Happy Halloween!

From Our Little Monster! 

Last Year

 For his first Halloween Joey was a baby mouse.  Every mouse needs a piece of cheese.

Joey played the part very well for a two month old and spent a large portion of the night "eating" his cheese.

 Mommy and Daddy dressed up as Buffalo Bill and Bufallo Jill :o).

We trick or treated at our family's houses and Joey collected his spoils.

By the end he was pooped.

Halloween is hard on a baby!

Enjoying his treasures.

For the Love of Fall

Little bits of heaven :o)

This just may be my favorite picture of Joey yet.



Happy Fall!

Joey's Voice

Look Dad :o)

*Notice the exicted running to the camera at the end to watch himself on the video?

Our boy is no stranger to cameras :o)*

Definitions Part 2

Ba-oon: noun
1.  A bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration
Baaw: noun
1. A round toy that bounces

Saa: noun
1. a covering designed to warm one's foot

Shair: noun
1. A seat, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back
2. A tool for climbing
Sou: noun
1. Something that goes on one's foot after a saa
2. A fun thing to carry around the house

Boom Boom:
1. What J declares when he falls down
2. What J say when he bangs objects together

Voom Voooom
1. A noise made while playing with toy vehicles
2. What J calls motorcycles

Apple Orchard

Fallapalooza Part II : Sunday

On Sunday morning we started our day with a fittingly fall-like breakfast complete with pumpkin muffins and  pumpkin cream cheese on our bagels :o)

Joey, of course, approved.

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We put our Halloween decorations up. 

Well, basically, my mom and Joe put the decorations up and I manned the baby.

Perks of the job :o).

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After nap time we headed here.

This place delivered and was everything I hoped it would be.

I can't wait to do this every year.  I so badly want to create family traditions for our kids.

Things they can both look back upon and look forward to.

Stunning.

 We rode a tractor up into the field.  J liked this but I think he will love it next year.

They had apple cider on the tractor and there were bees everywhere.  It kind of freaked me out.

Joey got apple cider in his sippy cup though so he was thrilled.  Let's just say, he consumed more than a child

 should .. no surprise :o)

We finished up with a little picnic consisting of apple cider and apple cider doughnuts. Sooo yummy!

I love Fall.  I love our little family. I love celebrating little things and making them into big things for Joey.

I hope our kids grow up thinking Fallapalooza is a real thing :o).

Fallapalooza Part 1 : Saturday

Our work schedules aren't terrible, but sometimes the fact that Joe works every other weekend makes it hard to fit in all the stuff we want to do as a family.  Still, I was determined to fit in all of our Fall celebrations and if that meant it all had to happen in one weekend .. then we were willing to do it.

And Fallapalooza was born. Yes, we're dorks. 

 

On Saturday night, after a trip to Toys R Us and other fun morning happenings,  we went to the pumpkin patch at Roba's Farm.

Joey got juice in a pumpkin sippy and a cookie. He's 14 months old and I'm pretty sure this was his first cookie.  Big time stuff!

It was pretty cold out and I don't think we'll be going back at night again.  It was an error in judgement on my part, but we had fun anyway.

I just love this picture of our "small pumpkin" looking for his pumpkin.

Our rule is that you have to be able to carry -- or at least pick  up ;o) -- your own pumkin so Joey still shops in the small pumpkin patch :o).

 It's really hard to get a one year old to stand still in front of the things that show how tall you are!

One of the hazards of taking your baby to the pumpkin patch at night is that he will be the only baby and you'll have about 10,000 heart attacks as the bigger kids zoom past him and jump over him.  My momma bear almost came out like five times.

 Basically, the reason we came so late this year is that I read online about the sundown marshmellow roast and thought it sounds like just about the best thing ever.  It wasn't really the best thing ever .. I was picturing guitar players singing kumbaya which did not come to be.  It was still cute though.

 And Joey did like his marshmellow :o)

Gotta love Fall <3