A Painted Pumpkin

This year I wanted Noah to be able to do something with a pumpkin. He's too small to handle a knife, so it seemed paint was the next best option. We sat him down, showed him the paint brushes, and let him go.

He had no interest in trying to handle the paint brush and just shoved his hands right into the paint. He didn't seem to have any particular design in mind for the pumpkin. He went for more of a Jackson Pollock kind of look. He played in the paint for a while until his pumpkin took on a nice gray color. Then he got frustrated with the paint being on his hands. It was time to call it a night. The pumpkin was not exactly what you'd call beautiful, but Noah did it himself. Mission accomplished.

Spirit Week

Last week, Noah's daycare had spirit week. He only had to go for two days, but we dressed accordingly. Tuesday was crazy day, for wearing mismatched clothes. Wednesday was black and orange day. Nana bought his spooky shirt and had it mailed overnight so he could wear it. He was definitely showing his spirit. Well, maybe it was more my spirit than his, but spirit nonetheless.

At the Pumpkin Patch

This weekend we took Noah to a local pumpkin patch. The place was actually more fun than we expected. They had an area with baby goats, a couple of smelly pigs, a turkey, and some chickens. You were not allowed to feed or pet the animals because they would bite, but it was still cute. They had face painting for the kiddos, ice cream, boiled peanuts, and hot dogs. Then you got to jump on a hay ride to head out to pick out your pumpkin. They had an area where you could pick out tiny pumpkins, which I've never seen before, then an area with the larger ones.

It was hard to get a good picture of Noah looking at the camera. There was just too much going on and too many distractions. He seemed to enjoy picking his way through the pumpkins, occasionally trying to push one over. I thought he might try to pick them up, but he was content to leave them on the ground and just touch them all. When we had seen all the pumpkins there were to see, we hopped back on the hay ride to head back to the car. It was a fun first trip to the pumpkin patch for our little family.

Reading to Daddy

One of my favorite things that we have seen Noah do so far is read. He will grab a book off his shelf, usually a Little Quack book, sit down and turn the pages, pointing things out and making sounds as he goes. We've seen him do this several times, but I finally got it on video one night when he decided to read to Taylor. I apologize for the video being dark.

Professor Larkin

Nana has a couple of pairs of reading glasses laying around her house and thought it would be cute to see what they would look like on Noah. Normally, he can't stand to have anything on his face or head and pull things off as soon as you put them on him. But for some reason, he thought this was really funny. He looked so adorable in them. Our little professor all ready to teach his first class.