Cotton Museum in Memphis
9 years ago
Sunday, October 26, 2008
The carving of the pumpkins!
James started cutting the tops off and hollowing them out. Mari was very intrigued but a little timid (which is really unlike her). Her curiosity was peaked and she wanted to stick her hand in the pumpkin like James was doing, but you can see from the looks on her face she just isn't too sure what will happen!
Here she touched the edge, but then quickly moved her hand back and zoomed back in her little scooter/walker.
Finally, after a few "fake outs" she sticks her whole hand in (all the way past the elbow).
Mystery of what's inside the pumpkin solved, she puts the lid on it!
Jake puts the unlit candle inside Mari's Jack-O-Lantern.
Jake keeps trying to blow out the lighter while I am trying to light the Jack-O-Lantern, so we let him practice blowing out "birthday candles". Mari was taking pointers from the sidelines.
Jake watches his daddy, before drawing a face (which I cut out for him) on his pumpkin.
Choo Choo!
While in Fairpark on a walk this afternoon, we heard a train whistle and so we rushed over to the tracks in time to see a very loud and noisy train go by!
Both Jake and Mari were enthralled! Saturday, October 25, 2008
A trip to the Pumpkin Patch
Here we are on a hayride to the hay maze.
Mari thought it was an all you can eat hay ride.
Welcome to the hay maze! They drop you off here and you have to find your way through it to the pumpkin patch on the other side. I have always wanted to visit a maze, but this was the first time I ever have. It was actually kind of scary. I never thought it would be.
James is always quick to decide what he wants. He was done and ready to leave, Jake and I had a harder time making up our minds!
"Too heavy"
Mari was happy with any thing we brought her! 
Jake finally found one that wasn't "too heavy" and was excited that he was able to pick it up.
We are finally getting better and felt up to doing something today. We had plans to visit James' sister, brother and sister-in-law last weekend, but the kids and I were at the peak of a two week cold virus. Poor Mari is still congested. She was the first to get it and the last to get better. I had a lot of work due the past two weeks as well and so it wasn't the best time to get sick--not that there is ever a good time I suppose! However, since we are all mostly well, we went to the Buffalo Park today to pick out our pumpkins in their "pumkin patch". We had never been before (to the pumpkin patch-we have been to the zoo part a few weeks before Mari was born) and although it was muddy, we had lots of fun as you can see from the few hundred pictures I have posted above (just a fraction of the ones I took). Jake is as handsome as ever and was excited that he and Mari got to wear identical shirts today. He says the cutest things and has us constantly laughing at his view of things. He kept picking up every pumkin he saw and would then say "too heavy" and put it back down. As you can see in the last picture I ended up carrying his (which I expected to do anyway). He wanted one he could pick up, but then he said "Mamma carry it!", so I am not too sure why it mattered that he could carry it! We got to ride a wagon filled with hay, out to the hay maze and then we walked through the pumpkin patch to pick ours out. Jake was very impressed with the tractor that pulled the hay wagon and he seemed really interested in the rotton pumpkins. He also wanted to stomp on the pumpkins to make them break? I have no idea where he got that idea??? Boys are just different. James and I have been discussing how different it has been having a little girl around for almost a year now! I think Mari is a good cross between James and myself looks wise at least. Most people we meet think she looks like me, but I think in these pictures she looks more like James. She has been such delight. I feel very fortunate that she and Jake were born to us! Jake is really getting excited about getting candy at church and the coffee house for Halloween and everyday he has a new opinion about what is going to happen on his birthday (or at his birthday party rather since it won't be on his birthday this year). I have more pictures to post of thing that have happened since my last post (and I found the pictures of their first day at "school" although they haven't been a single day in the last two weeks). Hopefully, I will have more pictures tomorrow as well since that is when we plan on carving the Jack-o-lanterns.
Mari thought it was an all you can eat hay ride.
Welcome to the hay maze! They drop you off here and you have to find your way through it to the pumpkin patch on the other side. I have always wanted to visit a maze, but this was the first time I ever have. It was actually kind of scary. I never thought it would be.
James is always quick to decide what he wants. He was done and ready to leave, Jake and I had a harder time making up our minds!
"Too heavy"
Mari was happy with any thing we brought her! 
Jake finally found one that wasn't "too heavy" and was excited that he was able to pick it up.
We are finally getting better and felt up to doing something today. We had plans to visit James' sister, brother and sister-in-law last weekend, but the kids and I were at the peak of a two week cold virus. Poor Mari is still congested. She was the first to get it and the last to get better. I had a lot of work due the past two weeks as well and so it wasn't the best time to get sick--not that there is ever a good time I suppose! However, since we are all mostly well, we went to the Buffalo Park today to pick out our pumpkins in their "pumkin patch". We had never been before (to the pumpkin patch-we have been to the zoo part a few weeks before Mari was born) and although it was muddy, we had lots of fun as you can see from the few hundred pictures I have posted above (just a fraction of the ones I took). Jake is as handsome as ever and was excited that he and Mari got to wear identical shirts today. He says the cutest things and has us constantly laughing at his view of things. He kept picking up every pumkin he saw and would then say "too heavy" and put it back down. As you can see in the last picture I ended up carrying his (which I expected to do anyway). He wanted one he could pick up, but then he said "Mamma carry it!", so I am not too sure why it mattered that he could carry it! We got to ride a wagon filled with hay, out to the hay maze and then we walked through the pumpkin patch to pick ours out. Jake was very impressed with the tractor that pulled the hay wagon and he seemed really interested in the rotton pumpkins. He also wanted to stomp on the pumpkins to make them break? I have no idea where he got that idea??? Boys are just different. James and I have been discussing how different it has been having a little girl around for almost a year now! I think Mari is a good cross between James and myself looks wise at least. Most people we meet think she looks like me, but I think in these pictures she looks more like James. She has been such delight. I feel very fortunate that she and Jake were born to us! Jake is really getting excited about getting candy at church and the coffee house for Halloween and everyday he has a new opinion about what is going to happen on his birthday (or at his birthday party rather since it won't be on his birthday this year). I have more pictures to post of thing that have happened since my last post (and I found the pictures of their first day at "school" although they haven't been a single day in the last two weeks). Hopefully, I will have more pictures tomorrow as well since that is when we plan on carving the Jack-o-lanterns.
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