Pumpkins, Muffins and Munchkins

Well, it's Nov. 1st.

We now have:

1 week until Matt's 29th birthday,

4 weeks until Thanksgiving, 

8 weeks until Christmas, 

10 weeks until Brandon's 2nd Birthday,
...And 13 weeks until this baby girl is due! 

Yikes! 

Something tells me the next three months are going to fly by at warp speed. 

Brandon has been with us for 3 months now! 

It seems like forever! It feels like he's always been here, and hard to remember what life was like before Cheerios, diapers and nap time. 

But we sure love every minute!

We've been to Disneyland a lot lately and Brandon is completely enjoying every trip!

 

In honor of Fall, we visited the Irvine Park Pumpkin Patch last month with our close friends and their 3 kids... Too much fun! 

The hay maze was a hit, (and it was free, which is always a huge help).

 

Brandon and I have also spent a lot of time making healthy gluten free pumpkin muffins and cookies.

He's responding very well to gluten free food and less cheese. He never gets sugary foods, and that's always a healthy help. 

He does love natural sugary foods like apples and bananas though, so those are always a fun treat.
 

I'm almost 28 weeks pregnant now, and still attempting to stay active and eat healthy. 

It's a little hard being back at work part time since my job involves so much physical work... I just want to be lazy the next day and keep my feet up. Which is completely impossible with a toddler. So good thing I have him, or I'd be a major couch potato! 

 I definitely feel so much better when I'm on my Paleo diet, but I know this baby-girl needs the whole grains so I'll throw those in occasionally too. Then of course somehow  there's always weekend pizza... That's just a baaaad idea! 

In the battle between crappy fast food and heart burn, my heart burn wins big, every time. That's enough to keep healthier food for me in our fridge for sure! 

Plus Paleo cooking is so much fun when you have to get creative since you can't use regular flour, butter or sugar!

Delicious!! 

(Healthy, delicious, fun food!)

 

 We had a fun night taking Brandon trick-or-treating to 3 houses last night. 

He started out in a hilarious monkey outfit, but couldn't walk in it, so we changed to "Cowboy" last minute. He was too cute since he matched Daddy... And I barely squeezed into my Minion shirt that I bought 3 weeks ago... Dang! that bump is gettin' big! 

All in all, it's been a great start to Fall!

 

Oh! And Brandon's adoption social worker came by the other day for his monthly visit... 

She told me that she is going to attempt to push our adoption papers forward beginning now! This means we don't have to wait until the end of his 6 month probation with us to start papers!

 By starting the process now, hopefully we will be heading to our final Adoption court dates in mid Feb to March instead of during next summer! 

God's got a plan, we're just here for the ride!