A barrage of pictures containing a baby in a sling and knit caps!

Well, it seems that fall has finally arrived in our neck of the woods. I'm overjoyed as it's my favorite season, but slightly alarmed that I seemed to completely ignore summer in its entirety. (Probably because I spent most of it at home, basking in the air conditioning, fanning my pregnant belly and trying not to sneeze for fear of blood pressure spikes.) Ready or not, Cora's first fall is here!

We've been doing a lot of bopping around town in the ring sling recently. Last week we welcomed in the fall season by going apple picking with Little C's aunts, uncle, and cousin (who I guess you could call "slightly bigger C"). It was a great time and a flashback to one of my favorite dates with Sean before we were married and we came home with about 25,000 apples.

She slept through most of it, and as it turns out we were spectacularly over-bundled for the occasion, as our 50 degree day crept toward the 80s and we were trudging up and down hills with big sacks of apples. 

Last Monday Cora woke up with a rash on her face, and her reflux was still making her pretty uncomfortable, so we headed to the pediatrician's office. As it turns out, the rash is just a baby rash with some baby acne sprinkled in. To battle the reflux, the doctor prescribed a dairy-free and soy-free diet for me to follow for a few weeks. It's been about a week and I really think it has been helping her! The past two nights she slept for stretches of 5 hours! I'm pretty sure she was just nursing to soothe herself from her tummy troubles. 

We're so glad that we've potentially figured out why she was so uncomfortable, but this diet is hard! The dairy isn't so bad, but there is soy in EVERYTHING! 

So we headed off to Whole Foods yesterday. I have to say, for people with allergies, Whole Foods is fantastic. They list every ingredient in a very accessible place on their prepared food, and they stock a lot of products that were designed to avoid the common allergens (peanuts, milk, soy, tree nuts, eggs, wheat..etc). After a week of being a little sad and hungry about my food options, and tiring of almond milk and life cereal for breakfast every morning, I was in heaven! Obviously all of their produce is "safe" for me, but a lot of their deli items were as well! Also, our adorable baby turned heads in the store with her cute bear hat (Thanks, cousin Max!). We had one little boy come up to us, explaining that he thought she was a dog from far away because of her hat. 

Where's the section for "Baby's first trip to Whole Foods" in the baby book?

Again, our baby slept like a champ! Here are a couple of other ways that she spent the weekend:

Tummy time with daddy and the cats.

 Having her hand eaten by Daddy.

Hanging out with Daddy and Aunt Nan! (Plus her grandparents, we forgot to get a picture of them this time!)

Ok, so this looks like she spent the who weekend having a bunch of time interacting with Sean and just sleeping on me, but I swear I interact with my child! We had a great weekend and she was sad to see Daddy go back to work this morning.