Sky Top

Yesterday, we went to Sky Top to pick some apples. If I can finish the 47 blog posts I am writing in order to get caught up, I am going to whip up some apple-y treats and pretend it is not 85 degrees today. Here is some orchard-y cuteness. 

Cutie apple-picker.

People kept commenting on Miller's apple dress as if that is not the obvious choice! People, you have to theme-dress your kids while you can before they figure out its not cool to wear the concert t-shirt to the concert (so to speak.)

Guess who made her kid sit in a tree for a photo op? 

This lady!

Just try and tell me that's not the cutest thing you have ever seen!

I would just like to point out the marketing genius of this stupid thing. Now we have to keep going back every year. Well played, Sky Top!

By the way, the first day of fall may sound like a cute time to go pick apples, but you will not be the only one who thought of it. That place was packed. When we left, there was a crazy long line of cars all the way down the road. To pick apples. I mean, you can buy them in the grocery store! You would have thought we were at Disney World. Next year we might pick a different weekend, but we had a good time. We also had the added bonus of meeting up with Miss Julianne for lunch, which is better than Disney World according to Miller!

"Apple Festival"

You will notice that the title of this post is in quotation marks. Since I am familiar with how the English language works, I have used them for a reason. We took Miller to the "Apple Festival" on Labor Day. You see, we planned on going to the actual Apple Festival in Hendersonville, but it was raining and we didn't want to drive up there just to get rained on. We decided to go to the Labor Day Festival in Simpsonville instead. We had already told M that we were going to the Apple Festival and she was really pumped up about eating apples there, which is a little odd since she doesn't actually like apples on a day to day basis. When we got to the Labor Day Festival, M was all "We at the apple festival! I eat a apple!" Well, we may have just decided to just go with it and tell her that we were at the Apple Festival. Ha ha. Lucky for us, there was a little farmer's market there, so were able to get the kid an apple.

They had pony rides. M was afraid to actually ride the ponies at first, so she just stuck to petting them. 

Big girl riding a little train ride all by herself. This was a big deal, as Miller is usually a stage 5 clinger. 

This kid loves lemonade.

She also loves Simpsonville.

Finally, when we were about to leave, Miller decided that she would ride the "pony tails" after all. So she did. In the rain. She is still talking about it!

Granddaddy

Miller loves her some Granddaddy. She was so happy to get to go see him in Alabama few weeks ago.

New School

Here is Miller on her first day of 2-year-old-school. Do we call that 2K? I don't know. The photo shoot was a little rushed since her first day was also my first day, so this was the best we could do. She's got her new lunch box and "Little Bunny", what else do you need?

Miller is loving her new school. She refers to the teachers as her "ladies" pronounced "yadies." She yoves her yadies. She is learning a lot, doing crafts, and coming home telling us about stories and songs. For example, "Mommy, I read  Little Red Hen. Eveybody say NO, NO NO!" She is also obsessed with Old MacDonald at the moment, which they must sing at school. We are also enjoying getting little snippets of things that happen during the day and quotes from the teachers, such as "Miss P (name withheld for her privacy-ha ha) says, I don't care if you cry!" Her poor teachers don't know what a little Repeat they have on their hands. Friday, she said, "Mommy, B (a boy at school) went tee tee out his hiny ALL over that brown carpet. Mrs. P say NO, NO!" I love it! We also get reports on who bit whom and who went to time out. We are so glad that she likes her new school.

Big Girl Bed

Guess who got a big girl bed for her 2nd birthday? We surprised Miller after her nap with a new big girl room on the day of her actual birthday (her party was the day before.) She was so excited and has never tried to get out of her of her bed at night or at nap time. Hooray!

Birthday Breakfast. 

(When you are allergic to eggs, birthday breakfast is pretty much exactly like all              

other breakfast- a cereal bar, but with a birthday hat.)

So excited about her new bed.

Testing it out. 

 

2nd Birthday

Well, it has only been about a month and a half since Miller's second birthday and I am just now getting around to blogging about it. I haven't written thank-you cards yet either, so if you are waiting one one, I am sorry. Things have been a little crazy around here. Anyway, Miller loved her party. She had a great time and behaved amazingly well for an over-stimulated 2 year old. Here are some pics.

Birthday Girl with Daddy.

Sometimes mommy needs two glasses of wine....at the same time. 

Family birthday pic. 

Blowing out her candles. 

Eating yogurt instead of the egg-free cake mommy made. 

(Which kind of tasted like cornbread, so I don't really blame her.)

Memama, Miller and E Baby. 

There were actual people at her party, but we don't seem to have a whole lot of pictures of them. Plus, I never know if other people want me to put their kids on my blog. I did not get a group shot though-maybe next year. 

Zoo Day

Miller and I went to the zoo right before we both started back to school. She had the best time and wanted to look at every animal for 20 minutes each. She also really wanted them all to "come over here!" She also had fun on the playground inside the zoo until some a-hole kid kept making her hit her head on the little animals that you ride on while his parents just sat there and did nothing. Seriously. Who lets their kid just beat up another kid while they watch contentedly from their chairs? Anyway,  here are some pics.

Little Gym

Miller did Little Gym this summer and she loved it. She also loved watching the Olympic gymnastics with mommy. We may have a little gymnast in the making. I am going to go out on a limb and say that her build will be more suited to gymnastics than ballet, so I think it would be a good choice. Here are some pictures of  Miller in action at the LG.