Fall Days on the Farm

Now that Fall is here we have spent a couple of weekends visiting some of the local farm festivals. They all follow the same format - lots of little kids running around, petting animals, picking out pumpkins, going on wagon rides, etc. Abbie really likes it and has been asking to go to the farm again this coming weekend. Assuming that there is decent weather, it is definitely a good family activity.

With Halloween quickly approaching, the pressure is on to get our two big pumpkins carved this weekend. We did a small pumpkin a few weeks ago - a test run to determine whether I had the skills to attempt a larger pumpkin. It went pretty well, but of course, the poor thing is already rotting and molding on the retaining wall.

Abbie requested a beetle costume this year, which is actually hard to find. We suggested a ladybug instead, with the assurance that a ladybug was "a special kind of beetle." This seems to have satisfied her and we now have ladybug costume ready to go (picture likely forthcoming).

There has been big excitement in the neighborhood because a neighbor a few blocks down the street has very elaborate decorations in his yard - giant spiders, vampires, skulls, ghosts, tombstones, body parts sticking out of the dirt, etc. Abbie is pretty entertained by it and requests to go see it almost every day. "It's not really spooky because it's not really real," she assures us. :)