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Last Sunday we took a drive over to Canterbury Village, where we met up with the two Erickson families and Marlee. It was a lot of fun walking through the Christmas store and checking out some of the other little shops. The kids enjoyed it, especially when Jonah got to have some ice cream. Here are a few pictures we took. This is your new blog post. Click here and start typing, or drag in elements from the top bar.
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Caleb had a cold and a runny nose this week, so we didn't venture out too much, especially because there were some really windy days bound to worsen his condition. As a result, we had to find things to do inside. Here are a few pictures I took of our indoor play time, which included building forts, lining up and counting Jonah's matchbox cars, separating the cars into different colors, and driving the cars down the couch cushion racetrack:            And now that Jonah has gone through the alphabet and learned the letters and sounds (for the most part), we have begun working on writing his letters. Auntie Am gave us some little chalkboards from her classroom that she doesn't use anymore, so we've put them to good use. Again, we're starting with consonants, and here's Jonah's first attempt at writing the letter b. I guided his hand for the big one and the middle one on the bottom, but other than that, he wrote the rest totally by himself. I'm pretty proud of him!!! 
 This week Grandpa and Grandma came to town, and due to their visit we had many activities! They came and spent Tuesday and Wednesday with our boys so Luke and I could go to Frankenmuth for the night, and that was wonderful. It's the first time we've ever left the kids overnight actually. Jonah and Caleb had a great time with Grandpa and Grandma. They played in the leaves, threw tennis balls with Grandpa, and just had quality time together. On Friday, while Caleb spent most of the day with Aunt Maria, I took Jonah out to Greenfield Village with Grandpa and Grandma, where Aunt Am and Miss Marlee were spending the day with their students on an annual field trip. I had never been there before, and it was really a neat place. Jonah is still a little too young to appreciate it, but he still had a great time with his grandparents and auntie. So I put together a little slideshow here from the whole week. You'll see pics with Grandpa and Grandma, just hanging out at the condo. Also, there are a few of Luke & I in Frankenmuth, and then some from Greenfield Village. I hope you enjoy them all!  What's the next best thing to raking leaves? Sweeping them! Since we have no yard, we resorted this weekend to sweeping leaves into a big pile in the road behind our condo. The boys loved it. We haven't really experienced fall over the past 4 years (for me and 6 years for Luke), so it has been awesome to watch the leaves change color and fall from the trees. When we were living in FL, Luke's mom would send him a box of leaves every fall because she knew how much he missed it... it's nice that she doesn't have to do it now as we are experiencing this very beautiful season for ourselves! Here's a little slideshow of pictures we took over the weekend: I just got another picture from Pop, and I had to post it... Jonah is so blessed to have a Godmother like her! 
As I mentioned in my last post, we had a visit this weekend from Grammy & Pop, and Auntie Teresa. They arrived Thursday afternoon and stayed until Sunday morning. In that time, we packed in as many activities as possible. On Friday, they took both the kids to Jungle Java and then out for an ice cream treat. On Saturday, we went out to Hartland, where we drove by the farmhouse we're trying to buy and then to a cider mill not too far away. It was chilly outside, but the kids thoroughly enjoyed being there, and so did the rest of us. Here are some pictures from our weekend... enjoy!             Jonah and I are still going through the alphabet, which we started last year. We kind of stopped over the summer due to all of our moving around, but now we're back in the swing of things. This week we are working on the letter Q, and today we built one with Jonah's blocks. After we get through the alphabet, we are going to start working on some phonics so we'll be on the road to reading. Jonah is very excited about that. But not as excited as he is about making some cookies in the shape of Q this week! Also, we had Grammy, Pop, and Sr. Teresa visit us this past weekend, and it was wonderful! Jonah and Caleb had so much fun. We took some pictures, but they accidentally got erased, so as soon as we receive some pics from Grammy we'll get those up on the blog. No rush, Grammy, take your time.
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