Ah Fall! I love you sooo much! I love the cooler weather and the beauty of the leaves changing. I love pumpkin recipes and orchard visits! I love all things Fall! So far this Fall has proved to be quite eventful for the Ferguson household.
First, we recently have begun making the switch from using disposable diapers to cloth diapers. I purchased a few from a friend of mine at an EXTREMELY low price and decided to give them a try on Ella. The kind we decided on are Bumgenius One Size pocket diapers. We are using an older version, the 3.0. I only purchased 4 from my friend and around 12 inserts so I started out with only using them on Ella when we were at home. I have to say I found it to be much less complicated than I had imagined and recently purchased 20 diapers and 40 inserts online. We plan on cloth diapering Jack as well so now we are pretty much set :) I will be posting more on my cloth diapering experiences/mistakes soon.
Secondly, we went to a marriage conference. Sean and I attended multiple student conferences in our teenage years but we have never went to a marriage conference before. We weren't quite sure what to expect, but we went with out entire small group which ended up being 16 people. The conference was Real Marriage which is put on by Mark Driscoll and his wife Grace. Sean and I really enjoyed it. Mark was incredibly funny and to the point. I took a ridiculous amount of notes :) My favorite snippit of advice from the conference was that our standard of beauty should be our spouse. In a world where we are bombarded with magazines and television shows that tell us how we are supposed to look it was a refreshing concept to think that Sean measures everyone else and their beauty against mine. Which right now must mean that Sean only finds extremely pregnant, hormonal, frizzy haired, crazy people screaming that they are hot all the time absolutely gorgeous :) Seriously though, if you have never invested in a marriage conference I highly recommend Real Marriage. If you can't go to the conference get the book!
Lastly, the kids are growing like crazy. Ella is talking in little sentences now and it is getting a lot easier to understand her when she is talking. I mean don't get me wrong she still speaks in that kind of elvish toddler jibber jabber most of the time, but when I was giving her a bath the other day she did turn over on her belly and say "Mommy get my butt"... I know, I know it's adorable... Jack is measuring 2 weeks ahead. I had my last doctor appointment on Thursday and my only complaint was that I feel huge. I mean literally I keep getting the " aren't you about to pop" question any time we go into public places. So when he measured my belly he said we would need to do another ultrasound to possibly move up my due date. I'm excited because 3rd trimester ultrasounds are sooo fun!!! It is incredible how much of the baby you can see on those things! Jack is still heads up 7 up for right now. Hoping and praying that he has his daddy's flip turn skills and will go into the right position soon. I DO NOT want a C-section!
Well that is our update for now. Fall is shaping up to be quite a busy season for us this year and I know that Winter is not going to calm down any either. For now we are just trying to take it in strides and spend as much time with Ella as possible!
