Cultivating Childhood

 It's only the middle of November, right?  I can still talk about October. The month began when I realized that a Groupon deal was about to expire at the Imagine Children's Museum.  We quickly made time to go. Buddy likes being part of the statue October also brought about the boys first attempt at "competitive" sports.  Buddy just loved playing soccer, especially as the goalie.  Button wasn't as sure about it, but he had fun too.  It was funny to watch three and four year olds try to kick the ball into the right goal.  They got there eventually though. Practice Buddy as goalie.  He wasn't very interested in going after the ball, but he enjoyed keeping the ball out of the goal. Button spent a lot of time on the sidelines with us. Buddy had a blast. We also spent a lot of time at parks this month. At Greenlake The Community Garden at Twin Ponds Twin Ponds Playground Scriber Lake ...

Daddy had Columbus Day off, so we spent the day at the pumpkin patch! The day started out by going to Frost Doughnuts in Mill Creek.  Phil can't resist the Bacon Maple Bar! We decided to try a different pumpkin patch this year since we were going on a Monday.   Bob's Corn and Pumpkin Farm looked fun and seemed to have a lot more going on during the weekdays. We had to get the compulsory pictures next to the pumpkin growth chart.  You can see where they were at last year on my post from last October.  They've grown a bit!  =) It was a beautiful day to be out at the farm.  You could see for miles around, and the farm was relatively empty. Thankfully, there was one preschool group there.  We unintentionally sort of followed them around which meant that we got to take advantage of the hay ride and cow train that otherwise might not have been open to us normal folk. Can you see the boys hiding in the tractor ...