Baby Gallory

As usual, our Thanksgiving feast was, well, BIG. Somehow we always forget, that it is ONE meal that we are cooking. Leftovers are nice, but if you like to cook, they stand in your way of creations to follow. This year, we had two guests - Uncle Dave, and Auntie Swati. Julian will, I think, ask Swati to marry him as soon as he can put such complicated sentence together. Mine, all MINE!!!! Little Foodah Gotta learn your trucks early... We haven't done crepes in a while as they require much more time and energy than we could spare since our Little Man was born, but since both of our esteemed guests put in the request, we had to get busy. Julian and The Tractor Julian and The Composting Potty

The last day at the Farm is always a little sad - no more weekly trips, no more singing to cows, running around in the grass, chasing Bob the Cat... But then the Spring comes, and all is well in the end.

What do I do with this bucket thingy, again? Julian's second Halloween was more fun than the first one - for the parents, that is. He could walk further on his own this time, before having to be carried... :) Trust me, them costumes are not easy to work around if the kids refuses to take another step by himself.

We spent Julian's second birthday with Baba Hania and Dziadzio Andrzej in Florida. Because of the red tide, we couldn't spend any time on the beach (talk about a bummer), but manager to have loads of fun nevertheless. Julian discussing the upcoming presidential election with Baba and Dziadzio Julian's Birthday Cake consisted of an artfuly arranged egg-free scones from a nearby English Tea House. Kudos to Baba for finding these - and the candles!!! It took us a bit of an effort to pull out the candles from the scones before J-man ate them. Leisurely refreshing Dziadzio's knowledge of the alphabet... ...and studying the effects of static electricity on people's hair. Let's do that AGAIN!!!!!!

Candy visited us for a weekend. Julian enjoyed reading books in his tent, and apple picking at a nearby orchard...

Daddy and little J went on a 2-mile YMCA walk with Neal and Benjamin (aka "Benny" as Julian call him) on a fine Saturday morning. After the walk we went downtown to play a little bit. As you can see the leaves are starting to fall here...

Our yearly hike up to Glen Arbor was nothing less than perfect. For the 5 days we spent there we pretty much did the same thing each day: got up with Julian, ate breakfast, went to a beach, went back to the cabin for lunch and a nap, got up, went to another beach, grilled on the patio at the cabin for dinner, read, and slept. However, we did manage to slip in a few extra activities. Nothing too stressful of course... Throwing Acorns in the River Taking Pictures on the Beach Touring Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Goofing Around Stone Skipping Lessons Climbing Sand Dunes Looking Good Riding Bikes (Julian's Favorite)