Fall in Maine

Happy Autumn! We have been enjoying beautiful fall weather here in Maine and taking advantage by getting out and exploring our surroundings. Last weekend we climbed Bradbury Mountain, the foilage was incredible.
We also went apple picking and discovered Ollie can eat a whole apple with very little assistance. Although he seems to manage to get more juice on the top of his head than in his mouth.
Oliver dressed up as a duck for Halloween this year. He has a few children's books call Ollie the Duck so we thought it appropriate for his costume.

Hope all is well.

Ben, Renee and Oliver

savannah and lucy

Savannah is absolutely loving her role as big sister, giving Lucy kisses all the time and always worrying about where Lucy is and what she is doing. Yesterday she got to hold her little sister and just wanted to rock with her.....

Ryan likes to sing

Last night Ryan decided he'd like to sing for the world (or at least he let me record his (or really Jon's) rendition of Joy to the World). Jon's been singing this to Ryan since he was a baby and Ryan loves to sing it now too!

Here's one of Kelsey's first smiles -- she seems to be giving them away pretty freely now, when she's in a good mood.

A recent photo of the two of them doing one of their favorite things (and Jon's too) ---

Ryan sure does love his little sister and Kelsey is pretty fond of him too.

savannah's first solo steps

Savannah has finally decided that she is ready to do some walking on her own....and I say some, because she still needs a lot of encouragement to do it and needs a purpose or destination...she's not ready to just walk around all over the place yet. We are getting closer, though, and we were all so excited last week when she finally took these first steps on her own and didn't cry about it! :)

We have a new member in the Kramer family, Kelsey Jo Kramer, born to Jon, Tara and Ryan. She arrived April 28, weighed 9lbs. 9 ozs and was 22.5 inches log. All are doing well.