September is a wonderful month

I don't know why September is a wonderful month probably because it is officially FALL! Fall is my favorite season. I love the leaves changing colors, the cool air in the morning, and pumpkin anything. I think I started loving pumpkin bread when I was a young teenager. My mom would make it in tiny loaves and put them in our lunches for school. I love love LOVE pumpkin anything! I am a little afraid to try pumpkin egg nog though. I love egg nog too.

September 4th- Auntie Briar came to visit for 10 days. One night B and Grumpa had a bonfire at their house per request of Briar. It was really big and hot. Oliver loves looking at fire and so this was Christmas to him. He kept saying, "wow!" It was cute and I am also kind of concerned with his interest in fire. Some mornings he wants to light up matches. At first I allowed it and now I don't because we need those matches. Anyway, at the bonfire they served hot dogs with chips, marshmallows(one of O's favorites), and watermelon (another one of O's favorites). In fact Oliver is in love with watermelon. He could eat a whole one if I let him. Seriously, he eats slice after slice after slice. Well before we left the bonfire to go home Oliver was still eating a watermelon, more like the rind. Daddy took it from him and threw it into the fire. Oliver DID NOT like that action and teared up and then started crying. My heart strings were being pulled and so we went inside to get him another piece. Actually, we sat down in front of the watermelon tray and he ate a few slices. We took one for the ride home. He was comforted and content after that.

-O says, "tissures" for scriptures

8th- Oliver got transferred to a big boy bed! YAY! His reaction was priceless. He watched daddy take apart his crib and put together the toddler bed. Oliver loves working with daddy on these kind of projects. When he realized his new bed was done and that it was his. He clapped for joy and ran to his new bed a laid in it. He rolled around in it for a bit and would get in and out of his bed. You could say he was enjoying his new found freedom. Oliver also climbed up the headboard of the bed and did a little flip off of it onto the bed. It was cute to see his excitement. That first night in his big boy bed he only woke up once. We were surprised. He almost slept the entire night in it. A month later he now sleeps the entire night in his bed and takes naps in it too.

9th-This is the first morning that Oliver got to experience getting himself out of his own bed. I remember when he was first born Quentin and I would talk about the future and the things we are looking forward to. Well one of the things we talked about was our kids waking up and coming to our room and bouncing on us begging us to wake up. This morning we got to experience that. Oliver came to my side of the bed, put a car on my face and then caressed my cheek ever so softly I woke up smiling. When I opened my eyes he had a HUGE smile on his face. I think it is safe to say that he loves his freedom. We don't close the door all the way because we don't want him to feel like he is trapped in his room. Lately he wakes me up by opening my eyelid and saying, " Ake up! Ake up! Noman?" He got that off of the movie Frozen. Noman mean snowman and he is trying to wake me up because that is how Anna woke up Elsa when they were little kids. I find it so cute and funny.

-Oliver has been learning a new word everyday. One day I taught him the word, squeeze, and then proceeded to squeeze him. He laughed! He repeated back to me the word and I laughed because of the way he says it. Whenever he wants to be squeezed he comes up to me or daddy, holds his arms up and says, "Queez!" It is adorable to see him grow and learn his personality. I think that I have learned that his love language is physical touch.

-Oliver has learned to make bubbles with his mouth and will literally sit in one place for half an hour just blowing bubbles with his mouth. He leaves a load full of drool on his shirt, face, and wherever he is sitting which is usually the couch or the floor. Big wet spots were had.

20th- Oliver and daddy go to the dump together for some man time dropping our trash and recyclables off. I gave O a hug and kiss and told him to have fun. He looks at me and says very clearly, "Have fun!" I was so surprised and proud.

Oliver LOVES saying prayers. Well he doesn't actually say the prayer. He mostly folds his arms, comes to us and asks for us to say a prayer. Sometimes we say 3 meal prayers or until he is satisfied that we have talked to God. He will randomly stop playing, reading, or doing whatever he is doing and fold his arms and ask for a prayer. I remember one time we were playing outside throwing rocks into the stream and he suddenly stopped. He turned to me, arms folded, and asked for a prayer. I said the prayer thanking God for this beautiful earth and the joys that it gives us. Afterwards he gave me a kiss and started throwing rocks into the stream again. I love his tender spirit.

-Says 4 as, "ahch" I have not idea why.

After dinner, Q washed O's hands and he runs to me saying, "Hey mom! Hey mom!" It melted my soul and my heart rejoiced. I love hearing him call me mom.

PICTURE TIME!:

So I went through the pictures and was surprised that we didn't take a lot of pictures in September. I guess we were either busy, lazy, or just forgot to take pictures of our awesome moments. But there are some pictures worth putting on here so here ya go.

This is from Quentin's hike on Table Rock.

Except this time these pictures are in the fall.

Beautiful.

Fall is my favorite season and I love living in New Hampshire at this time of the year.

Asa trying to whistle in the wind.

My, um, husband, doing something.

My handsome man.

Before all his hikes I tell him to be careful and he says he will. Then he takes pictures like this and shows them to me. He likes to give me a fright. He is right on the edge by the way and there is a drop off on just RIGHT there.

Oliver likes rocks,

and sticks.

I love his profile.

And the faces he makes. He makes me giggle.

Observing daddy and Uncle Asa.

Look at those chubby cheeks and beautiful eyes.

Brothers.

Daddy being cool.

Oliver splashed himself in the face haha

Uncle Asa creeping on daddy.

Thoughtful brothers.

And manly brothers.

Oliver found a big stick.

This is at Quentin's parent's place.

Beautiful autumn leaves.

I seriously love their land. I love coming here and relaxing. Oliver does too.

