The Zorio Family: October 2021

September started with a Mommy-Daughter Date with me and Nora Kate. We went to the new Buff City Soap shop in town. Nora Kate loved taking her time smelling every single item in the store (I still can’t smell thanks to Covid, so I didn’t smell a thing), but according to her everything smelled SO GOOD! She picked a soap and a GIANT bath bomb to buy, then she got to paint her very own bath bomb.

Here she is painting her bath bomb!

I also took her to the nail salon to get a mani! She picked pink nails with butterflies on them.

Then, per her request, we went to a Casa Blanca Mexican restaurant where she ordered a Sprite, Cheese quesadilla, and cheese dip…all of her faves.

As I’ve continued increasing my mileage as I’m training for a marathon in December (eek!), I’ve had to get up earlier and earlier to start my runs in order to get in the necessary miles before the kids get up and John has to leave for work. This particular day the sunrise over our lake was BEAUTIFUL. I’m usually not one to stop mid run to take a picture, but this was just too pretty. The water reflected it beautifully too. The picture doesn’t really do it justice.

Carter, always a lover of numbers, came to me to tell me how the had developed a math problem to calculate how many bumps were on the ping pong paddle.

First Tennessee Game of the Football Season! We may be in Alabama, but we are wearing our ORANGE!

Soccer games have started and it’s HOT!

Pink cheeks!

We did a fire in the backyard and made s’mores. Our new fav way to make s’mores is with fudge stripe cookies that apparently taste like chocolate and graham crackers, then stick your roasted marshmallow in the middle!

One of the items on the kids’ Summer Fun List was to camp in the backyard, but it had been SO HOT all summer, so on the first coolish nights in September Dawson pitched the tents and the kids and John camped in the back yard.

Here they are cooking hot dogs on the fire before camping in the backyard.

Our backyard campsite.

I got to go with Dawson on a 5 mile hike with Dawson early one Saturday morning with his scout troop.

Not sure why my watch broke this into two separate runs, but I finally got back up to a 10 mile run which was my longest after having Covid. Hopefully I’m starting to get some energy back!

We went to our last Trash Panda game of the season. They caught a ball!

We love sitting on the berm

Clayton was the most excited about the ball we caught.

It was a Sunday so after the game the kids got to run the bases. You’ll notice Carter in the red hat, NK in the “I’m about to do a cartwheel position” and Dawson and Clayton behind her.

Yup, out of the ALLLL the kids who ran the bases our Cartwheel Queen was the only one who cartwheeled the bases haha!

We took Duke to Duke’s creek for a swim.

Nora Kate was excited to build the Lego Aquarium set she purchased with her bday gift card from Aunt Emily.

Clayton still requests selfies at school drop off.

Clayton has a very wiggly tooth, so we took a picture of his complete smile before it falls out….so far though, it’s still hanging in there.

Randomly we ended up with a night with no scouts and no soccer games…very rare, so we went out to dinner and we let the kids order dessert. It was a SCookie…a cookie in a skillet. They devoured it.