Midnight Musings

We took Evan to a pumpkin patch in Odum back in October. There was a lot of stuff for little kids to play with and we took a hay ride out to the actual pumpkin patch to get our pumpkins.

But first Kim wanted to get a photo with the sign.

There was a petting zoo, although you couldn't really pet a lot of the animals unless they came right up to the fence. There was a really cool bridge over part of the grounds that the goats used to walk around over our heads.


Here Evan points to the ducks after petting the donkeys.

Evan tries his hand at roping a steer. I don't think his coordination is good enough for this yet.

After all, steer wrestling is more his style anyway.

Evan really loved the cow train. After his first ride he signed "more" and cried when we took him out to go get some lunch.

We let Evan choose our pumpkins for us. He had a kick bringing up pumpkins and handing them to us. Just don't tell him that we were only able to keep three of the twenty he collected.

He really did try to pick this one up. He just couldn't get a good grip.

He already knows tractors, but this is a little larger than the one his granddaddy takes him on.

This photo is from a week later getting ready to go out for Halloween. We decided to dress him up as Baby Einstein. He had little suspenders (you can't see them here) and we styled his hair up and back to get Einstein's famous shock of hair and then used that colored spray to dye his hair white for the night. Kim even painted his shirt with "E=MC²" so the lack of mustache wouldn't confuse people.

More of the styling process. Evan's eating a sour straw. We don't usually let him eat candy, but we made a small exception for Halloween.

Not many people know that Einstein had a thing for chocolate cupcakes. To make sure Evan's costume was as realistic as possible, we had to let him eat a chocolate cupcake too. That's a look of satisfaction (and sleepiness from being up and running around an hour after his bedtime.)