Fall Festival 2018

We went to the same fall festival/pumpkin patch we went to last year, and had almost as much fun.  There wasn't the same bouncy obstacle course that baby loved some much, but we still enjoyed ourselves.

Here's baby in the petting zoo with a very friendly goat.  It would stick it's head out of the grid for the kids to pet, and sometimes stretch it's neck backwards in a crazy cartoon fashion. 

First snow fall

He just gets me with that damned bear peeking out of his back pack.

He helped daddy clean off our cars and then wanted to help the community by cleaning off our neighboor's cars. 

A giant pile of steaming...

arborist wood chips

We signed up with a website that coordinates with local arborists to bring their woodchips to people like me that want to use them in the garden.  Supposedly, chips make great compost, slowly releasing nutrients into the soil while making a good home for good bugs and suppressing weeds.

It took a couple weeks for the load to come, but when it did, the truck filled my driveway.  I moved some of it myself to the back yard, but there was still a pile at least the size of my car left over.  Andrew hired some of our favorite teenagers to come by and help move the rest.  

I think baby bear looks like an 80's preteen scifi movie boy, with the outfit, backpack, and face mask.  So cute.  Watching him bustle around make me smile for the first time in a long time.

Apple picking

I went onto a neighborhood website to see if anyone had any fruit trees they were willing to have a stranger denude, and found two.  The first house had little green apples, and I got two giant buckets.  Later in the week, baby, hubby and I went to another home and picked 4 giant buckets.

So I've been canning like crazy to prepare for the coming apocalypse. 

I'm cute!!

Arch and I went to a giant consignment sale over the weekend.  They had people dressed as his favorite cartoon characters, so naturally we had to invite a few friends along.  Yes, they all had costumes, we did not.  But we got to borrow a lab coat, like one of the villains in the cartoon has, and he also wore his little hat and carried around one of the cars.  When it came to see the people, however, he became a whirling dirvish of panic.

We got a back pack that was actually his size at the sale, and he has decided it is a perfect toy holder. 

Here he is, saying "Cute!" I got it on video but have no clue how to download it.

A childhood milestone.

two skinned knees.

5 years and chicken

Together five years this week.  the celebration came in two waves: a little dinner and fun times at home, and then on the Saturday:

A hike in a Jefferson County open space.

Baby insisted on taking turns pushing the stroller, both fun and frustrating for us.

We went to dinner at a local hot spot for fried chicken.  They have a fun play area in the front with a tree house, a jungle gyms, a picture you can join in on, and best of all a digging machine.

One lever pulls the bucket up and down, while the other pulls the whole arm up.  The second arm turned out to be the favorite part.  Arch cried out with amazement when he realized it.  He was very upset when, after he'd walked away to play with Daddy, another small boy took a turn.