We had quite the eventful weekend in Durham – it’s going to take me all week just to hit all the highlights on the blog.  After a delicious Cracker Barrel breakfast Saturday morning, we took our annual pumpkin patch trip to Ganyard Hill Farm.  This time, we dragged Grandpa Lipps and Laura along so got to bring home 5 pumpkins to decorate the lawn.  We rode a hayride, fed the goats, played in the corn pit, got lost in the corn maze, and lamented the fact Uncle Dylan got stuck in Madison due to the Chicago fires on Friday and missed out on the fun.  Laura even came home with corn in her underwear.  We already can’t wait for next year.

Watching Kaya develop her language skills has been fascinating – she now makes great full sentences, but sometimes she merges languages. Her current favorite sentence is “Me quiere mas + noun in English” which translates to “ME want more + noun in English.”  Laura even made her a meme.

Congrats to my co-fellow Emily on her upcoming nuptials.  I had the interesting pleasure of DDing a night out with the girls on Saturday to Raleigh to celebrate one of her last nights of single womanhood (I suppose you can call it a bachelorette party).  Look at these happy women.

Laura, Kaya and I went for a short hike this weekend – I’m proud to say I can still carry Kaya on my back for a ways before I pass out get tired.

Aunt Laura may be rubbing off on Kaya.

Kaya can fly too!

We spent the weekend celebrating the end of my first year of fellowship with the other fellows in my class.  We all rented a house for three nights in Wrightsville Beach and attempted to block out our memories of acute leukemia and TTP with 90’s rap music.  Hooray for never being a first year fellow again!

Getting a little end of summer sprayground action in before it starts getting cold.  God I love summer.

We had a nice trip to the Gardens Sunday – it was packed with families and picnics. Kaya may have a future in ultimate frisbee in college.

I worked over Labor Day Weekend and am quite jealous that Kaya, Tommy and Laura went to the Carolina Tiger Rescue and saw tigers. Turns out that lots of tigers live in residential houses in the US, and end up needing to be rescued at some point. And they come here.  Or something like that.  I would know more if I had gotten to go.