Oh, October!

What I really wanted to do was blog individually about each of the following fun things we did in October. Well, as it turns out, newborns are about as much fans of blogging as two-year-olds are, which amounts to a slowly dying blog of no-post sadness. So, apart from springing forth a new life, here are some things we were up to in October...

Awaiting William Flint's birth, we took Lyla to Nash Farm in Grapevine and met Grandma there. It was particularly warm for a Fallish event, but that's Texas for ya! We drank a lot of Dr. Pepper, saw a ginormous cow (among other farmy animals) visited a small petting zoo (and petted said farmy animals), watched kids ride ponies (because we didn't want to wait in the longest line ever for Lyla to ride one, herself), posed on old tractors, galloped around on stick-horsies and watered an adorable veggie garden with a small tin watering can.

We had lots of fun taking all sorts of Fallish pictures in Grandpap's backyard...

A week after his birth, we went to the Pumpkin Farm by Grandma's house in Colleyville. We met up with Aunt Shannon and the girls to pick pumpkins, pose for pictures, visit some more farmy animals, get lost in a corn maze, eat kettle corn and play on some more old tractors, trucks and even a small playground. Lyla had tons of fun here with her cousins and family. And since it's across from Grandma's neighborhood, she continues to talk about the pumpkin place every time we go to Grandma's, which is almost every day!

We carved our pumpkins together a few days later. I was really hoping my girl would get elbow-deep into some guts with me, but she wasn't so much a fan. She decided which shapes each of the jack-o-lanterns' eyes, nose and mouth should be, though. She also found it amusing to sort pumpkin seeds from pumpkin guts so that I could cook them (yum!). Mostly, though, she wanted to "put fire in there" and "put it in the baffroom!" having recalled the pumpkin in the bathroom from the previous year, where Mommy must've placed it to show her its face in the pitch dark. What I anticipated to be an entertaining activity ended up being just that: Mommy entertaining Lyla with carving, scooping, cutting, and following all other directions regarding lighting and placement of the pumpkins.

We celebrated Halloween by trick-or-treating in Aunt Shannon's neighborhood. Lyla dressed as Jessie, the cowgirl from Toy Story, and Flint dressed appropriately as a cow. Her cow. Sort of. We were lucky to have Grandma with us to enjoy our sweet kiddos, and PapPap not far back at Shannon's house to order some much needed non-sugary food item (pizza) for dinner. Lyla took to trick-or-treating like a seasoned pro this year, and had no trouble knocking, holding out her pumpkin bucket and saying sweetly, "trick or treat." She followed each treat receipt with a pleasant, "Thank you. Happy Halloween," which made me tear up at every house. Every. Single. House. Thank you, hormones.

And that closes out October.

I'd better get on the ball. November is already halfway over! Ack!

(This post took approximately 1.5 weeks to do! Seriously.)

Oh yeah, and visit my Picasa for the rest of the insane amount of pictures...