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Charlotte has a new winter hat that Nana made for her. It’s a little big, but we’ve got a lot of cold months ahead…

Charlotte has a new toy–this little red wagon that she can push around. She hasn’t figured out how to turn it around yet, though.

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It’s getting harder to take pictures of Charlotte. She really likes to play with the camera, so she makes a beeline for whoever’s got it. We are ending up with a lot of closeups.

Charlotte and Brian went apple picking last weekend and got some huge apples.

Here are some action shots of Charlotte trying to escape from her little counter seat. The first time she did it, a few weeks ago, she started crawling across the counter before I even had time to grab her. Even with the straps tight, she is able to stand up. She seems to be doing a little better staying put in it to eat this week. We went back to the high chair for a few days, but she really hates being in that. The key seems to be having her really hungry when we put her in the seat, and she seems to stand up mostly when she’s done eating now.

We also think she might have been eating badly because she was teething. We can definitely see two and maybe three teeth coming through on top, and she is eating well again. 

We went to Chicago and Indianapolis for a long weekend to go to my friend Shalon’s baby shower and visit Brian’s mom and extended family in Indy. It was a busy weekend with lots of time in the car, and Charlotte visited two zoos! We took a lot of pictures at the Indianapolis Zoo.

The giraffes, monkeys and chickens were big hits. Charlotte was a little apprehensive about the rhinos, though.

Checking out the monkeys:

We took Charlotte for a hike today in the baby hiking backpack, which we hadn’t used before. Charlotte had this concerned look on her face for most of the way. It was a pretty short hike, and it was another gorgeous fall day.

We stopped for a snack break. Charlotte has been enjoying gnawing on apple cores lately.

Yesterday we took the ferry to Georges Island, out in Boston Harbor, with my parents. It was a nice sunny fall day. The ferry ride is about half an hour and there are some great views of Boston from the boat. There’s a fort out on the island which we explored a little, and we hung out on the grass too. Charlotte had fun crawling around and also looking at Papa’s kite up in the air.

We finally have a functioning camera, and the power cord to download the pictures came in the mail today. These are from our weekend away last week–we went down to the Cape to stay at my aunt and uncle’s place for a long weekend. It was really nice, despite the bad weather the first day and a half.

Charlotte ate like a champ while we were there. Her favorite things lately are zucchini and any kind of beans. 

On our way home we stopped for a picnic.

Back in the car:

Charlotte is pulling herself up all over the house–tables, chairs, the toilet, her diaper trashcan, you name it. She also started charging right up the stairs to the third floor the other day, scaring the crap out of Mom and Dad. Brian spent most of last Sunday installing a gate at the top of the second floor stairs, and we need to get a few more, as well as anchor a bookshelf to the wall and finish putting together the more baby-friendly TV stand we got a few weeks ago. Charlotte is definitely wearing us out these days!