Oscar Stew

We finally took Rowan in for her 2 month check-up. She is just 9 days shy of being 4 months, way to be on-time! Our regular doctor went on maternity leave and I took my sweet time finding a new pediatrician. Besides, watching Rowan get her first set of shots wasn’t on the top of my priority list. We love our new pediatrician (thanks Rachel!), I think we will ditch the old doc and continue to go to the new place.

Rowan has happy-go-lucky and charmed the doctor. She loved the crinkly paper on the table, and was wiggling around like crazy trying to make noise. She wasn’t too thrilled about the shots, but got over it pretty quickly. She is 11lbs (25%) and 23.5inches tall (50%).

Her cute little band-aid. We need to have a talk with her about those short shorts.

This has nothing to do with her appointment, but I have to sneak in more pictures! I caught Rowan in a good mood a few days ago, she was flashing me all sorts of smiles and funny expressions. She is becoming so much fun lately!

Whaddya lookin’ at?

Do-De-Do. Just hanging out on Mom’s bed.

Whats that smell? Oh, it must be the mustard bomb in my pants. My bad.

Are you going to change my diaper or what?

I’m definitely missing the tiny helpless newborn stage, but it is so fun when they start to interact and play! The kids are having so much fun with her too, they seem to be able to get smiles out of her when I can’t! I think they are already planning ways to gang up on me…

We had to go back to the berry patch last week when the raspberries were ready for picking. The berries were calling to us, and there was no way we could ignore them.

The picking was great, but as you can tell the raspberries will be calling to us again. and again.

Looks like Brinley hit the jackpot. Look at all that red! But don’t get distracted by her red nails!

Keep working you swabs!!! Errr, I mean great job kids!

The kids worked so hard we had to let them take five. A little bit of back-breaking labor never hurt anyone. Apparently Drew would beg to differ. We couldn’t even win him over with a chocolate granola bar.

Our flat of berries. We be jammin!

This was the last weekend of summer. It’s a bummer, but summer has been good to us this year. We’ve enjoyed watching our garden grow from tiny seeds, to vegetable laden plants.

There isn’t anything tastier than a home-grown tomato. Yum!

Brinley isn’t a huge fan. That’s okay, these tastes have to be acquired. And that means there is more for me!

Drew pulls yet another delicasy for the privileged pig. After that one it’s back to store-bought carrots for Oscar. Sorry dude.

Here are our cute little sunflowers in their infancy. I’d show you what they look like fully matured, but they have been mangled by a squirrel we used to lovingly refer to as “Hammy.”

Drew and Brinley were pretty angry the morning we woke up and found some of our precious sunflowers laying half eaten on the ground. We were hoping to harvest the seeds, but it seems we are at odds with nature.

Death to Hammy and all his furry little friends.