PUMPKINS!!

Time for our annual festive halloween pumpkins...

calvin had a good time this year actually helping us carve them (with safe cutters, of course) and also making his very own pumpkins with some pieces that you just pushed into the pumpkin to make faces. it was very fun...

when we were done, we had a lot of pumpkins to display on our front porch.

I don't know if you can tell from the pics, but cal's pumpkin actually has little blue glowing hands on either side of him... such a funny little addition!

Trick or Treat-ing

Today was the trick or treat day in clyde... of course, cal had to be in a pretty ornery mood, so it was interesting to say the least. But here are a few pics from the day...

Some times he would just straight up refuse to walk up to the houses (hey, no skin off my back, not like we NEED candy in the house)

and other times he would get angry and refuse to even walk in between the houses, and let me tell you, he is getting far too heavy for me to be carrying him all over the place! we went with the morgan's, grayson was dressed as a chicken...

He was a pretty cute little "dino," as he was calling himself. I believe it was actually supposed to be a dragon costume though. nonetheless... very cute

Favorite pasttime...

Just a vision of cal... in the process of his absolutely favorite pasttime.

We have a hard time getting him away from the crayons and coloring books sometimes. He loves to color so very much. Of course, he is also a big fan of breaking crayons and what not, but most of the time he is just coloring with them. I am getting a little tired of cleaning up crayon paper all over my floor, BUT, I wouldn't trade that for anything when he hands me his next masterpiece. I will have to post some pictures of some of his pieces of work on the blog in the future, and you can all see just what a good color-er he is really becoming.

Pumpkin Farm

Calvin's speech class took a trip to the pumpkin farm today... What an experience!

There were lots of farm animals there to feed and check out. There was even a goat enclosure where they would climb high ladders just to get their food! Calvin of course loved the pumpkins the very most. This time of year, that is all you will hear in the back seat of the car is "Look mama, pumpkins!" then he will proceed to (try) to count them all whenever we see them. In a typical 10 minute car ride, you may hear this proclamation at least 25 times... sometimes more!

Ah, to be the mother of a toddler, ain't it grand?!? We each got to pick out our very own pumpkin to take home with us, of course cal picked out his own and then proceeded to pick out mine as well...

They also handed out coloring books when we got done with our wagon ride back to the pumpkin patch, which cal was pretty ecstatic about.

Presents...

I am sure most of us can remember being little and getting something in the mail when it was least expected. Cal loves getting little surprises and the other day, he got a doozy from adam's aunt heidi and uncle john. they sent him his favorites... STICKERS!!! and some money for his piggy bank.




He was ecstatic to say the least! of course, he proceeded to stick smiley faces on every surface he could get his hands on... but he has such a good time doing it that I just don't have the heart to tell him not to!

What a sweet surprise, thanks aunt heidi and uncle john!

Unexpected visitors...

Lately, we have been seeing a lot of these little fellows in our garage. Of course, we have been working on the garage... insulating, and putting up walls and what not, so maybe we have simply been messing with their 'natural habitat' but they are still pretty interesting to us!

Cal refuses to get too close to them, but i think they are cute! (you know, in a buggy way)

We are pretty sure this one might be pregnant too... there is no way a regular mantis would have such a giant gut on it!