The cutest little sayings

It's been really fun hearing Ben talk about Halloween, he's very excited seeing the decorations in stores and knows that he's going to be dressing up. After hearing him just say "Halloween" over and over I asked him if he liked Halloween and he said "Yes!", I told him to say something about Halloween, if he looked forward to it, liked it or enjoyed things about it and later on I heard him talking to his Daddy and he said "I yike Halloween skuff (stuff)!" Cracked us up! He's really starting to form sentences. I heard him just a couple of minutes ago playing with his Elmo balloon and he said "Beeyoon make me happy". Ahhh, the sweet sound of his little voice, I love it when things make him happy! Especially because he has also asked us if we were mad and told us he was angry recently, new feelings and emotions from our sweet two year old that I am glad he is exploring and learning but really hope he has more good emotions than bad.

Schnepf Farms

Ryan and Elyse were on one of their school breaks and I wanted to do something fun with them, I had heard about Schnepf farms pumpkin and chili festival and knew that there would be some fun things for all of us. It was a lot of fun, our unseasonably warm weather was the only hindrance. We went on a Hay ride around the farm and stopped at some miniature deer to feed them, the driver told us some facts about the fully operational 300 acre farm, that was interesting. We got to ride the Carousel which was of course a treat for Ben since he thinks they are so cool right now. There were goats and other animals you could pet in the petting zoo but it freaked Ben out and he wanted nothing to do with touching the animals. Then the kids wanted to go on a train ride around it, that was nice, a little breezy too which helped. Then we stopped off at a little store and go sodas before riding a Bee ride, roller-coaster, swinging ride and going through the corn maze. We walked one last time through the pumpkin patch before ending by getting the best Lemonades Elyse and I had ever had. All in all, a fun fall activity that I would do again, as long as the temps are way below 95.

Zoo

Grammy came down and watched Ben so that James and I could go to the Jack Johnson concert, celebrating 4 wonderful years of marriage, we had a great time! The next day we decided to go to the Zoo and they just bought new paddleboats and we decided to try them out, that was quite a lot of fun!