Fall is here and I'm finally starting to feel like myself again. Early pregnancy was very, very tiring for me and I did little besides sit or sleep for months, but now I feel great, and the boys & I are back out exploring our world. We've done a lot during the past month and I thought I'd share some pictures.
We harvested and have been enjoying pumpkins and squash from our little camp garden. Silas loves squash and they both really love pumpkin cookies, pie and cake.
I found that these two cannot be trusted alone with a pumpkin spice cake. I awoke from a nap to discover that they had eaten 3/4 of it in an afternoon.
Levi discovered that a chicken feather makes a great ink pen.
We attended the Common Ground Country Fair, one of my very favorite fall traditions. Silas loved it so much that he insisted we visit twice, even though it was a two-hour drive each way. We spent many, many hours in the children's area, the boys favorite part was definitely the hay jump (or hay war, as they called it).
Silas has been wearing his new fair t-shirt literally every single day since.
The boys caught a couple of large polyphemus moth caterpillars that immediately spun themselves into cocoons, we are looking forward to watching the big moths emerge in the spring.
And Mark returned from almost a month working in California, just in time to help us move again. The move was just from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor apartment, but still a move.
We have managed to sneak in a few adventures in the midst of all the work of moving, like the Corn & Apple Day with Chris from the Koviashuvik Local Living School.
We all spent the day in the woods at a local farm and made corn husk dolls, ground Indian corn into meal and made corn cakes and applesauce, which were cooked over a fire built by the kids, a wonderful fall celebration.
Happy Autumn!
