Halloween 2011

Here's a little preview of Joe's costume! In all it's homemade-y goodness.

Hope to capture more tonight when we take him to a friend's block party.

Pumpkin Patch

Joe & I (and my friend Tami, who loves farms) took Joe to the pumpkin patch this weekend! I was expecting more of a "Picture with Santa on Christmas Eve" situation since Halloween is so soon, but the place was pretty empty when we got there (when it opened) at 9.

 There is a corn bin, which is exactly what it sounds like, a bin of dried kernels of corn. There is a slide into it  to which Joe's response was an uncharacteristic, "Oh no, I'm not letting myself move on this thing!" Could have been that just beyond the blue sheet pictured were 6 or so cows watching him. It turns out that there are 2 pipes from the corn bin to their feed bin so that you can "feed" them handfuls of corn. So they hear corn & they mosey right over.

 Joe LOVED climbing on the tractor & trying to shift gears & steer.

 I was really excited about the hayride.

 Joe got pretty into his banana, and tolerated the hayride.

I can say with 100% certainty that this was the first time that the kid stayed asleep after our car stopped in the driveway. Well played, Ganyard Hill Farms.

Edited to add a few more pics:

 

Joe says, "Who in their right mind would want a goat to eat out of their hand?" 

Oh.

Joe's Book Club

Joe is finally not treating books as objects! And he has favorites! That he will tear through his bookshelf looking for, while rejecting all the others. Sometimes he thinks that he might like Twas the Night Before Christmas, but he doesn't.

Video Highlights!

Joe is still VERY into jumping. Using the laptop as a launching pad is (apparently) an essential part of the process.

We are also encouraging him to save his pennies...

...which he can earn by vaccuming.

Edited to add:
This is the sum total of tricks that Joe can currently do.