October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween!

The cutest dog dracula, pirates, baby pumpkin, fairy princess, turtle and dog pumpkin you have ever seen!

October 30, 2009

Halloween Eve. The perfect time for roasted pumpkin seeds and pumpkin cookies!

I made these myself! I helped mix the ingredients, use the cookie cutter, frost and sprinkle!

Cheers!

October 17, 2009

Trace and Grandpa grew us awesome pumpkins this year, but we decided to get a really, really big pumpkin from a pumpkin patch too. I had so much fun picking out pumpkins!

Although I tried my hardest, Mom and Dad just wouldn't let me romp around in the muddy pumpkin fields. I made a mad dash at one point and as soon as I hit that coveted muddy patch I fell to my knees and surrendered to the mud!

Hay bales!

Finding and holding on to the perfect pumpkin is really quite a challenge.

For example, do you notice the two tone pumpkin I've found here? I toted that pumpkin around with me EVERYWHERE for days following our trip for fear that someone might try to take it!

The owner showed me how to use the scale. Whoa, did we get some big pumpkins. They weighed almost as much as me!

The owner was so nice that he threw in my little two toned pumpkin for free. Can you believe that?!? He might go out of business with that kind of give away!

All-in-all I say we made a pretty good haul!

October 16, 2009

Trace and Grandpa grew the family pumpkins this year at the cabin! Thank you so much Trace and Grandpa! Check out the pure joy I got from Trace and Grandpa's pumpkins!

Intense concentration.

Discovery of pumpkin seeds!

Practicing my scooping technique.

Smiles, smiles, and more smiles....

Seeds flying in my hair!

Daddy's face as he realizes that the pumpkins hat (i.e. stem) has broken off!

Back to smiles.

What the heck are you doing?

Trying raw pumpkin seeds. Watch out, I like them!

More seeds.

More smiles.

Trying some of the pulp this time.

Amazed by Daddy's knife skills.

Telling Daddy what to do.

Like father, like son.

Facial expressions.

Going for the pumpkin meat this time.

All four of us say "cheese!"

The lighting ceremony.

Ta da!

October 8, 2009

Who needs toys when there's cornbread around?

October 6, 2009

This is a first for my blog, but I'm going to make a plug for something. I LOVE the Children's Museum and can't recommend it enough. Mommy can even take me there by herself at almost 9 months pregnant and not leave completely exhausted because there is very little for me to get into trouble with.

Even though it's a bit of a hike to get to, it's so totally worth it that Mom bought us a membership and we have been several times already! Plus, the place is incredibly clean. If you live in the area and have younger children, it's totally worth checking out!

Here are a bunch of photos from a trip there with both Mom and Dad. This doesn't even come close to showing all the rooms and activities they have.

I honed my small motor skills while building a fort with sticks, connectors, and burlap.

I learned all about gears,

shadow puppets,

huge bubbles,

boat racing/water currents,

manually operated conveyor belts,

and pretending!

You can't see it, but there is a tad pole river next to the fish tank that I had tons of fun splashing in!

Caves to explore!

Peek-a-boo!

(Pretend) Ice fishing!

Building an ice castle!

Rope and slides!

Tunnels to climb through.

Periodically they have playtime in one of the lobby-type areas! They play music, pull out all sorts of sensory and large motor skill toys, and volunteers blow bubbles for us to chase! They also have story times and animal petting throughout the day.

Faster Daddy!

Fun with scarves!

Bounce! Bounce!

Catch!

Pedal.

There is so much more that we didn't get to in this trip! You can make your own thunder storm, go shopping in the kid-size grocery store, make dinner in the kid-size restaurant kitchen, create your own music videos, and much more!