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September has not turned out to be a transitional month from summer to fall in Minneapolis – it went straight into fall. No complaints here though… we love our sweaters and enjoy drinking coffee on cool mornings. Also Tom is a little less sweaty after his bike ride into work. Before we settled into our new fall way of doing things we took a trip to Denver to celebrate our friend Laura’s marriage and see our good friend the Dow’s. Staying with the Dow’s, Asher had a great time with Huckleberry, the newest arrival to the Dow family.

Our fall way of doing things has also brought on school for Tom. He’s really enjoying being in class again and working towards his licensure as an elementary school teacher in Minnesota. Theresa is also working again. She’s networking with some great folks around the country to represent a friend and mentor of ours. She’s promoting Doug’s new book Church in the Inventive Age for the publisher and booking events for him to speak about. Working 10 hours with Asher makes for unique lots of funny interruptions.

We both feel Asher has changed the most this past month than any other time in his 7 months of life. He’s scooting around in the floor, mastering the army crawl and his personality has really come out. He loves laughing and making others laugh, he’s very social and likes to be around people and he’s making new little discoveries every day. It’s even amazing to see how he gets frustrated when he can’t figure something out or his mouth hurts from his teeth. He’s very determined. We’ll put a few more pictures in here – including our trip to the Twins game for Tom’s birthday (thanks Hans!)

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