Yes, this is Halloween. Yes, I know it's December.

Jake acts like a pirate a lot.
"I'm a pirate... arrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
So it was the natural choice for his costume.

Granna loves to come in for Halloween.

Our church has a HUGE carnival every year for Halloween. The state fair happens to be just before Halloween, so they are able to get a bunch of the rides that were at the fair. Jake was big enough to ride this year and LOVED it!

First he rode the motorcycles.

He waved at us EVERY time he went by!

When we were at the fair, Jake saw the roller coaster and kept asking to ride "the train". We didn't do it that day, but since it was free at our church, we tried it, and he also loved it.

Then it got cold, so we coated up. And he rode in the Jeeps.

They went really fast and he was having a grand old time.

Again with the waving every time.

Then he touched a sheep.

Having fun is exhausting!

A better picture of the whole get-up.
P.S. Those pretend-a-boots were from my brother's Prince Philip (Sleeping Beauty) costume, circa 1986. Thanks Mom for keeping everything!

Posted in: Halloween, Jake on Sunday, November 27, 2011 at at 10:39 PM 1 comments    

The third and final pumpkin patch... I'm almost caught up to November. On the last day of November.

We headed out to our third pumpkin patch
when my mom came for Halloween.

Getting ready to head out to the patch.

Yes. I was there too.

Clownin'.

Checking out the patch as we rolled up to it on the "hay" ride.

Scoping out the pumpkins.

I was going to let Jake pick this one out, but they had some
super cool pumpkins, so I did the choosing. I really like
the one I found. I had to pick up probably 40 before I found
one that wasn't rotten. This was a real deal patch. Not like those
"stack-of-pumpkins-lined-up-in-a-row" patches.

He really enjoyed this building/fort
that they had in the play area.

Posted in: Halloween, Jake on at at 10:19 PM 0 comments    

Still trying to catch up... We went to a pumpkin patch with some friends from church.

Having fun on the hay ride.
He was up front watching the tractor.

Riding the "Cow Train"

Playing at the haystack.

Checking out the tunnel through the haystack.

Heading out to pick out a pumpkin.

I like this one!

Or maybe this one.

He spent about twenty minutes just sitting there
sorting pumpkins into big and small.
He started doing that all by himself.

Then an airplane went over.

Posted in: Halloween, Jake on at at 8:58 PM 0 comments    

We went to three pumpkin patches this year. Three.
The first one was way back at the end of September, when my mom came in town . We decided to do one then and another when she came back in October. Here are a few pics from the first one.

First, the animals.

Then the corn pit.

With a stop to watch the tractor.

This is the same corn pit he loved playing in last year.

Next the hay ride.

Hey, tractor driver! Watch where you're going!

Then hay maze.

These are almost exactly the same
pictures from last year.

Checking out the giant pumpkins.

Seriously. This is way better than the
dried-out-dead-at-the-end-of-October
pictures that we had last year.

Just chillin' on a pumpkin.

Jogging through the patch.

My mom trying to get him to recreate one of
our favorite pictures from last year:

(last year)

Healing a pumpkin?

Photo op chair!

He was saying "It's huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!"

Two biggins.

Last, the goats.
Should I look low?

Or should I look high?

Posers.

Shirt pumpkin.

Posted in: Halloween, Jake on Monday, November 07, 2011 at at 6:07 PM 1 comments