Fall fair

October sees a big celebration of Fall and also is the run up to Halloween. It is a very traditional family activity to go apple picking and also to a pumpkin patch to pick your pumpkin. So we all decided to head to a local fall fair. It was a great afternoon out. They had a live band which Ethan loved, he got to go on a tractor ride, we ate donuts and picked a pumpkin. Here are some photos from the afternoon. 

Lake Placid

Last week we took a trip to Lake Placid for a holiday. It's a 5hr drive in upstate NY. It also coincided with Ethan's second birthday. Here are some of the photos from our trip.

Beautiful drive:

View from our room

First kayak ride

Selfie

Enjoying one of his birthday presents 

Relaxing in the library

The easiest way to get around the hotel.

Ethan's first day at Nursery

Ethan started nursery this week. I've signed him up for two mornings a week at mamaroneck Community Nursery School. It's quite common out here for toddlers to join a '2s program' at nursery school. It's not something I was initially keen on but with our impending arrival I realised I may need a couple of mornings to focus on the baby.

Here is Ethan on his first day with his new school bag, the school bag is provided by the school thus why it is so big!

Pregnancy progress

So, I've passed the 30 week mark now and things are progressing nicely.

I've been having weekly progesterone shots since 17 weeks and these will continue until 37 weeks.

As well as the standard first three scans I've been having fortnightly cervix scans at 24,26,28 and 30 weeks. They've been happy throughout and today have told me I don't need any more cervix scans.

And in the past week we've also engaged our doula. She will attend the birth with us and provide support to us to hopefully help us achieve an intervention free, natural birth. We've appointed Julie and Kharis from Beautiful births doulas (http://www.beautifulbirthsdoulas.com) and whoever is on call will attend with us.

So all things are progressing nicely and hopefully we'll have a full term natural birth!

Muscoot Farm

Today we went to Muscoot Farm, a free farm that is a 35m drive upstate. Farms are not as plentiful in this area as they are in the UK. We went with a new friend, another Brit, and her little girl Elsie.

Here are some photos from our trip.

Sals pizzeria block party

Our favourite pizzeria threw a block party on Sunday to celebrate their 50th anniversary. We made a trip as wanted 50c a slice pizza. Unfortuanately the queues were huge and on a hot day we didn't feel like queuing. However we managed to get Ethan a hot dog and stopped for ice cream on the way home so all was not lost!

Greenburgh Nature Centre

Yesterday Ethan and I were, at short notice, at a loose end in the afternoon. Coupled with nap being over by 12 it looked like a long afternoon. So we decided to go on an adventure, somewhere new and headed to a local nature reserve. Here are some photos of the fun we had.

The turtle that freaked Ethan out (it was pretty big!)

Checking out the animals ( less scary than the turtle, no personal space violation!)

Selfie

Story time woodland walk 

The slide on the 5-12yo playground that he climbed straight to the top of and went down without second thought (whilst Mummy paniced!) 

Stone throwing provides endless entertainment 

And finally after an afternoon in the sun mummy was too tired and uninspired to cook so we went to the Diner for dinner.