Scott is on fall break the first couple days of this week so we decided to take advantage of the great weather and go down to Brown County for the day. We spent a couple hours in the morning walking around Nashville, then headed over to the park for a picnic lunch (accompanied by swarms of bees), some playground time for Ethan, and a hike. We walked a 1.5 mile trail around Ogle Lake and it was beautiful! The kids did great. Ethan walked the most of the time while Alli rode on Dad's back. After about 2/3 of the trail, Ethan was getting pretty worn out, so I carried Alli in the backpack and Ethan rode on Dad's shoulders.
Scott's self portriat of himself and a sleeping Alli!
In other news, last night was Alli's first night in her own room! It has taken much longer than anticipated to get Alli out of our room, but so far so good. Our original plan was to have Alli share a room with Ethan, but plans change. Ethan is so great about staying in his bed (sometimes for hours) even when he is not asleep we really did not want to mess that up, so we took down our spare bed and moved Alli's crib into the guest/computer room...so it is now Alli's/computer room. We knew she would have to share a room, we just didn't plan on her sharing with the computer! She's also not crawling yet, but she is definetly on the move! Alli has her ways of getting around. When on her belly she can scoot backwards and turn in all directions and she is REALLY REALLY close to crawling on all fours. When she is sitting she can scoot forward pretty easily...something that has been termed "butt walking" by family members. And this morning, when Scott got Alli out of bed she was sitting up! It is the first time she has gotten herself from lying down to sitting!
