Halloween 2019

It's been a snowy week, making this October the snowiest this town has seen in over 20 years.  School was closed two days this week, and we took the opportunity to go sledding.  In the last couple years, the boy has had a aversion to riding in the sled.  This year, though, he had the best time.

What I thought would be a 20 minute outing lasted more like 90 minutes.  Some friends from church joined us after we'd been there some time, and it gave the kid a second wind.

We went to church for the annual chili cook off and trunk-or-treat.  We dressed as our favorite characters from Zootopia.

Fall Festival 2019

My sister came to visit.  And as usual, I hardly took any pictures.  But we did go to the pumpkin patch/fall festival that we've got to the past few years.  This year the boy took a minor interest in the climbing wall.

The farm also has giant tubs of dried corn for kids to dig in.  Little kids, of course, think it's amazing, but there were even a few older (think tween/early teens) also hanging out there, sitting, gossiping, and occasionally burying their heads into the corn.  Tweens are weird.
Our boy was having a grand time flipping around, and jumping around.  Once in a while, he'd protest that corn was getting into his pants.  At the end of the day, he had quite a handful down there!

Food storage of a different sort

Andrew got these buckets from a customer a few months ago.  We had the idea that they might make good storage containers, food storage perhaps.  The boy thinks they're pretty neat drums, blocks, whatever.  The buckets are pretty big.  Big enough to fit half a boy, it turns out.