Fall Family pictures

 

 

Halloween!!

 

I love FALL!

Discovering the leaves... Victor was not sure at first but soon got to love them as much as I do!!

  

A couple of days later, we went to a different spot (since our mean neighbor had gotten rid of the leaves by her house) and found more leaves to roll into!! =)  Sooo much fun!!

  

Ready for troubles...

New look!

A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that Adam was having a hard time seeing things at a distance. We tested him by holding some big titles and asking him to read the letters and we concluded that he was in much need on glasses!!

It was confirmed by the optometrist who gave him a prescription of -2.75 of both eyes... Poor Adam who has been deprived from clear vision these past few months. When he was tested at the pediatrician office in May, they said that his vision was fine. He spent a lot of time reading this Summer and the optometrist said it is not clear why his vision has changed dramatically in such a short time but it is not uncommon either.

Adam picked his everyday glasses and I picked his second pair (which he is wearing in the pictures above - the other pair has not arrived yet) and he was quite excited.

This is what he wrote to his teacher the day after he got them:

I finaly got my first pair of glasses yesterday afternon! When I went into the basment from my afternon rest, my mom wasen't there.My dad said she was getting a surprise.When my mom came dounstairs a litle case was in her hand.She told me to open it.When I opend it there was my first pair of glasses.They said I look older when I put them on.When my litle brother came dounstairs he was surprised to see me waring glasses.He said "what is that".I told him" it's my glasses".

Morning fun!!

Preschool!

 

 

 

Cox Farm... We LOVE Cox Farm!!

 For those who don't know what  Cox Farm is, it is a Fall Festival where we have been going for the last 5 years... What a fun place!

Do you think I am obsessed with my camera if I tell you that I took 900 pictures during the 5 hours we spent at Cox Farm last weekend???

Well... Here are the 150 pictures I had to keep...

 

 Let me show you how much we had... We started off by going to our traditional first stop: the Fun Tunnel:

We have spread the word about this magical place to a lot of friends over the years and it is now fun to see everyone there on the Preview Weekend.

Last year, some friends told me how much they love their apple cider and how wonderful it is that you can just taste it there... I was wondering what they were talking about as I had never seen the barn where you could taste their apple cider... I then figured out that all these years we had gone there we had only gone to the lower half of the farm and there was a whole section that we had never seen!!! 

So we planned this year to start with the parts that we still needed to discover... How fun!

Apple cider and popcorn!! What a treat!

How could we have missed this giant slide?? I don't know... but this time we had so much fun trying it out... even Victor was laughing going down on Mark's lap!

 

Then off to the Hayride where we met our friends, the Sorensons. The boys were delighted to see Neve and Dane!

Adam had been asking about the corn maze over and over so we headed over there despite the fact that it was already time to go home for naps... I was proud of myself for being so flexible and enjoying the moment instead of sticking to our daily routine...

Victor was such a trooper, having his afternoon nap skipped all together and waiting for everyone to go down slide after slide... Look at this cute smile!!

 

 

Good bye Cox Farm... See you next year!! 

An adventure to Babbling Beauty...

Last year, Mark took the boys for a walk in the woods and came back delighted by the place they had discovered and named Babbling Beauty because of its charming stream.

I think they have been there a couple of times but on Victor's birthday I was finally introduced to this enchanted place!

On our way to Babbling Beauty...

 

Adam and Antoine were so excited to show me their special place and kept talking about it and describing it... =)

We were delighted to see a family of deer close by  having their own little adventure walk...

Once there, the boys played throwing rocks in the water and Victor was taking it all in... The colors and lighting were gorgeous. Simple joy and sweet memories...

Once back home, we celebrated Victor's First birthday simply with Banana Bread Muffins and Gifts...

Second grade... First day!!

Morning cuddles...

Milestones...

Victor has made great progress these past few weeks... from being an expert at shoveling cheerios in his mouth to crawling, but also propping himself up again the ottoman, the dishwasher or the bench...

Here are a few shots of our growing baby!!

Summer outing...

Adam and Antoine had earned coupons (through the Library reading program) which enabled us to do some fun activities this summer (beside the pool) such as the Water Mine, Pirates Cove and Mini-golf.

Mark has been very busy at work this summer, working late hours, taking the last train home and even spending some Saturdays at the FTC...

Adam was asking for weeks to go to the mini-golf with his Dad and we finally made it happen at the end of August... We had such a fun time even though we are far from being experts!!

Too adorable to pass...

 

Pure Joy...

These pictures remind of similar ones you took of Adam way back when...

Brotherly LOVE...