some of September

Ari has officially started playing a sport. I will use the term "playing" loosely for now. His first game started off well, then I think he was really overwhelmed with the number of kids swarming the ball. Some tears were shed and by the end of the game he was determined not to play soccer again.

Here Ari is explaining to his buddy that he's not supposed to pick up the ball. This was practice before the game.

After his first game we got a pizza and picnicked at the park.

Wee!

Last week we had the opportunity to go pick some apples at someone's house. Evangeline and Ari stood around eating them while we worked hard gathering all that was left.

It might take a lot of time to make applesauce and apple butter from scratch, but it is totally worth it! You really can't beat free apples.

For Ari's second soccer game we had a little incentive to get him to participate the whole game. He has wanted to go get a donut from the donut shop (something he's never done), so we figured this might be a good incentive to get him to play the whole game.

Even though he stood in the same spot practically the whole game, he at least stayed on the field the whole time. I think most of our photos are of him exactly like this with all the other kids running around him. We are just working on progress for now :) Maybe next game he will guard a different area of the field.

As usual Evangeline is putting anything and everything she can find on her head. This is a baby doll's dress.

She is so stinkin' cute.

AJ took Monday off so we took advantage of the nice cooler weather and camped out in the backyard Sunday night.

Then Monday we went to the zoo. The weather was at least 20 degrees cooler than the last time we went so it was nice to not feel rushed so we could get out of the heat. There weren't large crowds of people and lots of animals were active.

This little girl seemed more interested in the animals this time around. AJ and I both agreed that we can add a new word to her vocabulary. Nearly ever animal left her saying "wow!"

For some reason Ari wasn't in to watching the dolphin show so we left before it was over to go see some other animals.

It was a fun day off together since our weekends have been so busy. October isn't going to be less busy, we just have more fun things planned. Hooray for fall!