A 2 Year Old and a 2 Month Old

We celebrated the arrival of fall a couple of weekends ago and went to a pumpkin patch that also had some other activities.

Eleanor played on a train

we went on a hayride

we milked a pretend cow

we ate ice cream

we saw a lot pumpkins

and we had our picture taken :)

Last week we got back from a trip to Utah. Andrew's school sent him down to the BYU law fair to do some recruiting. They paid for all of his accommodations, so since Eleanor wasn't quite 2 yet, we were all able to go for just the price of my plane ticket. It was so fun to see my brother and 2 sisters that are at BYU and my dad even came in town. We celebrated Eleanor's birthday a week early with them and made her a practice birthday cake. I really should have taken more pictures, but unfortunately this is all I've got.

Another great thing about our trip is that we got flight vouchers! Score!! We have gotten so many vouchers in the last couple of years. I think Eleanor is some kind of good luck charm. Our flight out of SLC sat on the runway for almost 2 hours because there were some mechanical issues so we missed our connection in Denver and had to spend the night there and fly out the next morning. As anxious as I was to just get home with my overtired children, I think all the hassle was worth getting some vouchers!

In other news, Penelope turned 2 months! She still loves to be held and rocked, but ever since we put her on medicine for her reflux she has turned into our little angel baby. She is so sweet and smiles and coos so much. She sleeps like a champ - at night she'll go from about 11 pm to 6 am then eat and go back to sleep until about 8:30 am. She is in the 95th percentile for height and weight! And I'm sad to say this is one of the only recent pictures I have of her. I really need to pull my camera out more often. She sucks on her hands all the time and I bet she'll turn into a thumb sucker like her big sister one of these days.

Before the weather gets too cold we are trying to take advantage of our beautiful fall here in Ohio. So over the weekend we went to the Cleveland Zoo.

Andrew and Eleanor aren't that great at showing how excited they really are in pictures. I promise, they were really having a good time!

Eleanor really got excited about the polar bear

She really didn't like having her picture taken


She loves giraffes and says they are "toooolll" (toe-l) (translation: tall)

She loved playing on the playground

she loved riding the elephant

she loved riding the tram, which she insisted was a choo-choo

and she loves her dada!

On Sunday Eleanor turned 2! So i made a little cookie cake and she opened her presents.

She was very excited about her Buzz, Woody, and Alien pool throw toys that I got on summer clearance at target...best $2.48 I ever spent!


A birthday celebration has to last at least a week, right?? So on Tuesday we took Eleanor to Chuck E. Cheese with her buddy Katherine. This clock ride was by far her favorite thing there!

Happy Birthday to our little Eleanor!