Happy Fall! 🍂

We’ve been keeping busy and getting into our fall routine of school and activities! J has already completed his first quarter of 2nd grade! That means his report card will come home and we have Parent/Teacher Conferences coming up. The month of October gets quite busy after this week, so I figured I’d better update before I have too much going on- we have Hope’s 3rd birthday coming up (😭😭😭) as well as Norah’s baptism, Halloween, etc etc.

Looking back at my pics it looks like this fall has mostly been about Norah.... I guess because she’s cute and sits still and smiles for pictures? 😊

Hope is always a “big helper”. She wanted to help set the table, so her job was napkins!

Jeremiah loves, loves, LOVES his baby sister! He’s always quick to make her laugh and smile, it’s pretty sweet.

Already teaching her how to make silly faces!

Of course Hope loves her baby sister, too, and we hear “I want to make Norah ‘mile” about a billion times a day.

It’s fall and that means Hawkeye football! Adam works most Saturdays and has to miss a lot of the games on TV, but we still try to cheer them on!

Norah has the absolute best pouty face ever!! 😍

Yes, yes baby you can have whatever you want.

On September 21, Norah was 3 months old!

And next week already she’ll be 4 months old!

Jeremiah is currently about half-way through his soccer season, and he’s really enjoying it. He’s not the most aggressive on the team, but he gets some good kicks in there, gets LOTS of exercise, and does a lot of laughing and woo-hooing. 🤣

First game- almost 100 degrees!

J is on a team with a few boys from school which is so nice. Hope has gotten quite friendly with one of Jeremiah’s friend’s little brothers, Charlie. They are so cute! And Charlie always shares his popcorn.

Hope has been into braids again lately, and I attempted French braids for the first time!

I need to keep practicing. 😬

I just can’t get enough of the cheeks on this one!

One day, Jeremiah and Hope played together nicely! Without screaming or fighting! I had to capture it while it lasted.

On October 13 I got to be the guest reader in Jeremiah’s 2nd grade class (well, it was 1st and 2nd combined). I chose to read some books about pumpkins and made cut-out pumpkin cookies for the kids. So fun! 😄

And on the 14th, we spent the day in Chicago. Norah and I enjoyed a lovely baby shower for Auntie Abby! So excited to have a baby cousin in December!! 

That’s fall so far over here, we’re excited for what the next few weeks will bring!

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