Life Lately

It’s finally the start of my favorite time of the year: September to December! Today I’ll be decorating for fall and watching It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown with my kids 🙂

Since I didn’t blog much in August, I thought it would be nice to recap the entire month since we had a lot going on….school, soccer, and our first lost tooth!

I took a picture of everyone to start the month off, and based on Harrison’s expression, you can tell he was ready for me to get the shot ha! Banks never wants to look at the camera and Merritt loves to look at her brothers, so I’m constantly telling Harrison to just smile while yelling, “Look at me! Look at Momma!” haha!

We spend our last Saturday of summer with the kids at a photo shoot for our local children’s boutique. We owned the last outfit they modeled (these Alabama clothes), so we kept them on and drove out to the Mennonite bakery for a sandwich. I stayed in the car with the babies since it was packed, and to keep everyone entertained, I put on DannyGo songs and Banks danced for Merritt 🙂

Everyone started back to school (including me) and it broke my heart because I loved the time I got with them this summer break. It just wasn’t long enough! Harrison is in 1st grade. Banks is in the 2 year old class. Merritt is in the 1 year old class.

I took this selfie to send to my friends since I’m obsessed with this show but have never read the books. This is probably the first time I’ve ever said this, but skip the books and just watch the show. So much better!

I bought Merritt some new fall clothes and snapped this picture to send to my mom and best friend. It’s fun to buy girl clothes! There’s always way more options for girls than there are for boys, and while I really love dressing my boys, shopping for girls is much easier because of the amount of options.

Harrison is playing soccer again this year (year 3) and I LOVE IT!! I hate to say it, but I love soccer season more than baseball season. So much more action and I can actually watch more of the game while the babies are playing on the sidelines. With baseball, I’m having to push them around in the stroller constantly, and I barely get to watch Harrison’s games.

Harrison and Dustin went to a Trash Panda baseball game one week night and it was the highlight of Harrison’s week! He loved it!

He lost his first tooth!!!!!! He let me pull it one night after dinner, and it just popped out! It was an exciting time in our house and he definitely feels like a big boy now that he’s lost a tooth.

Alabama may have lost their first football game, but at least the Shaneyfelt kids looked cute!

Another big happening this month was that Merritt learned to walk! She was a little behind on walking, so we took her to physical therapy. She would walk holding onto the furniture, but she would never walk on her own. After her first appointment, we had a few exercises to do with her. No lie, her walking picked up immediately after that! She “graduated” PT after 3 appointments and the therapist said she was the quickest graduating patient she’d ever had! She really just needed those exercises at the beginning to give her the confidence to walk on her own. Now she’s a walking machine! Harrison will say, “Merritt’s a walking girl!”

Now I’m off to exercise and get those fall decorations out! Happy September!