October

To celebrate both the girls birthdays in October, we wanted to do something with Kathy. We were hoping to go horse back riding but God closed that door. I was really apprehensive with Victoria riding a horse with her brain coming down her brain stem. So we went to a ceramic painting place in our puny mall. Kathy painted/glazed a knitting bowl that turned out really pretty. Victoria painted a dog bank to look like Jasper. Daphne painted salt and pepper shaker cats to look like Thunder and Lightning. And I painted a little dog plate to use as a spoon rest in the colors of Henry.

We took MerkTavitch to IFA to pick out a present for his First Birthday. And then we texted Kaleb a photo of Merk with his new toy. It freaked Kaleb out because he thought he missed his birthday but then realized that we were just a day early. Merk wanted this sloth. He likes flimsy fabric type toys.

I used my umbrella to bring treats to the goats and Brody. The goats were not sure about the umbrella. Brody could care less. 

The past two years, our maple trees leaves froze before they could fall to the ground. We have a real Fall this year. Finally!!

I came upon this scene of Kaleb and Merk dressed like twinsies coming back from their Saturday morning run. Merk's harness is orange and black like Kalebs shorts.

We celebrated Daphne's and Victoria's birthday really late. The kitchen was still not helpful in baking a cake so we waited until almost November to celebrate their birthdays. Plus I had to bake two because Daphne has to be Grain free, Gluten free, Dairy free, no refined sugar...you name it she probably can't have it. 

Of course Victoria's was Triple Fudge Chocolate, homemade cake and homemade frosting.

Daphne's was gluten, grain and dairy free chocolate cake and coconut base frosting. She was so happy to have cake that she can eat.

Kaleb. Victoria and I had to get out of the house. We were all getting stir crazy really bad and bad things were about to happen if we didn't get out of the house. So we walked along the canal.

Kaleb acting goofy with these enormous leaves.

Victoria acting like a dork. She was mocking how other girls are all twitter happy and girly and how she is not so she decided to act like she was twitter happy. We have the most interesting conversations when were hiking.

These seed pods were all along the way. We did our best to spread them and watch them float in the breeze. I remember being little and my mom telling me not to blow the dandelions seed pods. We couldn't help it with these. They were huge!!

Sammy is getting old. It's been a year since Henry passed away and now Sam is 14 1/2 years old. He's become clingy and back to being a lap dog.

Jasper is so funny. Victoria put a mullet wig on him at the 4H Howl-O-Ween Agility Night. He cracks me up. He was trying to get my attention so he huffs until I looked at him. 

I cut holes in a sparklets water bottle and put treats and grain in it for Brody to kick around. It took him quite a while to figure out how to get the treats out. He started picking it up by the handle and then drop it, hoping the grain will fall out. He ended up stepping on the bottle and broke it. So now I have to find another big plastic bottle. His tail has grown back so nice since Jacks ate it last winter. Well, he did it again but worse. Jacks has eaten Brody's tail to the point that he might as well have shaved his tail. I was so mad. But then we noticed that Brody ate Jack's beard. SO I guess they are even.