Thanks to mom, I've discovered a new passion for fall: apple picking! Hanging out with friends, enjoying the warm autumn air and eating lots and lots of tasty apples. Nothing beats it! We've gone 3 times now and each time was with different friends. We did go to the same place twice but there was a good reason for it: bouncy house and pumpkins! I've never been in a bouncy house before and I was pretty nervous when I first went in. But I was lucky that my friend, Quinn, was there to show me how they work.
I've never jumped so high before in my whole life! And the best part about this place is that they have a tractor disguised as a train that you ride on to get to the apples. So much fun to pretend you're on a train!
So what are we doing with all those apples that we picked? Eating them, of course! Emma even loves apples. Mom used some to make this delicious stuff called apple butter. Wow that stuff is good, even right out of the jar! Mom mentioned something about making an apple pie, but I really hope she makes more apple butter since we're running low!
This weekend, mom and dad took me to the greatest event ever: Touch A Truck Day. There were trucks everywhere!! Dump trucks, fire trucks, ambulances, back hoes, even lawn mowers! There were even official people there that helped you in and out of the trucks. I just loved hanging out and seeing all the cool trucks. They even let you beep the horn on the dump truck! Afterwards, there were balloons for all the kids and I even saw a couple of my friends. But it was really hot out so we went home and cooled off before we went to my friend, Quinn's, birthday party. Nothing like chips, cake and ice cream on a warm afternoon!
I love tomatoes. And I love my friends. But do I love sharing my tomatoes with my friends? You bet!! I was a bit hesitant at first, but Mom said that we have a ton of tomatoes in the backyard so there is plenty to share. So during snack time today, I decided to share some with my cool leopard that uncle Frank and aunt Jodie gave me when I was really little. He's kind of big so I haven't been able to play with him until I got bigger. And since I'm a giant now, he's just the right size. We had a great conversation while we ate and turns out he loves tomatoes just as much as I do. I can tell that we are going to be good friends for a very long time!
Mom and I refuse to acknowledge that summer is almost over. We both love the warm weather too much to let it go! I always have such a great time hanging out at the beach and playing at the playground. We recently met some friends at a beach in 
Boy, Labor Day weekend sure was fun! It was so much fun, I took yesterday off to just relax and recover from my busy weekend. Our friends, the Drobots, drove here (all the way from Michigan!) and stayed with us for a few days. They have 2 big kids, Mitchell and Rylee, and I loved watching and hanging out with them. We all went to the beach one day (it sure was hot that day!). We also went to the aquarium (Rylee made up a cool song about 70-year-old Myrtle the turtle) while dad and his friend, Scott, went for a tour at the Sam Adams brewery. I think we had much more fun than them since we ended our outing with cookies at Faneuil Hall. The Drobots even went to a Red Sox game and but they lost. But we went out for barbeque that night and Mitchell and Rylee drowned their sorrows in waffles (who knew you could have waffles for dinner??).