The Leaves are Falling

I just love fall. The trees are so pretty. Usually, the weather is so nice. It's been really rainy this year. Noah has been enjoying the leaves. He "helped" his daddy rake leaves Saturday. (Noah raked with a broom.)

Remember that rain I mentioned??? Well, it's created a little mud...which Noah fell into. He had it in his nose. It was a little gross.

Greg got Noah some little golf clubs. He's really enjoyed playing with them.

But enough with the pictures already...

Noah and John have their first matching shirts. Now we just have to wait for John's appearance.

"Pun'kin Patch"

...as Noah says.

As planned we went to the pumpkin patch last Saturday. It was really cold and muddy. But it wasn't crowded. And we did have a good time. Noah didn't seem to notice it was cold.

Just wanted to swing

He walked through the tunnel all by himself.

Sittin' in the pumpkins

Not too sure about Red Robbin

This one looks good.

Our trees in our yard a so pretty. Greg will soon have LOTS of leaves to rake. Who am I kidding? He already does.

He Shall be Called...

We've finally picked a name. After going back and forth 800 times (and this is not too much of an exaggeration...I don't do that kind of thing).

John David Schuster

Noah is calling him Baby John John, which is super cute.

We picked John because it's Greg's middle name and it has a really great meaning (as does David).

John: God is gracious

David: The beloved one

In My Free Time

...I've been making these.

Future Engineer

Noah is obsessed with building towers. Correction...with us building the tower and then he knocks it over. Last night Greg and Noah were building towers while I was cleaning up after dinner. I heard Greg tell Noah to come tell me he needed something, but I couldn't quite hear what exactly they needed. Noah came running in and was saying something. I finally went and asked Greg because I had no idea what Noah was saying. He was say Duplos. I just didn't know what that was... (Excuse my ignorance.) I then remembered we had some blocks in the basement we'd put away because Noah was too little for them when we got them. So, I dug them out. That is all he wanted to play with today. He even built his own tower. (He's very proud and not dressed yet.)

He also got another hair cut today. He really does well when he goes. He just wiggles. He is generally a constant ball of motion, how can you expect him to sit still for a hair cut? He goes to the Hairy Elephant where kids are the clientele. They're used to wiggle worms. (Not the best picture ever, but we had a very busy day...this was the best I could do!)

Over the weekend, we were in Columbia for the Mizzou vs. Nebraska football game and for Aiden's 2nd birthday party. We had lots of fun with MiMi and Poppy. They let him do things mommy wouldn't let him do, like rummage through their closets and drawers. My mom said he was playing in her purses and found a tissue (clean, but wrinkled). He said icky and then was looking around for the trash can.

We also went to pick out a pumpkin. (We're going to the big pumpkin patch Saturday, weather permitting. So stay tuned for more pictures.)

It's a...

Two years ago when we went for our ultrasound with Noah to find out what he was, he was being very "modest," or stubborn... He had his legs crossed and wouldn't uncross them. After much coaxing from the Sonographer, he finally cooperated and we saw that Noah was indeed a boy. I was really afraid we were going to have the same problem today when we went to see what baby #2 was.

Profile of head and shoulders

Luckily, #2 was much more cooperative. In fact, I thought I knew before the Sonographer said anything. So...It's a boy!