The Pumpkin Patch – Oct 16

We love to go to the Lee Farms pumpkin patch.  This year, my mom, Jake, Stacey, Kallie, Ethan, and Kelly all joined us for a great time!

 

going down the slide at the end of the corn maze

A bunch of silly animals, and Davis enjoying the piglets

James enjoying the ride in the bjorn, and all of us eating the YUMMY homemade donuts and cider

Top left to bottom right:  Shane going down the big Jack and Jill slide with Davis, and my mom going down with Davis on her lap and Landon next to her.  You can see from the pictures Landon getting progressively more and more scared until the last picture with his look of sheer terror on his face!  Poor guy!   (Davis went three times.)

     

a couple of family shots

 

  the boys with their chosen pumpkins

Why I haven’t been blogging:

I have gotten a bit behind on my blog.  In addition to the usual busy life of work, kids, housework, etc., I somehow had the crazy idea to make Landon and Davis’s costumes this year.  Although it was a lot of work, I actually enjoyed it.  The best part was seeing Landon and Davis wear them almost every day last week and run around the house yelling “Super Landon” and “Super Davis.”

  

The back with their capes, and the superheroes flying through the air.

Although I didn’t make one for James, he looked quite cute in the tiger costume Becky let us borrow:

For Halloween Eve, we all went to a Halloween party at our church.  It was a lot of fun, and they had someone there taking pictures of everyone dressed up.  Here is the Malan family all dressed up for Halloween:

More fall festivities to come!

We’re Going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo

Last Thursday, my sister-in-law Stacey and my mom drove up to visit for the weekend.  On Friday, we decided to make a trip to the zoo.   We all got in free with our membership, so it was definitely worth it!

Here we are with all of our gear!  And here’s a picture of us on the tractor in the farm area.

   

Mom held up all of the kids to see the elephants, and James got tired of his stroller and decided he liked the Bjorn better where he could see the animals better.

James may have been tired of the stroller, but Kallie and Davis both wanted a ride at the same time.  They did pretty good like this until Davis decided he’d had too many hugs from Kallie. 

                                         

Cute baby Ethan enjoying the zoo in his stroller!

 

 

Kallie was so cute and pointed out the zebras to Ethan!  We had a nice lunch on the grass at the zoo, and a picture of all of us minus mom in front of the zoo sign as we left.

 

After the zoo, my mom braved watching all five kids at once while Stacey and I made a trip to Ikea.  When we got home, James was asleep in his swing, and Stacey shot these cute pictures of him when he woke up.

Kallie had fun sitting right in front of the swing and watching baby James too.  She was very cute with him!  Uncle Jake arrived late Friday night, and Saturday morning he turned on a football game and the boys joined him to watch.  (They are wearing their capes I made them for their Halloween costumes . . . hopefully I’ll finish the rest of the costumes to post on here by the end of the week!)

     

A squirt bottle, an ironing board, and a smile

Yesterday, I had this squirt bottle out after doing some ironing, and Landon and Davis wanted to go play with it in the backyard.  They were out there forever, squirting the dirt.  Who knew a squirt bottle could be so entertaining.

Meanwhile, every day, while Landon is at Kindergarten, Davis does pretty good at finding ways to entertain himself.  Besides listening to Little Einsteins classical music while running up and down the hall, he pretty much always does something with cars.  Here are a few pictures of him yesterday racing cards down the ironing board, and a short video too.

   

And finally, here are a few pictures of James.  He likes to sit like this on the boppy and watch Davis run all over the place! 

 

Uno

Last night, we had fun playing a game of Uno.  Davis decided that this was the best way to hold his Uno cards. 

He got bored of that and then tried the upside down approach:

Landon was a little more focused, thank goodness. We may have never finished the game if we had been playing with two monkeys!

First Giggles

I finally took a minute and captures James's new laugh on the camera. He has been laughing like this for a few weeks now, and he always seems to do it best for Shane!