It's Fall, Y'all!

Gosh I love Fall. The weather has finally turned cooler here, the leaves are changing, we’ve got some much needed rain, and the Autumn light hitting the hills is just incredible. It’s all so refreshing after facing summer like temperatures into late October. Yuck. Another great thing about Fall is the IHMC Fall festival. IHMC stands for ‘Iron Horse Mothers’ Club’which I joined shortly after moving here. It’s where I met many of my momma friends and Forest’s playmates. There was even a playgroup specifically for babies born in the Fall/Winter of 2013 so that was a perfect fit and we have met for playdates almost weekly since the babies were 3 months old. 

Play groups are probably my favorite thing about this moms’ club but they also put on a Fall Festival every November that is absolutely perfect for the toddler/preschooler set. They have train rides, face painting, small-scale carnival rides, fun jumps and all-inclusive carnival food too.

It really is a top notch event and I’ve been super impressed for the past two years that we’ve gone. This past Saturday we were watching F’s buddy Bryce (whom we met through IHMC) and took him along for the ride. 

It was kind of fun to imagine what life with 2 would be like. It was surprisingly easier than we thought, especially since we just played man on man coverage the whole time. Jon was assigned to Bryce (by far the better listener of the two!) while I took Forest. 

Most of the time the boys wanted to do the same things but when Forest was gung ho about the fun jump and Bryce wanted to go on the trains again we just split up our efforts. 

I could see how that would get tricky if I had them both on my own though! God bless you, mommas with 2+ kids! 

Unfortunately, the timing of the festival was precipitously close to both boys’ naptimes so we ran into some overtired tantrums towards the end (by Forest, not Bryce) and had to call it a day. The good thing about this carnival being geared towards the under 5 set  is that an hour was plenty of time to get to ride all the rides and do all the activities plus grab a special snack before leaving. It was a great outing which made putting down two toddlers for synchronized naps pretty effortless! 

How was your weekend?