Oscar 8 months

Here are a two more videos of Oscar's new favorite things to do. He loves crawling around with his toys in his mouth, and he loves blowing raspberries. Both are cute, but the later isn't as cute when he does it while eating...

Craven Farm

We love taking our annual trek to the Craven Farm in Snohomish. The drive is beautiful, and it is by far the best free pumpkin patch we've ever been to. So of course we couldn't wait to introduce Oscar to this tradition and see if he would like all the pumpkins. The jury is still out...

Oscar was a bit overwhelmed and sleep deprived, but he was a sport and let us prop him in a wheel barrow and up against some pumpkins :)

Love that kid. Even when he won't smile he's the cutest thing ever!

Getting Festive For Harvest

Hands down, Harvest and Autumn is my favorite time of year. I love the change in the air, bringing chill at night. I love the pending holiday season of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the end of the year. Canning and putting up a bunch of farm fresh produce for the winter season. Hosting our annual open house with a huge spread of soups, stews, chowder and chili. I've always loved this time of year. 

Friends of ours recently brought us over a gorgeous potted Mum for our new home entry. It's the perfect backdrop to copious amounts of the seasonal gourd.

Our new front entry has a deck, benches and landing area. Perfect to enhance with gourds and pumpkins.

Accenting our potted shrubs.

Getting the front entry ready with decor.

Our front entry Mum.

Getting all the Halloween decor out inside as well.

Our new Room & Board Black leather chair and ottoman in our formal living room. A perfect accent to our newly painted white fireplace. The interior is all coming together.

My favorite harvest luminaries we've had for years.

The cast iron witch Holly and I both adore. This has been in our home during the Halloween season for years as well. I love our annual traditions. Picked up the Orange and Black glass tray in Venice, Italy on vacation a few years ago.

Haunted House and Marimekko bowls make a nice accent to our formal living shelving.

Milk glass cake plates, and our pewter pumpkin tureen. Perfect for our new hutch in our formal dining area.

My Mom's antique cake plate we inherited, after she passed away. Makes a great year round addition in our dining room to remind me of her presence and influence in my life.

The new black walnut dining table and contrasting white Eames chairs. Love our white soup tureen and soup bowls we break out this time of year as well.

This time of year is not complete without the 4qt Staub Orange cast iron dutch oven. Holly picked this up for me two years ago. I love the way this looks on our stove, as well as front and center on our informal kitchen table. 

Musically Inclined

Oscar loves squeaking his giraffe. I think he kind of looks like he's playing the bag pipes :)

Oscar + Ball + Sophie + Food

Oscar loves his toys, two of which are his green ball and his Giraffe named Sophie. We see a lot of this all day long :) 

    

 Oscar loving his rice cereal and pears.

 Oscar not sure he likes pears straight. Possible a bit tart :)

His two teeth. So cute!