Almost caught up...

October has been dubbed "the month of visitors." ...and we love it!

Here'a sampling of what we've been up to....

CC, Vince, Stella and Joe doing their thing

Vince, Charlie-bear, Stella

We've ventured into the world of rice cereal for our BIG boy and I have a great helper....

2 weeks ago we had a "really full house" according to Stella. A small reunion of girls from my Cincinnati Bible study group got together at our house with their kids...Lauren and Rosalie, Emily and Ellie, Katie and Ava, as well as Gail and Kyle spent the day with us. We can't wait to see everyone again! Come back anytime!

Stella trying to make it all better for Rosalie

Katie and Ava

Gail and Kyle

Lauren and Emily

Katie, Liz, Gail

Charlie and Ellie

Stella and Ellie

We also got to see Grandma Bettcher and Great Aunt Sandy on their road trip down to FL. We're so glad that they stopped for a lunchtime visit!

LONG overdue...Stella's 1st day of preschool. She attends every Wednesday morning for about 3 hours and LOVES it! They've studied apples and shaped and pumpkins. Tomorrow is picture day! I can't wait to see how that turns out!

Grandpa Robert generously purchased a piano for us so that we could add even more music to our house. It's electronic, so that we can still play while naps are happening...note Stella's awesome headphones!

And our Charlie-bear...he's getting big. 4 months now and he weighed in at 15 lb. 15 oz.! He's 27 inches "tall." We keep marveling at his size and decided to do a comparison...at 4 months, our sweet Stella was 13 lb. 15 oz. and 25 1/2 inches tall. So this kid has her by 2 pounds and an inch and a half! He's giggling, rolling all over the place and trying to scoot around. We cheer him on, but I'm not sure I'm quite ready for him to be mobile yet! YIKES!

Yesterday morning we said "goodbye" to "Aunt" Amanda and her precious Bella. They took all the photos over the weekend so hopefully I can get some from them to put on here. We had a great visit with a trip to the zoo, the playground at the mall, and outing for just the moms while Nick took all 3 kids...it was great!

I'm pretty sure this is most of the photos we've taken lately. There will be more to come soon!