Ethan's 3 Year Photo Shoot!

I can't believe my little boy is 3! How can time fly by so quickly! I may be a (little) biased, but I just think he is the most handsome little man in the world! And I LOVE these pictures because Jill just captured his personality and got his genuine smile - something hard to do because Ethan is not really into having his picture taken! 

Avery's First Photo Session

Here are some of the pictures from our photo shoot of Avery. We also had Ethan's 3 year pictures done. The photographer is Jill (click on her name to see her website) and she does amazing work! I love the pictures and she was so great at getting Ethan to smile! All previous photo sessions we have done with him have been pretty stressful, but as you can tell from the pictures, he had a blast. I love all of the pictures and am having a hard time even picking out my faves to frame!

First Real Bath

Here are some pictures from Avery's first real bath.  Her umbilical cord fell off (so sad -she's already growing up too fast!) so we were able to do a real bath.  She is so cute!

Nana is here!

I am not sure who is more excited that nana is here - me or Ethan.  Ethan loves my mom and drags her all over the house asking her to play trains, cars etc with him.  The other night he wanted to play hide and go seek with her.  I had to get out the video camera because it was so funny.  He wanted her to hide, but he wanted to tell her where to hide.  So he would take her by the hand and put her in whatever hiding space he had picked out.  The best was when he pushed her into our (small) closet.  I was dying.  And each time he would hide her, then walk away, cover his eyes and say "1, 2 ,3 4, 10 Ready or not here I come.  Hmmmm where is that nana?" and then find her.  He is so funny.  My mom of course is loving it, and loving holding Avery.  As for me, I don't know how I am going to handle 2 little ones without help!  We may not leave the house for the next year. 

Pumpkin Festival

Fall is here and that can only mean one thing - fall pumpkin festival time!  There are so many fun fall festivals here and I am always so excited for fall because of them.  Although I am soooo sad to see summer leave!  I love summer time.  Anyway, this past weekend we went to a pumpkin festival in Leesburg and it was pretty fun, but I think Cox Farms is still better, so we will probably go there next time.  Here are some pictures of Ethan enjoying the slides and "bouncy bounce"!  I was surprised that they had this rope swing - it seemed a little dangerous, but Ethan loved it and luckily held on tight!  

So cute!

Avery is just adorable and we are so happy to have her!  

The first days home...

The first days home have been really nice and pretty peaceful really.  Ethan loves his baby sister and this night he wanted her to sleep with him.  I had to explain to him that it probably wasn't the best idea, but I let her lay with him in bed while I read him his bedtime stories.