Let's Backtrack a Little

It's Fall and we've been taking great advantage of the beautiful Chicago weather-no, I'm not kidding-and the fun events around the area. The first week of October, our friends Halley, Josh and little Elle came to stay with us. We had so much fun together, but the kids enjoyed themselves even more. Although Fishie is used to playing in the living room by himself, he loved having a friend to share his toys with!

The next day we went to Farm in the Zoo in Lincoln Park to hang out in the pumpkin patch. Jeff, Sissy and Danni Kaplan met us there too.

A few weeks later, our playgroup met at the Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago to see the Halloween show that the city puts on every year. Some of the kids wore costumes-Fish was a scary skeleton that day! We went to Grandpa Richie's office to trick or treat before the show and Daddy's office afterward.

In the middle of October, Fish took his very first plane trip to Portland, Maine to see his cousin Reece, Aunt Sarah and Uncle Jonathan and go to Emily and Stanley's wedding. Mommy and Fish were making funny faces at the airport on the way there. Fish was a terrific passenger but they didn't give him any wings-we assume they were worried about what kind of on-board trouble a baby would cause with sharp edges. Will the racial profiling ever stop?

Fish was also lucky enough to have his first out-of-town sleep-over at his Aunt and Uncle's house on the night of the wedding. He came home a very happy little boy because Reece shared all of her toys...even her exercauser!

The entire trip to Maine was so much fun! We got to spend time with friends and family-there's nothing better than that! We can't wait for the Grevens trip to Chicago in November. In the meantime, with Halloween only one week away, we spent last weekend getting all of our decorations up. That meant a trip to a farm to scout out the pumpkin patch for the biggest and best pumpkins we could find. Grandpa Richie joined us for the day-it was really windy and cold, but we had fun anyway!

On Tuesday of this week, we had a costume party at Fishie's Wiggleworms music class. Fish went as Humpty Dumpty and Noni Laurie came downtown to hang out and sing songs.

You can see Fish's friends Ethan-the turtle, Liv-the chick, and Henry-the puppy in some of these photos. His friend Caroline was a pumpkin and Kyle was Superman. Although everyone was dressed up, they didn't know they were anything but babies.

It has been an awesome month filled with activities, friends, family and fun! Our pumpkins are outside waiting to greet trick or treaters on Friday along with a big bowl of candy. Happy October!