Fall Festival

I may slowly be turning into my mother-in-law. She is the queen of holiday decorations. I'm in charge of decorations for Chuck's school's Fall Festival. By tomorrow, I will have 16 bales of hay and 30 pumpkins on my back patio waiting for November 9th to roll around so I can start setting up! Chuck might be the happiest kid in the world when he sees it!

Of course MK is helping out by letting us borrow some fake mums and scarecrows.

Jack

I carved the pumpkin today. Chuck was racing against himself outside, Dr. was sleeping, and I was sweating. I don't remember carving being so hard. Actually I think my parents probably always cut our design. I was so scared I was going chop a finger off!

Dinosaur Arms

The kid went to school with a mohawk (not intentional) and comes home with dinosaur arms.

Picasso

Hopefully we get to carve tomorrow when daddy comes home. For today we are just painting because I don't like the idea of a pregnant woman and a two year old with a knife!

Dress rehearsal

I bought Chuck a pirate costume right when they put them out. I figured I had a good 3-4 weeks to convince him to be a pirate. I maybe should have bought the next size up but the kid is excited about it!

We might go to a few houses for trick or treating and then pass out candy or we may go to Chuck's teacher's house and trick or treat with them.

Pumpkin Problems

Not sure how to describe the pumpkin patch. Chuck sang Old McDonald the whole way there. We got there and he cried the entire hayride and refused to pick out a pumpkin (maybe because he was busy crying). We finally stopped crying once "Old McDonald" gave us free food to feed the goats.

I think it was one of those moments mothers have A LOT. Where you sacrifice and do something for your child because you think it will make them so happy and it really just blows up in your face and makes you want to run and hide in your car just for some sanity.

I did get a few pictures. We were definitely in the back roads of Texas. There is a picture of a noncompliant 2 year old in the middle of a pumpkin patch, a somewhat happier two year old sitting on a tractor, and of course a picture feeding the goats and pigs.

Pumpkin Patch

Well folks, we are going to brave the cold and go to the pumpkin patch since it is the last weekend. Chuck found daddy's hat and said he is ready to go to "Old McDonald had a Farm".

Hay ride, pumpkins, and animal are in our near future!