Thursday, November 6, 2014

Louis Turns 3!

We had a lovely party to celebrate Louis’s 3rd birthday. We invited our neighborhood friends over to a harvest/Cars themed party. Louis got lots of awesome toys (mostly cars). His cake featured Lighting McQueen. Grandma Lorraine and Matt helped decorate the cake.

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Louis’s best friend from school Luca came to the party. They enjoyed jumping in the leaves._MG_7834_MG_7833_MG_7831

Here’s a video of Louis doing “flips” into the leaves.

Monday, November 3, 2014

Copper (formerly known as Spice)

We adopted Copper in early October. He is a 2 year old terrier mix. IMG_20141002_180433026_HDR

Of our family members, Andrew loves Copper the most, or at least he is the most interested in what Cooper is doing or eating. It’s impossible for Copper to eat if Andrew is around. And Copper won’t eat if Andrew is in his high chair because he is too distracted by what might be falling from his tray, on purpose or on accident.

Copper is very tolerant of Andrew hugging, kissing, and pulling on him.

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These two videos were taken back to back and illustrate Andrew’s interest in Copper and Copper’s patience. (There is something wrong with my audio at the end, but the video is too cute to delete it for that flaw).

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Matt visits the White House

Matt traveled to D.C. for the annual fall harvest of the White House garden. Michelle Obama was in attendance.

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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Backyard and Garden, Summer 2014

Andrew loves picking and eating cherry tomatoes and strawberries of any stage of ripeness.IMG_7728IMG_7720IMG_7710IMG_7752IMG_7747IMG_7746

 

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2014 was a good year for basil. We turned most of ours into pesto and froze it.IMG_7810IMG_7817