Pumpkin Carving

Some friendly competition motivated us to carve a pumpkin last night. They are having a contest at daycare on Friday and another at our BCOA fall festival on Saturday. We may create a separate entry for the one on Saturday, but this is what we created for Friday.

Fair Time Again

Wow. It has been about a year or so since I started the blog. It was time for the Austin County Fair again. Mick and Ike played hookie again, and this year they got Kristy to do the same. This is a picture from last year's parade:
And the 2007 parade:

Dewberry Farm....but no dewberries?!

On Sunday, we went to Dewberry Farm in Brookshire with the Rosebuds group. There was tons to do and we had lots of fun, but there were no dewberries there.

They also had a pumpkin patch where you could choose your own pumpkin, but we didn't do that. It would have cramped our style too much to have to lug around a pumpkin or interupt our fun to put it in the car.

Ike got to pet a rabbit and feed corn to a turkey. That turkey pecked the corn right from his fingers! Late in the day, Ike found the jumping pillow and jumped himself out for about 30 minutes.

We missed out on the corn maze because there was just SO much to do that we didn't get to it. It was about 90 degrees that day, and late in the afternoon, a storm brewed (as you can see from the pic with Ike jumping) so we decided we'd had all the fun we could stand that day. We'll definitely have to go back another time!

While the cat's away...

While Ike was off running around with Grandma and Grandpa on Sunday, Aggie took advantage of the opportunity to play with Ike's tube. He calls it his "cube". Reminds me of Popoids from when I was young. Isn't she just adorable? And doesn't she still appear bald in pictures?!

Halloween Preparedness Week

Yesterday Ike helped Grandma and Grandpa put up the Halloween blowups. He helped rake leaves and was Grandpa's helper. The spider is a new edition this year.

Earlier in the week, Grandma got out all of her Halloween decorations. She loves the noisy, scary ones, and I've never seen Ike leave Grandma's house quite so fast as he did Friday night! On the way home, he said "I don't want to go back to Grandma's house anymore. Those things scare me!" When asked if he wanted to go with Grandma on Sunday (usually a no-brainer), Ike asked, "Did she put those things away?" Grandma ended up putting away a cackling witch and turning some others around and now Ike is happy to visit her again.