October 22nd

We carved our pumpkins tonight! All 3 of my boys are giant chicken babies and made me scoop out all the guts. The little boys picked their pumpkin faces from their favorite Halloween book, "Boo!". Harrison's is angry face and Lincoln's is toothy face. Millie was supposed to sit in hers for pictures, but she is too big, so her face is upsidedown, as the eyeballs were her leg holes LOL

October 16th

This is why I pay people to take pictures of all 4. One at a time? Sure, all together? Impossible

81 Days Old!

October 15th

When you think of going to the Pumpkin Patch, you think fall. Jackets, boots, hot cider...not in Hawaii. In Hawaii you are red, hot and sweaty and need cold water. It's not quite the experience I had growing up, but they were still excited to pick out their pumpkins. Poor Millie looked like two face last night, she was laying in the tula and half of her face was burnt. We were all drenched in sweat by the time we got back to the car, but the boys took a good nap after that.

Link picked this one, because he wanted it a little bit green.

Ethan didn't pick this one, he ended up getting a smaller, oranger one.

This kid lol.

Last year, he loved this pit of tiny pumpkins. This year, he was disgusted.

October 31

Happy Halloween!

Ethan's class had a field trip to a dairy farm/pumpkin patch. It was pretty cute, but smelly. There was a sweet little baby calf that you could pet, but E refused to touch it. We went through a cornmaze and got to pick a little pumpkin that I'm going to cook up and make some pumpkin bread out of tomorrow.
This was my group, the little girl is Ethan's girlfriend this year, Katelyn.

Notice anything .... odd ... about this scarecrow???

We carved our pumpkin when we got home...he has been wanting to make a puking one all year, so we finally did it. It turned out funny.


We ended up going to the local church fall Fest - he got to play games and get lots of candy. Then we came home and trick or treated around the block - his bag was overflowing when we got home!

October 23 & 24

We went to our third (and last) pumpkin patch of the season yesterday. Ethan was up sick part of the night, but he felt up to going out to lunch (didn't eat anything) and to the pumpkin patch. He slept most of the ride home, so of course he was up too late last night and didn't want to get up this morning. He stayed home from school today, as he still said his tummy hurt and he didn't really eat much all day. He had half a bowl of noodles for dinner, hoping for a big breakfast tomorrow. He has a 4 day week this week, so I'd hate him to miss any more of it.

His favorite thing at Papa's Pumpkin Patch yesterday was the pumpkin launcher. He was trying to get them through a small hole out in the field, to win a pumpkin. He got close, but didn't make it.Today he laid in bed most of the day, but when he started feeling a bit better we made this cool shrinky dink Halloween tree :) He loves shrinky dinks!

October 16

I was woken up at 6:30 this morning by Mr. Ethan begging me to go carve his pumpkin. I managed to fend him off until 8:30 (Spongebob was on, his latest "favorite" show), but then we got up and carved it. Of course, he won't do any of the actual work because he doesn't like the guts, but he did touch them this year, which is something I guess. He drew on the face too, and popped out the pieces.

Then we had all day to do crafts, so we decided to make jar pumpkins. I did the modge podging and E painted the stems, and drew the faces (which I cut out). I think they turned out super cute!

October 15

Today we went with Ethan's schoolmate, Ty and his mom and brother to the pumpkin patch. E had a ton of fun, it was their first out of school playdate (and Ethan's first playdate ever with a boy! LOL). The pumpkin patch was pretty cool, they had a whole barn full of corn with diggers, and a slide. They had a zipline, corn maze, petting farm, hay ride to pick your own pumpkin, and an awesome pumpkin catapult.

Ethan's favorite thing was the zipline, he went FLYING down it and just wanted to go again and again!

The corn barn, too funny that the "slide" is like this giant cardboard tube. Ethan said a giant must have run out of paper towel.

October 10, 2011

Yes, I made him climb in there with all the pumpkins that I had no intention of buying ~ They were sooo expensive!!

His favorite "pumpkin people" - Pokemon!

We had a great time in Kenosha this weekend seeing everyone! I can't believe that it was 80*, I so was NOT prepared for that weather at all! October is supposed to be long sleeves and pants, not shorts and short sleeves! What the heck?!

Saturday we went to the pumpkin farm with Nana, William & Aunt Sam. Ethan had a blast even thought it was soooo busy. My favorite part was the cookies of course, Ethan loved the corn & straw mazes. They also had this super cool built in bouncing "pumpkin pillow" that looked totally neat, but Ethan said it wasn't fun....not sure why. He wanted to go in the Haunted Corn Maze, but we all know I'm a chicken and was not about to go in there with him. I'm pretty sure that he would have hated it as soon as he got in there anyways, or at least I'm going to keep telling myself that so I don't feel like such a mean mom, depriving him of all that scariness and all.

In the corn maze ~ They are pretending to be lost & scared. lol

The pumpkin bouncy thing, you can sort of see them in the middle. I dropped my camera last week and now the zoom doesn't work :( I am horrible with cameras!!

October 30

Pumpkins & silly boys!!

All started out ok....
Until mean Nana put pumpkin goop in his hands lol... But they still turned out cute :) Daddy helped Ethan make Mario!


And here are their scary faces! Boo!