Our Happy Strawberry

Many months after strawberries had been well established as Cate's favorite food, we heard babies aren't supposed to have strawberries until they are a year old. Well, all I can say to that is that I'm so glad I didn't deprive Cate of even a day of strawberry eating. We figure she eats about a pound of strawberries every 4-5 days. That's a lot when you only weigh 18 pounds. I recently bought a two-pound container and wondered if she would be able to eat them before they went bad. Answer: yes.

I can't think of a better way to celebrate Cate's first favorite thing than this:

Our Blue-Eyed Pixie

I love this picture of Cate because it shows just how blue her eyes are.

She is still so tiny, and I love that you can tell just what a pixie she is here. Sam's eyes are hazel and mine are really more greenish than blue. We figure she must have gotten those wonderful eyes from my very blue-eyed parents.

We love our little blue-eyed pixie!

Pumpkin Picking!

Last week we went to pick out our pumpkins!

I had big plans to find us someplace with pick-your-own-fruit, hay rides, caramel apples, cider, and the whole Fall thing, but it turns out those places (at least the ones I could find around here) aren't open on Mondays. Because our weekend is Sunday/Monday instead of the usual Saturday/Sunday, Monday was the day for picking. Oh well, I figure we'll all have more fun at a Fall Fest place next year when C's a little older anyway.

We found a pumpkin patch at a Methodist church near our house, and the proceeds from the pumpkin sale supported the youth choir's trip to Cuba. I have some mixed feelings about the ol' youth choir trip to Cuba, but where I've made it this long without injecting politics into the family blog I'll stick with talking about how adorable Cate was getting ready for her first Halloween.

Cate loved the wagon:

But it did take her a minute to warm up to the idea: