Pumpkin Patch Take 2

We headed back to the Pumpkin Patch this week with Eric along as well.  

Of course there was once again lots of jumping, climbing and playing....

 Alex braved the "corn train" - these little cars pulled by a tractor.  It was his first time riding on it and there are some cars that hold adults and children so we told him that Daddy could ride with him, he said he wanted to go all by himself and he LOVED it!

 Searching for the perfect pumpkin...

 Getting our pumpkin ready to carve...(Brodie woke up, so we are not finished yet.....)

 Not so sure about the messy part...

One Big Random Long Blog

Catching up on what we have been up too....

Brodie's favorite play spot -

We have been enjoying some AMAZING Fall weather - sunny and warm!  We spent the weekend outside.  Both boys LOVE being outside.

Alex is Eric's little shadow and must do everything that he does....Daddy takes his shirt off and you can be sure that 2 seconds later Alex is shedding his...

 Washing the Cars...Brodie loved the water...

Alex found a bug...

We went to our local Train Museum last week...here are a few shots...
Alex LOVES pretending to be a fireman lately so he was very excited about this area at the museum...

And finally, from the mouth of Alex...He manages to make me laugh several times a day with how his brain works.  Here are a couple of recent conversations/comments...

When giving me a hug goodnight...
Me:  "Wow! That was a huge hug"
Alex:  "Did I squeeze your head off?"
Me:  "Not quite, but it was a really big hug"
Alex:  "Did I just crack your neck a little bit??"

At dinner the other night...
Alex: "Mommy let's talk about old people stuff tonight" :)
(When we walk at night he is always saying "Excuse me Momma what are you and Daddy talking about?" and sometimes Eric will say "just some old people stuff).

He also likes to ask if he can "stay up really early tonight" :).

Alex is big into imaginative play lately. Here are a few videos of Alex.   He likes to watch the Crocodile Hunter with Eric sometimes, so on this particular day he was pretending to hunt lions....

The videos are longer, so I had to post them on You Tube.  Here are the links....
http://youtu.be/pClYJmJO8Eg

The scary man he talks about in this one is a Halloween monster that he saw at Lowes - one of those that is activated when you walk close to it - pretty much terrified the poor child!
http://youtu.be/6sakmjuKeZU

 http://youtu.be/ZKea2mY-ZSA

Mommy Exists...

Eric always gives me a hard time that I am never in any pictures with the boys.  First of all I usually am taking the pictures and I also have this uncanny ability to look drunk or stoned in all of my pictures - but here is one Eric took over the weekend...preview of a blog to come...

Rainy Day Fun

Alex's new favorite Rainy Day activity - building with mini marshmallows and toothpicks.  He played with them for an hour straight the first time I got them out - even while being on a sugar high from eating half of the bag while we played....

Pumpkin Patch

We made our first visit to the pumpkin patch this year.  I bought several discount passes, so we will be going again this month before they expire.  It was a beautiful afternoon so Rachel and I decided to take the kids to Tate Farms for an afternoon/evening of fun....

Alex LOVED the big jumping pillow this year - it is where they spent the majority of their time and he kept asking to go back and jump so more...

 Then we headed out on the hay ride to the pumpkin patch.  The boys wanted big huge pumpkins but we convinced them to wait until next time when the daddies went with us...

 There is so much to do at the farm - I did not get pictures of everything.  Here they are climbing on big huge tires..they also went on slides, jumped in bins of corn, jumped in a big wagon full of hay, petted bunnies ("Alex please don't pick the bunny up by its ears")....

Brodie was there too - he was happy as can be in the stroller watching everything or in the Bjorn during the tractor ride.