Fall Crepes

It turns out that the lines are a lot shorter at the crepe truck now that the weather has turned cool! We joined our friends J, Y, C, & baby E there for a delicious crepe brunch and live music.

The place (Johnny's) looks a little different with the sun shades gone and straw on the ground! And we discovered a new "addition" inside -- a toasty warm fireplace. Unfortunately, James and Matthew were a little too curious about it, and wanted to explore it up close. Of course, we didn't let them; we figured the heat would dissuade them before they actually got burned, but we didn't want to take the chance that we were wrong about that!

James was happy to go explore the pumpkins instead.

I think James has joined Matthew in saying "brother" -- a couple of times now he's pointed at Matthew and said "buh buh." And this morning, Matthew saw James walking out with Mike (holding Mike's hands), and he said, "brother!" and ran over and gave James a hug. (James didn't quite know what to make of this sudden show of affection.)

One of Matthew's other recent words is guitar ("tar"). We got a new alphabet book that uses guitar for "g", and Mattie pointed right at it and said "tar". He's also very good at finding stars and saying star ("shar"), although that word would be hard to understand if he weren't pointing at a star at the time.

Mattie has also started talking in long sentences of his own private language -- it's really cute!  I wonder if he actually understands what he's saying?