I got some pictures posted the other day, but I hadn’t been able to find a few minutes to write up an actual post. Since Nate seems content to watch his fish for a few minutes, I’ll try and give you a real update.
We’ve been keeping quite busy lately. At the end of September we took a trip down to Ithaca to visit Liz and Eric Woods, and attend the Ithaca apple harvest festival. We haven’t got any of those pictures up yet, though. We had a good time, and Nate did really well during the 90 minute drive.
Columbus Day weekend Chris’ parents came out for a visit, and we went to the Lafayette apple festival. The main purpose for going is to fill up on the best apple fritters ever. Nate loves to be outside and around people. As long as he’s in the baby bjorn, he’s quite content. After the festival, we went for a short hike to Tinker Falls. Unfortunately it was only a dribble because of the lack of rain we got this summer. We’ll have to go back in the spring. On Sunday we took a trip out to Hamilton and had lunch at the Colgate Inn. Very nice place, and we’ll definitely be going back.
Last weekend Chris, Nate and I participated in the Crop Walk in Caz. Thanks to everyone who donated to the cause. It was a 3 mile walk around the town. We pushed Nate in the stroller because neither one of us was particularly in the mood to carry him. He did surprisingly well, and slept for about half of the walk. We thought for sure he was going to be fussy after 5 minutes, which is what usually happens.
Nate is doing quite well. He has mastered rolling over from his back to his stomach, which has caused problems at night. He doesn’t like to be on his stomach (and hasn’t learned to roll back over) so he wakes up screaming. He’s also starting to learn balance so that he can sit on his own. Right now he can go for 30 seconds or so, as long as he doesn’t think too hard about it. The good news is that he thinks its really funny when he falls over on his face (so far we’re only sitting on the bed, so its soft when he falls).
Well the fish have lost their appeal, so I need to go.
