Great 8: Reasons I Love the Fall

In no particular order...

#1: Crunching leaves under my feet when I walk

#2: Surprisingly warm days - like unexpected gifts

#3: Jackets and blue jeans

#4: Peanuts and candy corn

#5: Honeycrisp apples

#6: Red and gold leaves standing out against bright blue skies

#7: Bundling up the baby on the way to the park, then peeling off layers on the walk home

#8: Picking out the perfect (plumply dumply) pumpkins

I had to edit this post because I forgot one of the key reasons I love the fall:

How could I forget Nebraska football???

Great 8: Shakespeare a la Baby

If Shakespeare decided to chronicle our experiences as brand-new parents, his works might sound something like this:

8. Love's Labour's Last-too-long

7. Twelfth-time-up-to-Night

6. Julius Sneezer: A royal baby's first cold

5. The Comedy of Errors

4. Much Ado about Napping

3. To Binky or Not to Binky

2. Taming of the Chew

And, of course...

1. Osmello

Great 8: Ways people tell me my baby is chubby

8.  "She's just a healthy breastfed baby." (My pediatrician's way of reassuring me)

7.  "You know it'll melt right off after she starts crawling and walking." 

6.  "Awwww... you don't feed her!" 

5.  "I wish my baby had cheeks like that!"

4.  "Look at those muscles!" (Popular with little kids)

3.   "She's healthy, isn't she?!" (The p.c. way to say it) 

2.  "What a chunk of love!"

And number 1, courtesy of a little boy at my church:

1.  "She's so cute!  Her hands and feet look like a professional wrestler!"