It's Fall!

Fall is in full swing in Madison now and yesterday we fully embraced the season.

We started our Saturday with a trip to the farmer's market. We love walking around, buying coffee and baked goods, sitting on the capital lawn, and judging everyone as they walk past us. (I'm a Green, I can't help it.) We usually don't even buy any vegetables since we have a CSA membership and struggle to eat the veggies we already have, but it's fun to see all of the interesting vendors and crazy veggies.

"Gangster Yooper"

After the farmer's market, we went home to clean out the garage, put our boats away for the winter and rake the lawn. Luckily, we had some adorable distractions for a while when the Creaghs stopped by.

Brooke, Grace and Charlotte hanging out with the little man

Grace LOVED holding Jay and playing with him, Charlotte got to ride her bike around and both girls managed to step in dog poop. Hopefully they will still come back ;) They met Jay 5 months ago and Grace couldn't stop calling him Baby Sean, which was adorable. This time she was confused about him being a boy or girl. Those girls are such adorable kids. Jay (big Jay) is a friend from camp and we assume all of these kids will go to camp and eventually work on staff just like us, so it is fun to imagine them raising hell like their parents in 16-18 years.

After they left, we got back to raking and found the one thing Jay doesn't laugh at... Every time Sean used the rake, Jay would scream in terror. Lucy hates when he cries, so she started going crazy and tried to climb in my lap along with Jay. Although I offered to abstain from the work and just hold Jay, Sean was having none of that. We showed Jay that raking is okay and he ended up having a blast playing while we raked the gajillion leaves from our one (amazing) oak tree.

 The final cherry on top of our perfect fall day was enjoying steaming mugs of cider (spiked with a hefty dose of whiskey, of course) while Jay slept soundly, probably dreaming of playing with the cute Creagh girls at camp in the years to come.

In other news...Jay has started solids! Although he was ready about two months ago and I got the okay from the pediatrician, I was reluctant to introduce solids until 6 months. So far he likes carrots...and gagged on chicken. If I'm being honest, I also gagged when I smelled the chicken. Gross. We will stick to easy foods for a little more before trying chicken again. I think I am going to try making my own baby food. It sounds pretty easy and kind of fun.