Weekend Recap: Brewers, Apples, & All Things Fall

Happy official first day of fall!  What better way to kick off the season than with some awesome fall scents, sights, and tastes?!  This is the first weekend in a long time that we did not have much planned, and it felt a-mazing.  Before we kicked it in to fall gear, we brought Ben to his first Brewer's game!  We tailgated before making it in to the game for....1.5 innings.  It's not that he wasn't well behaved, it's just that he was VERY busy and did not want to sit down at all.  Luckily, it was an exciting 1.5 innings with a home run and all, but unfortunately Ben was more interested in the water bottle that belonged to the lady next to us.  Next year, Benj!

On Saturday morning, Benji had his first music class.  We didn't totally know what to expect, and I probably should have been more prepared, but oh well!  It was much more structured (and strict!) than we were anticipating.  If your child made too much noise, you were supposed to go into the hall so as not to distract the other kids.  I was going to make it a no-nuk event until I learned that rule--you better believe I had that puppy nearby at all times!  Even though Benji was so stinking cute and such a good boy the whole time, I didn't take any pics because I was afraid of being that (rebel) mom.  :)  All in all though, I would consider it a success.  Ben loves music and he was quite focused on all the new sights and sounds.  I just better make sure we do our homework and listen to the CD so we aren't the only ones who don't know the words to all of the songs next week.  But on to the fall fun!  I must have attempted to make up for my picture-free morning by taking a million photos at the apple orchard.  Who am I kidding?!  I would have done that either way.  ;)

I didn't even know that Ben likes apples, but it turns out he is obsessed with at least biting on them and sucking on the juice.  Of course I was freaking out that he would choke on a chunk of apple, but at the same time I'm not actually sure that he ever swallowed anything at all.

I seriously love these pictures and I had a hard time choosing which ones to post, obviously.   We were a good half way into our trip when I realized that I had been so busy watching Ben and socializing that I hadn't picked any apples yet.  Thanks to my friend Anne for capturing an action shot of me working so hard.

We had to put Ben to work too since he was otherwise leaving a trail of apples everywhere we went.  But, I'll take a bruised apple over a baby choking on an apple any day.  Whatever keeps him happy that doesn't involve double-fisting apples.

After we finished picking apples we checked out the apple orchard store, which we somehow missed on previous trips.  We went fall food wild!  Apple syrup, mulling spices, cinnamon sticks, apple pumpkin bread, apple pie (heavenly!), apple cider donuts (world's greatest donuts, and I don't even like donuts)---just to name a few of the treats we went home with.  We didn't buy any pumpkins just yet, but Ben had a darn good time showing us what he looks for in a pumpkin--bigger and heavier than he is!

As if I didn't almost die from the cuteness overload when he tried (unsuccessfully) to pick up a watermelon the other day, I had an even better time watching him try and pick up pumpkins.  He gets an A+ for effort and for the determined noises he made.

As you can see, we were all in fall bliss after this trip.  We went home and Andy made a delicious dinner incorporating some of our treats.  We lit our fall-scented candles, Red-boxed a scary movie (of sorts), and decorated the house with some fall decor.  We meant to make a fire to add to the effect, but forgot.  Luckily, we have many fall weekends ahead of us!  Happy fall to all and to all a good night!