Fearless Friday

We're potty learning. It's working okay so far - Noah is diaper-free while he's awake and dry if I remember to make him go to the bathroom. It's a start. You can read all about it here.

Jealousy

Düne, originally uploaded by Inka's Redezeit.

My sister just returned from vacationing in Juist, which is more or less the best island, ever. I'm barely containing my jealousy.

September

Do you ever not write a blog post because there's something else you wanted to blog about that happened earlier? I'd love to tell you all about our mini-vacation adventures, but I haven't written about our visit to the county fair last month yet. And I can't tell you about my new vitamix until I've done the vacation post.
In order to get current, I've decided to lob September into one post. You're welcome.
First, there was Bethany's visit and dotty shower:

Then, the weather got cool enough for Noah to wear the Chucks he got for his birthday back in July. He was excited. I was perhaps even more excited.

Then it got warm again. Warm enough, as a matter of fact, to go meet Brenda and Bug at the beach.

 The following week, we went to the county fair:

Noah really enjoyed petting the animals and was brave enough to feed them for the first time. He loved the fake farm where kids got to harvest plastic produce, but he was not a fan of the medieval dress-up stuff. Overall, he thought it was too loud.

And that, in a nutshell, was September. I have more to say about the fair, but I'll save that for another post. Let's all cross our fingers and hope it'll happen before Christmas.

internetters III

So, this happened. Bethany and Annalie came to California for an epic two-week visit, and while they were here, we saw a lot of Brenda and Bug as well. The above is a shot taken by Bethany in the Ikea parking structure, because no sooner had Bethany arrived at my house from the airport that I made everyone go to Ikea. And then to Trader Joe's.

We really didn't slow down much during this visit. Bethany stayed with different friends and family all around the area, and visited a lot of people and places that hold fun memories from Bethany's lives in San Diego (because she's actually (har, har) lived here twice).

Much driving, but also much playing, eating delicious food, good company, hilarious conversation, laughter, pottery painting, and photos ensued.

The grand finale of the trip was Bethany's dotty baby shower. Which was more or less the best babyshower ever.


For more photographic evidence of our shenanigans, click through to flickr. (Yes, there's a group. What of it?!)
It took almost two weeks for me to get caught up on sleep, but I had a blast. Thanks for coming, Bethany! I can't wait for next time.