13 Months and Excavation Complete!

Now that Kyle's 13 months old, he thought it was finally appropriate to sprout his other bottom front tooth (4 months after its partner!). You can barely see it, but I felt it with my finger and it's there. So that's his big 13 month news. He's also not the great eater that he once was. He will still eat anything but loses interest very quickly and becomes fidgety and looks around like he wants out of his highchair. That's usually about the same time that he starts throwing his food on the floor. So feeding him has definitely become more challenging, as we knew it would. But I'm sure that he's somehow still getting enough. We've added meatballs and chicken nuggets to his "protein" rotation (along with eggs, and a yogurt everyday). And we even tried giving him black beans, which he liked, but let's just say that his diaper the next morning was like nothing I've ever seen before...

And as you can see in this picture, our lot has been cleared and excavated! The footings should be in by the end of the week and the foundation shortly after that. We can't believe how quickly things are moving...so exciting!!

And what a GORGEOUS day it was today!! Jared, Kyle and I took a walk tonight after dinner...it was almost dark but still so warm. If only every day could be low 70s and sunny...

Yesterday's Highs and Lows

Yesterday was filled with highs and lows.

First the highs...

• Kyle slept until 7:45am!!
• We went apple/pumpkin picking, and they still had Macouns
• We got lobsters for the games, 3 each...yummy and full of meat!!
• It was a beautiful day (which helped make one of the lows a little easier...)
  

And now for the lows...

• The Red Sox morphed into the Sox of old. Maybe next year...
• The Patriots let one get away
• And the low of all lows...I was locked out of the house for over an hour yesterday afternoon! We had just put Kyle down for a nap and Jared left to get the lobsters. I planned on working until the Pats game (while watching the end of the Sox game)...this was one of those days where I basically had every minute accounted for, so it was not a good day to lose an hour. During the commercials before the 9th inning, I decided to put our pumpkin out on the front steps. As I was positioning it, the wind blew the front door shut (locked). I wasn't overly worried because I knew we had a spare key under the deck. So for basically the next hour, I rummaged around under the deck looking for that darn key but to no avail. And the worst part of this ordeal was that I could hear Kyle crying hysterically in his crib...of all naps for him not to play and fall asleep...very sad/helpless/frustrating feeling :( Eventually he fell asleep, Jared returned, and all was well (except for the shock that Papelbon blew the 2 run lead!!). And of course Jared looked under the deck and found the spare key in about 10 seconds...
  

Apple Picking

We went apple picking today at a nearby orchard and were very pleasantly surprised by the abundance of Macouns still on the trees! I absolutely LOVE Macouns and thought we had missed the brief window that they are available. But I guess it was a real bumper crop this year, as we picked 10 lbs in about 5 minutes! Kyle had fun gnawing on an apple (although he wasn't able to break the skin) and he also enjoyed probing apples on the trees with his index finger :) Our neighbor and his 3 yr old son Jack joined us too, which was fun. Maybe we'll go back to this orchard next weekend to pick out our pumpkin (and to stock up on even more Macouns if they're still available!). And what a GORGEOUS day it was today!! It makes me sad to think that days like this are numbered...

And Kyle was great during the Pats game today...played independently for the 1st half and napped for the 2nd half, so we got to watch the game (great win!) with little interruption. The only negative of the day was that Kyle's head cold seemed to peak today, which made nursing near impossible because his nose was 100% blocked. This is his first cold in a while and I had forgotten how sad/frustrating it is when he tries to nurse and can't, and then becomes hysterical with real tears :( He wouldn't drink milk from a sippy cup either, so he basically went the entire day without liquid. But his bath tonight cleared him up a little though and afterward he nursed for a while, which was a relief because we were worried he was dehydrated. My cold peaked yesterday and I feel a lot better today (except for a bad cough). And amazingly Jared still hasn't caught it, knock on wood...