My Tiny T Rex

I was really excited for Halloween.  I have never really been a huge fan of it in the past. However,  I was excited to dress up Nolan.  Mama and I found the cutest Tiny T Rex costume at Costco.  (I am also not a believer in spending a fortune on something he may hate wearing.) It was perfect. It came with green pants in case it was cold (which it sure was.)   

Nolan wore an orange body suit with really cute black monster leg warmers over to Barb’s for his Halloween daycare party!  I kept the legwarmers on him and changed him into a black body suit.  I packed his costume and we headed over to the Biro’s for dinner and trick or treating.  It was nice that J’s whole family was there and all of Andy’s family was there too.  They had catered P’Sghetti’s for dinner and it was delicious.

It was miserably cold, so Ellen and I decided to dress our boys and go over to Kate and Aaron’s (friends across the street) and call it a night for the babies.  Parker was a cute lobster and Nolan was a Tiny T Rex. I was impressed that neither minded their costume too much.  Ellen even put Parker in a stock pot for some cute pictures.  Nolan was all about holding his pumpkin and did not even need my help.  He even kept trying to fish out his candy and stick it in his mouth…..paper and all. 

The older boys had a fire going on in the driveway and stayed out there to hand out candy.  Nolan and Parker played in doors.  Next year should be a great age for trick or treating.  I need to start now to think about creative cute costumes for next year!

Picking Apples

We had such a fun time last year as a family picking apples, I was so excited to go back this year. I even planned it when my Mama was in town so she could experience it as well.  We lucked out and chose a beautiful Sunday October day.  We met up with the Biro’s after church and drove toward the river.  We like to go to the orchard across the river in Grafton.  To get there the fastest way is to take the Grafton Ferry which is just an experience in itself.    We had lunch out on the deck of the Loading Dock.   Nolan was so good, and slept in the stroller. We ate and made our way to Eckert’s.  At first glance, you would think by all the cars in the field that it is going to be an utter nightmare.  However, this is what they do and everything runs super smoothly. 

I thought a head and remembered to bring my carrier for Nolan.  I couldn’t remember if strollers were allowed in the orchard, but thought that would be a nightmare anyways. (Point- strollers are not allowed, for anyone’s future reference.  You wait in line to take a tractor ride to the orchard where they tell you what rows to pick from. This time of year we were able to pick Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, and Jonathon apples. I love that you can eat as you pick.  I loved that Nolan wanted to chew on the apple and suck the juice after I took a bite. He was so funny and got made when I took the apple away from him to bite it.  I loved sharing the day with my Mama too.  She had never been apple picking before. WE decided we were having a very Middle American day! 

50 pounds and $85.00 later we took the apples to the car and went back into the orchard for pumpkins.  How cool is it that you can pick your pumpkin right off the vine! J and Peyton picked out 2 really big pumpkins (luckily, this weekend, pumpkins were half off and only $0.24 a pound instead of $0.48!  I still have apples galore…and really need to freeze them down since they are starting to rot.