Picking Pumpkins!

 Pumpkin Patch

This month was looking like it was going to be a little sad because we found out that Chris works every Saturday this month! We had been planning to go to a pumpkin patch and maybe a straw maze as our season's activities, but since I watch three kids every weekday and Chris's Saturdays were now busy, it was looking sad. We had a random day off this week and took the chance to go to a pumpkin patch only 15 minutes away and found a wonderful time! It wasn't very busy because it was a weekday (lucky!) and we rode a hayride out to the fields where we all found the perfect pumpkins. There was a play area with a hay maze for the girls and a hill, some picture areas, and a few other kids they made friends with.  

Claire

I cannot believe how cute she looks in a sweater! I wish I got a better picture before they got covered in hay, but it is what it is and we set up our pumpkins on the counter so the girls would stop playing with them and asking to decorate because that is for next weekend. She looks cute in so many things but some of the outfits are just too cute to handle and it is so fun to dress my girls to match. I've gotten more people asking if they are twins this week, and it's not going to stop me because matching is too much fun. I'm working on her reading skills and they seem to be forming nicely because she will start to sound out the letters then is quiet for a second then tells me what it is! She likes the flashcards we use because they have the picture of the word she is reading that I uncover when she gets it right and then she pretends to be the bus or cat or bug. She spotted our first tomato from our plant this past week and either it grew really fast or we didn't notice it for a few days!

Shay

Even though she is becoming a picky eater and gained an annoying habit of putting too much food in her mouth then has to work at chewing it up and swallowing. She does it with almost everything but likes to show me and then show me that she has swallowed afterward too. I think she likes when I get excited for her because she will do that when she is drawing a picture and has done one more line than the last time she showed me. As much fun as it is to have her learn and grow, she is outgrowing the good cuddling that she used to do! Way too wiggly now, which reminds me, they have fun doing the wiggle dance before prayer times that was started a couple weeks ago!