Halloween & Pumpkins

Smiling Olivia


Euan in the farmyard train


Euan


Olivia..not quite as good when you can see Mummy behind the post!






The pumpkins


family fun in amongst the pumpkins


Daddy and his pumpkins


Mom and her kidlets at the pumpkin patch


Our scary halloween pumpkins


Our finished pumpkins. Lots of work but lots of fun too!


Olivia as cat baby


with the side kick Batman


So its fall or Autumn. The thing to do here in Canada with children is head to the pumpkin patch for some fun. Not only do you buy your pumpkins to take home, there are lots of wooden vehicles to play on, there are wooden cows and goats to milk, there is a good sized corn maze, there is a petting zoo with lots of animals to see, a little concession stand which Euan was excited about, he got a cookie as a treat. Its a really large farm filled with tonnes of pumpkins, its very muddy so wellington boots are in order and we had to carry Livi. Some parents were there with prams but too messy and hard to push.
Euan had a really good time. He picked his own pumpkin and the carving that he wanted on it. He seemed quite excited to pick his own, although it did take several picks before we got there. He liked playing on the toy train and a tractor. We got to go on a tractor and have a tractor ride which I was quite excited about. We went into the corn maze, he liked leading the way round although it did take quite a bit of time to get out, there were lots of wrong turns. We looked at the animals, lots of cute baby chicks, rabbits, ponies. We came home and we hollowed out all the pumpkins and set about carving them, we were very pleased with how they turned out.

Halloween itself was a bit of a washout. I had planned on taking Euan up to the mall dressed up as Batman while Olivia stayed home and napped, but he was so naughty that we stayed at home instead. There were a million children at the door on Halloween night but I had forgotten to buy sweets, that's all they do here candy, no fruit and definitely no nuts, its a huge no no here. Needless to say I never answered the door, even though the carved pumpkins at the door was an invitation to come. I must get better organized for next year. The traditional things here at Halloween here is fireworks so there was plenty of them until just before midnight.

Nothing much else has happened. We went to the zoo a few weeks back which was lots of fun, but we don't have any good pictures from that, and we will be heading out today for a little while. Its nice and sunny so we should get outside for some exercise.




Olivia has just learned to clap her hands, she likes to do it and look for your reaction.


Euan & his pumpkin


Euan & pumpkin


spooky pumpkins


Olivia playing peekaboo


I think its time to lower the mattress. She spends a lot of time on her knees and is trying to pull herself up to standing in it.