Halloween is obviously the most exciting thing this month. It was a lot of fun carving a pumpkin with Sasha - however she wasn't into touching the insides, too messy so I had to do all the scooping. Throughout the month we made pumpkin bread, pumpkin pancakes and had lots of apple cider. We unfortunately were too tired to get to a real pumpkin patch, last year we went down to Half Moon Bay's big fall festival, but think Sasha still enjoyed herself. We went on some fall walks and collected colorful leaves as a family but have to admit this is the time of year we most miss being back east. Halloween itself was a great day and we went to our neighborhood's parade with friends. The costumes were great- we saw a bunch of little yoda's, a lot of princesses and some creative costumes such as a baby taco. It ends at the cemetery near our house, designed by Julia Morgan, which has a little park at the base and it had 5 bouncy houses and a pumpkin patch where everyone got to take home a pumpkin. Sasha spent about an hour bouncing and it was hard to tear her away. Then after a nap we headed over to a friends Halloween party for dinner and played pin the grin on the pumpkin as well as a Monster Mash freeze game. After the kids went out for a little trick or treating [to 5 houses on our block] which Sasha decided to ride her new bike with training wheels, we headed home exhausted and with a good amount of lute. Alex just finished fixing and painting Sasha's new free bike so he was thrilled she wouldn't go anywhere without it. She's doing really well on it and it's a lot of fun to watch.Noah I think had a good 1st Halloween- he mostly slept throughout the parade but with all the stimulation seemed happy just hanging out watching. Thank goodness he's so chill. He's growing unbelievably fast- he was 11 lbs. at 7 wks. after being born 6 lbs. 12 oz. so we're enjoying all of his chubbiness. He's a super smiley baby and really only cries when hungry. He even goes to sleep wide awake in his crib without a pacifier, nightlight or music...Sasha still requires her paci so we're thrilled. He also had 2 nights of 7 straight hrs. of sleep which we're hoping to see more of!
Enjoy this months pictures!
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