Pumpkin Patch

I got these adorable pumpkin hoodies on chewy.com for Momo and Noah and now we have a little pumpkin patch of our own.

Speaking of pumpkins, we'll be carving 7 over the weekend. That's 7 for me, Yangkyu, Momo, Noah and our three across the rainbow bridge, or who we like to call the Sunflower Gang - Piri, Bartles and Lady. We actually plan on carving a sunflower to represent them and while it looks perfect in my head, I just hope it turns out looking like a tall sunflower. We picked out jack o lantern carving patterns for the rest of us and I just can't wait to have it out in the backyard like we do every year (even though our backyard is currently a hot mess right now and decorating it hasn't even crossed my mind. It literally looks like a big dump).

I can't believe this will be our last weekend of our break before we have guest dogs again (our next weekend break comes right before Thanksgiving). We hope to take Noah and Momo out to a short outing. We don't get to do this a lot with them and so it's been harder to establish an outing routine with them. We're also trying to figure out what's best for Noah as he isn't the biggest fan of riding inside cars and so we don't want to stress him out by taking him out all the time. I realized that with Piri he was the happiest when he was going places with us and so we adjusted our lives to do everything with him. With Noah it is the complete opposite and so we'll just have to condition ourselves to say it's ok to leave him home alone and even take just Momo with us so that she can start to get used to going places without Noah (she is so dependent on him though and does so much better when he is by her side). Definitely a tricky puzzle for us to figure out as a family but we'll find something that works for all of us.

Lately we have been terrible about working out, cooking at home and including vegan meals and so we hope to jump start all that starting this weekend. Fingers crossed it doesn't fall off our plates again.

Happy weekend!