Finally!

Fall has arrived on the Third Coast at long last! It's been sweater weather for the past two days, and you know how happy that makes me. I mean, I'll still drink the pumpkin spice latte when it's 90 degrees outside, but it tastes much better when it's in the 50s. How crazy is it that I've had both the a/c on and the heat on in the past four days?

The cool weather inspired me to bake--I finally made those pumpkin bars with brown butter icing. Oh.Mah.Gawd. They are so good. The icing, in particular, is to die for. (And I'm not usually a frosting girl. But this? Is legendary.)

Thanks for all the nice wishes for TCP Toddler's birthday! The party went off without a hitch, even though we eventually ended up moving things indoors--the fact that it was eleventy billion degrees out made it a bit too warm for the birthday boy and the octegenarian great-grandparents in particular. But he had a blast with his cake and now my living room looks like FAO Schwartz exploded all over it. Now I need to finish up his (read: my) thank you notes. He's run out of his personalized note cards, so I'm in the market for some new ones. Once again, little boys get the shaft. I cannot tell you how many cute pink -n- green things I have seen for little girls, but the options are so much more limited for boys. Consider this my personal plea, all you crafty, Etsy types: Please make cute things for boys too!!! So far, here are my contenders:

Cute, but pricey, from Pen & Parchment:

And a new discovery (god bless google), Amy Adele, has some really cute ones:

I think I'm leaning toward the bugs from Amy Adele. But we really need to start working on this kid's penmanship so he can write his own notes!!