Charm City DeLight: Octember is for Oh so busy!

While our lives are normally one step away from chaos the October/November season is particularly nutty. With birthdays, baptisms, haunting holidays, school celebrations, and a bunch of work deadlines we barely came up for air in the six weeks from early October to mid-November. This year we added in a work trip for me to Detroit, a conference for me in DC, and a family trip to California so we are just plain exhausted! Despite this the kids keep growing, changing, and keeping us one our toes. I can't believe Larsen is 7 months old(um...no we still haven't taken her 7 month pic but we'll get there). The big news is she is crawling, pulling up, and starting to eat real food. Where did my infant go??? Bridger continues to expand his vocabulary and his imagination and story telling are getting better everyday. Even when work is super busy and sleep is hard to come by, we still try to celebrate life's moments and enjoy the season. So here is a peek at the fun stuff that has kept us busy the last six weeks...no need to take pics of all the work nonsense.

In mid-October we went to Larriland Farms to pick apples and pumpkins. We went there last year. It feels like we were just there last year with Bridger. In our nomadic life of late we don't have too many repeat adventures so it was special to be able to repeat out apple picking adventures as a family of 4.

So here is our big guy this year, followed by pics from last year. He seemed like such a big boy last year, but now he looks like such a baby at that time.

I know I said no work pics but I had to document Larsen's first flight. All the build up for this first flying adventure and it is to Detroit...fancy that!

In case you were wondering Grandma DeCamp worked her magic again and made two fabulous Halloween costumes. Our shark and mermaid were a hit at all the festivities!

We did do some trick or treating in the 'hood (at the homes of people we knew of course). Bridger is really into candy now but still was a bit nervous about the whole knocking at the door and asking for candy business.

Finally to round out our fall fun, here are some pics of our little Scotsman. Bridger's school has International Day around Halloween every year. It is either go big or go home with the costumes and after our big fail last year (somehow a track suit and a Portugal soccer ball didn't cut it as a traditional Portuguese outfit) we enlisted Grandma Ross to help with Scottish garb. We think she did a great job...Bridger looked awesome. Did I mention how grateful I am to have a mom and mother-in-law that can do the homemade thing!?! We love the end result and the special touch it brings to celebrations.