Trick or Treat!

Our Halloween started with a Fall Photo-shoot in our front yard.  Then we headed over to the Whipples' in West Asheville for trick-or-treating with Melanie and the Zetterholms.  Juliet was carried most of the evening, but she did carry her own pumpkin-basket and her candy of choice at each home was a sucker.  She finished off her evening with her first piece of candy: a sucker.

Tinkerbell Naomi, Peter Pan Ben, and Ladybug Juliet

First candy.  -- best night-time snack for one year olds, right?!

Wrapping up the night with a sucker and a swing on the porch.

going out with her boots on...

Apple Picking

Around here we are trying to cover all of our boundaries in the "Fall Activities" category :)  So, Saturday we went Apple Picking with my good friend Amanda and her boyfriend.  Juliet is not a big fan of actually eating apples yet, but she really likes to chew them and spit them out and throw/roll them like balls. 

13 Months and A Pumpkin Patch

Juliet has blossomed into a happy little girl this month.  Her walking has really taken-off and she is happier around strangers.  For the first time, since she was like 5 months old, she did not cry last week when I dropped her off in the nursery during Bible Study!  She does a great job of playing by herself now, she loves baby-dolls and stuffed animals, and she just loves walking around and getting into anything and everything.  She particularly loves for anyone around to rock and sing to her baby/stuffed animal :)  Juliet is sleeping 13 hours at night (!!!!!!) and taking two 1-hour naps during the day.  Bliss.

Today was a beautiful fall day (which in Asheville they are almost all beautiful!), so we headed to a nearby Pumpkin Patch.  Juliet got to pick out a pumpkin and go on a hay ride!

 

You're hot and you're cold!

Juliet is really into the word "hot" these days.  If any of her food is even remotely warm she will say "aawwt" as soon as she puts it into her mouth.  And she likes to mimic us blowing on the hot food as well.  She currently signs (as you'll see some the video below) "all done", "more", and "please".

Juliet Isabel is a Gift from God

My mom had her friend, who does quilted art, make a wall-hanging for Juliet's room.  The wall-hanging could not be more perfect or more true.