My handsome little man. 

August the month of nature, anniversary, and fun times.

Almost caught up y'all!

In August we found out our baby number two is a GIRL! YAY!

Again all I have are notes and not a very good memory. So I'll just go ahead with the notes:

Uncle Asa is home on his off semester. Asa comes over to our house every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday night for dinner and computer programming stuff with Quentin. When Asa was first coming over O didn't know what to think of him because he kind of looked like daddy. One night we were going through names. O points to me," MOM!" Points to Q, "dad" and then points to Uncle Asa and says, "Someone". It was hilarious.

8/19th- Oliver woke up later than usual. He woke up at 9:40 in the morning. I thought he wasn't breathing for a while and was worried about him. Q told me that he was fine and to let him sleep.

-Oliver has been into chasing flies around the house. When they land and he swaps at them and they fly away he laughs and laughs. He thinks it is funny I guess. I think it is fun to watch him and see the pure joy he gets. I love feeling that pure joy watching him be a kid and enjoying the simple things in life.

8/30- Pulled pretend food out of his play cube and gave it to me to eat.

Oliver is learning a new word everyday. He loves the word squeeze. I love hearing him say, "I stuck" and then tries to wriggle out of where ever he is stuck, usually his booster seat at the kitchen table. He is really wanting to talk and say words. I love hearing his attempts. Today (October 1st) he learned the word bat and said it perfectly.

-When O wants to go outside, eat something, or wants something, he takes my hand and pulls on it signaling that he wants me to get up and follow him to meet his desires. He uses the word please to get what he wants. Somethings I say no to and he says please louder and louder and then tears up a little. Sometimes I break down and get him the thing he wants because he is just so adorable.

-Quentin and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary. It seems like it has been longer. This year we decided we wouldn't buy each other gifts but buy ourselves a gift, one that we both want. We bought train tickets up Mount Washington to celebrate. It was an eventful day and towards the end I remember not feeling well, stinkin' pregnancy.

That is all I have in my notes. Now onto pictures! My computer is doing something weird where it isn't inserting all the images I want to add to this post. So this is what you get I guess.

We made some soft and silky play dough from a recipe found on Pinterest. 

There he is with that hat again. haha

He loved playing with. We have made play dough before and I liked how they turned out but I loved the way this one feels. 

Can't you tell he loved it.

This is our anniversary and the following pictures(unless I tell you otherwise). This was our breakman or tour guide. 

That was the train ahead of us  I believe.

Quentin switched camera lenses and got a closer view of the train in front of us.

This water is 100% pure. The Breakman guy told us a story where the workers would drink the water during their breaks. The boss guy thought he should get it checked out to see how clean it was and to know that it wasn't harming or infecting his workers. He sent in a sample to a lab and it came back as 100% pure. He didn't believe them so he sent in another sample to another lab and the same results came back. He still didn't believe them so he sent another sample to ANOTHER lab. The results came back as 100% pure water. He thought, well third time is the charm and allowed his workers to continue drinking the water.

This is the only steam engine that goes up and down the mountain. It only takes people up in the mornings. Our train left at 11:31 in the morning and this is the steam engine train coming down the mountain. It has to stop halfway at the water tank(above) to fill up and then it can continue going down the mountain. I believe it uses 750 tons of coal. If I remember correctly. There is the guy who drives the train and a fireman next to him in case something happens.

Some hikers if you can see them. 

The view!

Those pile of rocks are called cairns. They are on the trail to help hikers know where to go.

This is at the top where our train dropped us off. 

Isn't it beautiful? Apparently we chose a good day to go up the mountain because they breakman said that the day before was really cloudy and that you couldn't see five miles ahead. This day he said that you can see 50 miles ahead and that the temperature was good. I think it was 52 degrees up there.

They have a legit post office. They even encouraged you to send a letter to someone.

This is looking straight down. Nothing much.

I like that hole in the clouds.

"Look at those Irish curls" as my mom would say.

That is the tower where all their weather instruments are. I learned that in the winter times they get iced over and someone has to go out there and knock it all off. I would hate to have that job.

This is interesting. It is really dark on one side and then there is light on the side we are on.

Like those layers of mountains? Yeah I live in a beautiful place.

Proof that there is wildlife on that mountain. This little rabbit was actually racing our train down the mountain.

Quentin and I both thought that this was funny because we are on the mountain and people climb it.

There is the steam engine train parked.

On Sundays before church(which starts at 1 in the afternoon) I let Oliver watch Bible videos, listen to children's hymns, or I'm one in a billion video off the church's website. 

He fell asleep as you can tell.

In his pool noodle. I guess he thinks it is comfortable.

Quentin is the Young Men's president. This is him and his one YM, Calvin. That is Uncle Asa next to Calvin.

Since our anniversary Quentin made a goal to hike Mount Washington. And in order to do that he has to train himself and gain some strength and endurance. His goal is to hike every Saturday trails that are around where we live. This is Mount Monadnock which is a 3 hour hike up and down. Mount Washington is a 5 1/2 hour hike up and down I believe, or maybe it is just up. I don't remember.

This hike is on Table Rock. This picture scares me. I tell Quentin to be safe and then he takes pictures like this and shows them to me. Doesn't he know that I worry?!

Asa being Quentin's prop.

He is good at posing for Quentin.

This is Mount Monadnock again except this time he went with his sister, Ivy, the missionaries, and his brother, Asa. At the top of the mountain there is a fire tower that you can climb up(if you aren't too tired from climbing up the mountain) and you can experience how winding it gets. 

That is all for August. I am almost all the way caught up! Woot Woot! It pays to have family near by to babysit when you aren't feeling well and are on bed rest.