.

Edaville Railroad

This past weekend was a little crazy in our house. Seth was sick and while I really should have been resting myself there were things that needed to be done and the kids don’t slow down for under the weather parents. Plus if the kids were out of the house then that meant that Seth could get the rest that he needed. Which only worked so much and he ended up just going to the hospital to find out that he had strep. Once he had the meds that he needed he started to feel better on Sunday.

Saturday Aiden had soccer practice so I had to figure out how to manage to help him retain what the coach was teaching and keep Rebecca entertained as well. Aiden was really understanding of the fact that I was limited on what I could help him with and Rebecca did pretty well. The last half of practice she was pretty content to sit in the stroller with a snack. Afterwards we grabbed some lunch from Dunks. Aiden wanted and egg and cheese wrap so Rebecca ate one as well. What brother has, she wants too. Once home they both went up for naps. Well Rebecca napped and I was supposed to be catching up some blog posts and resting a bit as well. Aiden he had other plans and we ended up not napping even though he was tired. 

So battling myself with the nap notion. I wanted Rebecca to nap for as long as possible, but I had also told Aiden that we would go to the touch-a-truck show that was in Hanover. I’ve been trying to take him to one of these stupid things for the better part of a year and so far no dice. We either have something already planned for that day or its right in the middle of naptime. Either way something is always a hindrance and we haven’t gone. And yet again we left later then I wanted to because I knew that Rebecca needed to nap. I was not about to drive 30-45mins to a car show to only be able to stay for 30mins so I had to break the news to Aiden that we would not make it to the show. So I made the quick decision to head to Edaville Railroad instead. They have the train ride and other kid rides as well. He had a blast there and since the last time that we were there, some new rides were added. Sunday was a better day.

Sand Play

Probably one of the last few times that we will be able to play in the sand. I think we have about a month left of decent weather that we’ll be able to use the sand box, which looks pretty small when you add two kids into it. And yes while Rebecca loves to play in the sand she can stand the stuff touching her feet so she threw a nutty until we put her socks back on.

 Peek a boo!!

 "NO SAND ON MY FEET!!!"

 Dumping sand on each other.

Play time was over as soon as they started to dump sand over teach other heads. We need a bigger turtle.