Some October Fun

Hello! from the Bierma kids!

Peter is getting into puzzles. It's so much fun to watch him work it out and  do the puzzles over and over again!

Cora's class took a field trip to the Calvin Nature Preserve, which is almost in our backyard. I had fun going along as a  chaperon.

Trick or Treating with some of our friends and their kids. Calvin's apartments put together a family friendly candy collecting evening called "Light in the Night."

Addie is a happy baby. She smiles easily and often!

Early this month we went to farm tour and breakfast at a large dairy farm near Allegan. It was a cold, rainy day, but fun anyway! Cora said "You should write 'stinky, too'! From the cows." Our city noses weren't used to the farm smell.

The tracker shuttle from the parking lot (aka cleared corn field) to the farm tour was a highlight !

So was seeing the all the big tractors

Getting so big!

Peter had to get in on Addie's 4 month picture: good perspective 

Addie is rolling herself back and forth from back to tummy. She prefers  to sleep on her tummy, now that she can get herself there! (Cora is helping me edit this post and she said "and write 'Cora loves Addie'")

For some reason Blogger keeps uploading pictures like this...even though I save them correctly on my computer before loading them here. Oh well! Look how big Addie is getting!

At Addie's 4 month checkup last week she weighed in at over 15 lbs and very long -  in the 95 percentile for girls her age! She is doing great and developmentally right on track. She is eating rice and oatmeal baby food and getting the hang of eating from a spoon!

Cora is using quite a bit of Spanish at home. It's fun to hear the phrases or words that she is picking up. It's really nice that I can understand her! She came home from school the other day saying she was thirsty. I asked her what she wanted to drink and she replied, "leche con chocolate" which is Spanish for chocolate milk!