Fall in NY!

I think one of my favorite places to be in the fall is at Danielle and Mike's house in NY. You can see the Hudson River from their house and with all the colorful trees in the background, it's beautiful. And luckily this October, we got to fly up there to visit for the weekend! Chad was a happy camper...he got to spend the whole day golfing Saturday with Mike and his friends, although it wasn't really golf weather. Usually my sister and I shop when we get together but now that Parker is in the picture (and is not always a happy shopper), we decided to spend the day just enjoying time together.

The first thing Parker did was to find the candy cabinet and was relentless about going in it. He also found the snack cabinet and tried to climb in a few times!





Then he found the piano...it took some practice but eventually they sounded pretty good (if you plugged your ears!).

After playing the piano he moved on to the eliptical...he had himself a good time climbing all over it. Aunt Danielle got on with him for a few minutes but I think he had more fun getting on it himself!

We also got pumpkins from the nursery up the street and carved pumpkins. We thought Parker would love playing in the seeds and goo but he didn't want anything to do with it. He did help Aunt Danielle draw the design on hers but that was as involved as he got with the pumpkin carving. Danielle carved a ghost and I did a cat...and I have to say that I was quite impressed with how they turned out!

On Sunday we decided to take him to the park. The was the weekend he started walking so we had a good time walking him try to walk from one toy to another (with a lot of encouragement since he still wanted to scoot!). They have a great park near their house that has a playground full of toys, which are all faded and broken because they just sit outside all the time. But Parker was all about trying to ride in a car that had bent wheels and just didn't understand why it wouldn't go anywhere!

After the park, we went a pumpkin festival at the Beacon train station and Mike took Chad to football at his friend Tommy's. Football Sunday is a big deal with Mike and his friends...they go to Tommy's house for all of the games and even have two TVs set up so they can watch all the games that are on. Bless Tommy's wife who allows this to happen every Sunday!

Thanks, Aunt Danielle & Uncle Mike for flying us up for the weekend...as usual we had a wonderful time!