Sweetness of Fall

Well, there is the picture I promised of Miss C on the table. She was hopping up and down, so the camera caught her on a landing there. We've been really enjoying the start of fall. School routines are down, the fall dance and gymnastics classes have started, and we are starting to do the fun things that the season offers. This weekend we went apple picking at Anderson Orchard in Mooresville. It's a huge place, and they also have raspberries to pick as well. The girls had a great time, as did we. The weather was perfect. 70 degrees, light breeze, big puffy clouds, truely picturesque. Celia is obsessed with apples in general, so she was over the moon when she would pick one and eat it right then and there. Right now we have 3 huge bags sitting on our counter, and have already gone through 2/3 of one. Any time C sees someone eating on, she screams "bite, bite!" until you give in. Needless to say, there is a lot of apple eating done in secret around here.

Maia is changing so much in the last few weeks, it's amazing. Her speech has been great for awhile, but now she is developing such complex thought and reasoning it's truely astonishing. The other night, she was fighting with Sophia about a light. Sophia wanted to leave it on, and Maia wanted it off. She finally got upset and said to Sophie "But if you leave on the light, it will be bad for the earth!". She won. Sophia is HUGE on being good to the earth, so it was her first defeat. To see Maia make that connection though, "leaving on the light uses electricity, bad for the earth, Sophia also wants to take care of the earth, and I want this light off so this will work", it's cool.

Sophia is still loving school, though I'm 90% sure she has a crush on a boy in her class. She sits by him, and is in a group with him, but she wont' tell me his name. I have asked her every day to learn his name, but when she comes home, she just blushes and says she doesn't know. Oh, how upset she gets if I tease her! So it looks like we have our first mystery boy crush, on of many many in this house, I am sure. Lots of lovely things happening, fall is definately the best season in this house!