I feel like our life isn't really interesting enough to really have enough to update weekly.  But I'm going to attempt it anyway.

Some highlights of this week:

• we went to visit Great Grandma Cress this weekend.  We sure enjoyed seeing her.  Emmett enjoyed drawing on almost every page of her notebook and matching her animal cards.  Addy enjoyed crawling around and crying for mama.
• Emmett had a fever and was complaining about his ear Wednesday night and Thursday.  But after using his ear drops for a few days, it seems to have cleared up.  Yay for avoiding a visit to the dr.
• It has been windy and gloomy here lately.  Fall/winter is definitely here.  The nice thing about the wind though is it blows all the leaves in our front yard away, so we haven't had to rake it yet!  We will be tackling the back yard leaves tomorrow though.
• Emmett pulled EVERY SINGLE TOY out in Addy's room the other day.  Both kids were in there playing while I was wrapping up making dinner, and when I came in afterwards, Emmett had pulled all the toys out of the bins in the closet.  Then, while I was nursing Addy, he proceeded to empty out the toy box too.  But he did help me clean it back up.  Boys will be boys, I guess.
• Addy is much closer to actual crawling.  She now does a mix of crawling and inchworming. I'm trying to keep an eye on her to see if she "limps" while crawling...at her last visit the dr. mentioned that she has asymmetrical skin folds that could indicate hip dysplasia and he wanted to keep an eye on it to see if she had any other signs as well.  I'm really hoping her hips are fine.
• Emmett did really well at his speech visitation on Friday (the one where they come to our house). The lady was pretty surprised that he sat for 24 minutes straight doing what she wanted him to do.  He has definitely been progressing...I'm not sure if it's because he's more used to her now, if he's more used to what she expects when she comes, if he's more comfortable/relaxed because we're more settled now (with the addition of Addy, moving, etc), or what, but it has been awesome to see.
• We tried pumpkin chili (I made some tweaks based on comments below the actual recipe).  And it was pretty dang good.  Although it gets kind of old after eating it for 3+ days...
• We tried a cabbage casserole recipe (with a few slight modifications).  It was really good.  I'm looking forward to more leftovers tomorrow.

Well, I'm feeling too lazy at the moment to upload pics from my phone, but I'll try to add some more next week.