Pumpkin Patch

When I was growing up, one of my favorite fall activities was going to the pumpkin patch. So when I heard that there was a local pumpkin patch here in Temple I knew I wanted to bring the kids. It was much bigger than the "pumpkin patch" at the park in Houston, but it still couldn't compare to the pumpkin patches in Utah (hay mazes, fields of pumpkins etc) it was more a "Christmas tree farm with a pumpkin display." The place is called the "Silo Christmas Tree Farm" after all, so I shouldn't have been surprised. Regardless, we still had a great time.

Christine did NOT like feeding the goats. We paid three tickets to receive our little cup of feed, entered the feeding area, and the goats came rushing towards us. Christine freaked out and begged to be picked up. She was okay with Daddy feeding the goats while she watched. Daddy got quite the work out.

I love this picture. You can just see Jacob leaning over as far as he can trying to see the blue snow cone, figuring out how do I get that goodness in me?! 

The pumpkin patch had a little tractor train that Christine was hesitant about at first. All the kids rode in the train while the parents walked alongside.

Finally, we got to pick out a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch...errr bales of hay. Christine chose this one "because it smelled good and had some orange in it."

Hopefully we will carve it for Halloween in just a week in a half! (I say hopefully because I bought a small pumpkin from the grocery store that I had to throw out this week because it molded. sad day)

September

Jeff has this weekend off. The full weekend. Saturday AND Sunday. As we sat together on the couch this morning drinking hot chocolate, life just felt perfect.

September feels forever away and I hardly took any photos last month, so this post will be a little sparse.

We are trying to teach Jacob how to drink from a bottle. The pediatrician says if Jacob is hungry enough he will drink from a bottle. But I think Jacob knows that Mommy has milk and he's willing to hold out for the good stuff.

Christine loved helping hold the bottle. She is starting to realize that having a little brother can be quite a nuisance. In our house there is a lot of "noooooooo Jacob don't eat my dolly" "nooooooo Jacob don't touch my dress" "mooooooooom he's kicking me" "that's MY blanket" ...I'm afraid this is just the beginning.

Christine is sitting next to me right now and overheard me telling Jeff what I just wrote and Christine would like to add "when we go to Target Mommy you need to bring the becco (baby carrier) so Jacob won't kick me. babies don't kick people. they just kick the floor"   She really hates when Jacob is in his car seat in the grocery cart and she is sitting in front seat of the cart and he kicks her.

In September Jacob started to sit up on his own, babble, roll over multiple times, turn around 360 degrees...

... and get up on his hands and knees and rock back and forth

Spoiler alert for October's post... yes he's crawling.  He's only 5 months old. 

Why are my children so impatient?

Happy Happy Birthday

Last week my little girl turned 3 years old. It's kinda crazy.

She has been looking forward to September since June when we celebrated Jeff's birthday. There were even tantrums that went like this: "Is it MY birthday yet???? Is it September? I want it to be September!!!!"

A few days before her birthday, I took her to Dollar Tree after her dance class to pick out some party supplies. She picked out birthday hats, a purple table cloth, princess napkins, and cupcake paper plates and streamers.

Of course Tangie Bear came to the birthday party, and one of Christine's best friends in the whole world came all the way from Houston- POOH BEAR!

GiGi came too, she caught a ride with Pooh Bear.

 I made Christine a little felt house that she was pretty excited about

  She loved her little party. We really enjoyed getting to spend Christine's special day with GiGi.

 She may have gotten a little spoiled.

The day after her birthday, she woke up from her nap crying, and told me that we forgot to unwrap one of her presents, and where was it? I think she dreamed there were more presents. Luckily Nana and Papa had sent some packages in the mail and the birthday fun could continue.

The Month of August

Time for the summary of the month of August over at the Hamaker's.

August was HOT HOT HOT. Holy smokies it was hot! Everything that had managed to stay alive in July died in August. At least in Houston even when it's hot in the summer everything is very green and lush, and there are big exciting tropical storms that poor buckets of water in mere minutes. Not here. I think I have forgotten what a real rain storm looks like.

Christine's favorite toys right now are leggos and little people. Christine build these little cars for her people. I had assumed that Jeff had taught her how to make them, but when I asked Jeff, he said no. Christine is always surprising me with her creativity.
Right now ALL the stuffed animals have their own blanket. The Hello Kitty Babies share this green one that was originally made for Jacob.

A highlight of this month was getting a "big girl bed" for Christine. She finally moved out of the crib and into a twin bed. For a little while she was sleeping on the crib mattress on the floor, but I finally made up my mind about what bed to buy and bought it! Now the crib is free for Jacob to move into (because he is almost too big for the bassinet! he is so long!) Christine LOVES her big girl bed. I was REALLY afraid she was going to drop her nap time if she was able to just play with all her toys and not be confined the crib (one of the BIG reasons why she has stayed in a crib for so long-- both she and I NEED nap time!!!) but she is still napping (hooray!!!) and stays on her bed until I come get her in the morning.

Christine asks me every morning what day it is. She loves talking about what happens on Monday, Tuesday, etc.  Monday is the day we make "cupcakes" ("Muffin Monday", except she calls muffins cupcakes) and Tuesdays and Fridays are very exciting because those are trash days. haha not sure why it's so fun to help mommy take out the trash.

As you can see in our little garden in the background the cantaloupe were still alive at this point, and the grass was still green. I was hoping our unplanned cantaloupe would produce a melon or two, sigh.

Jacob is doing well. He's very strong. After learning how to roll over, he learned very quickly how to hold his head up high. Now he can roll around several times to get where he wants to go. I'm afraid he is going to learn to crawl early. I know he is going to be quite the trouble maker around here!

Jacob

I'm was getting ready to write my August summary post (it's coming!) and I found this post I had started. I was just going to hit delete, but then I thought, eh they are cute photos of Jacob. I think I will hit "publish" instead of delete. So here you go, Jacob age 3 months (July) notice how much hair he has in these photos then compare them to the photos from Christine's birthday in September.