Halloween

Here are a few pics from Autumn's first Halloween. She helped us pass out candy at the house for Trick-or-Treat and even let us torture her a little by putting her in a pumpkin! It was beautiful outside and we couldn't resist. We figured this would be the first and last year we could get away with it! She wasn't a big fan of the cold slimy stuff at first but after a few minutes she got nice and cozy in the pumpkin and hung out there for a while.

A few pics of Autumn in her caterpillar costume

October update

Over the past month Autumn has starting doing lots of new things. She's gotten through all of her first foods and not surprisingly she likes them all! She's also rolling over a lot more and has started sitting up on her own. She loves to sit and watch Macy everywhere she goes. Her two front bottom teeth are both in as well! She did a great job with that and it didn't seem to bother her too much, but we hear it gets worse with the top ones!

We are looking forward to torturing her next week with her Halloween costume :)

We went to a pumpkin patch last week. She was mainly interested in watching all the traffic go by...

Doing the two things she loves most at the same time...blowing raspberries and playing with her feet!

Looks like it was peas night. She is quite a good eater and we've been told by a lot of other friends and parents that we're very lucky when it comes to that.

Autumn and Maddie at the pumpkin patch. Considering they were both sound asleep when we got there they cooperated very well!

A pic of Autumn and Brady from last week when Brady, Gabe and Sara came to visit us. We have to confess that this was taken at our neighbors' house because Nick and I have not done a good job of being festive this year.

Family Update

It has been a very busy month and we've not done a very good job of updating the blog so this is our attempt to get caught up. Autumn is doing very well and we've had a lot of fun with her over the past month. She's now 5.5 months which is hard to believe. We started feeding her rice cereal about a month ago and vegetables this past week (pictures of that to come....). She is definitely a good eater - not off the top of the chart though so that's good!

We think within the next few weeks she'll be rolling over and sitting up on her own. We're very excited for those milestones but also trying to enjoy the time we have left before we can't keep up with her!



Her first OSU football game! (She's actually slept through most of the games so far
which is probably a smart move this season)


First time eating rice cereal


I guess actually having to chew your food is hard work at first. This pic is from the second or third night we gave her rice. She fell asleep between bites and was out for the night!


We went out to Wyoming to visit my grandparents at the beginning of September
with Brian, Shannon and Maddie. My parents also drove out so we were all able to be there together which was very nice. This is Autumn and Maddie in the Minneapolis airport between flights. It was a long night of flying (it was about 10pm ET when this was taken). So cute in their OSU strollers from grandma and grandpa Latta!


Autumn with her great-grandpa Flynn. I think this explains her big noggin! They have matching head shapes, and matching lack of hair :)


Autumn with her great-grandma Flynn. Unfortunately her health is failing which has been difficult, but we can't express how thankful we were to have the chance to see her and for her to meet Autumn.


Brady, our nephew, celebrated his first birthday last weekend!! So hard to believe that it's been a year already.


Naked cousins - Brady and Autumn in their birthday suits!


Autumn with her great-grandpa Church at Brady's party :)

Our weekend in Charlotte

Last weekend we took our first roadtrip with Autumn and some of our friends, Mindy and Jeremy. It was a great weekend spending time with a lot of our friends. We spent a day with Kate and Dan and their brand new little boy Owen (Kate and Mindy are both friends from college) and then spent a day at Robin's house hanging out with a bunch of friends from high school.


Autumn was such a great sport in the car. She slept most of the time both ways and we were all very thankful that she was such a good traveler.

The gang at Robin's house

Autumn doing what she loves most these days - chewing on her fingers.

Autumn and Grant

Kate and Dan's one month old, Owen (mini Dan)

Jeremy taking a long nap with Owen

Autumn at 4 months

Here are some pics of Autumn throughout the past month.

First day in the exersaucer!

Weekend with friends and Maddie's 1st B-day

Maddie eating her cake

Maddie opening her gifts

Autumn's first time in a pool! She did really well (even though she looks a little scared in this pic)

Autumn, Jarrett (Kim's son) and Grant (Robin's son)

So nice to see some of the girls and babies

4th of July

We had a great 4th of July weekend hanging out at Nick's parent's lakehouse in Michigan. We also got to spend a little time with my parents on our way back to Columbus and saw some friends we don't get to see nearly enough.

All dressed up in her 4th of July outfit

Taking a few nice Saturday afternoon naps outside by the lake.

Her first time in the water. The waves were a little scary for her, but Brady had fun.


Autumn and Grandma

Autumn and Grandpa


Elisa, Ava and Autumn