9 months/beautiful Fall day at the park

For Edwin's 9 month photos we revisited the magical place we happened upon when we were taking Charlie's photos last year. I thought there would be no way it could be as dreamy as last year because there was sun and fog and beautiful colors. It didn't disappoint this year either. The leaves were dry and the colors still vibrant. And Also, I just want to point out the the following photo of Edwin has been my favorite photo of him to date and it was the first of 100+ that came out of my camera that day. I never nail the first shot so...I guess I'm just bragging about that and now I'll stop...

 We have yet to follow the trail because I always promise my kids we can play on the playground if they let me take their photos. So, I guess next year we'll try it out and see if there's more Fall magic around the bend.

 Eating the foliage again...you would think I never feed this kid!

 

A brief tender moment between these brothers. Miles is generally pretty indifferent about Edwin. Edwin, of course, is fascinated with both his big brothers.

  And then the promised playground time until the rain clouds came...

These monthly post were originally supposed to be for me to track Edwin's development which I haven't done very well because I'm always months behind. (but catching up!!) So hooray for beautiful days at the park.

Halloween

 Halloween came and went quickly...we had intentions of doing the Moana theme...Charlie had it all planned out since before Edwin was born. Charlie would be Maui, I would be Moana, Max would be the giant crab, Miles would be the chicken and Edwin would be a little coconut guy. As Halloween got closer and after I cut my hair and realized I couldn't make it as moana-esque, we decided to make it more simple. Charlie and I discussed doing the "floppy guys" as he calls them and made a plan. The boys got really excited about the idea and our costume design kept changing to make it more simple. I kinda like how it turned out even if no one else could really tell what we were. I love that my whole family was so excited about such a silly and simple costume.

The first night we wore our costumes, we went to a church Halloween party. (Where the photo was taken.)

When it was actually Halloween I had to repair the boys paper hats a bit and we decided on not doing the arm streamers to make it even more simple. Max got home later from work than we hoped so the daylight was gone and we didn't take the photos we wanted...We had great intentions of taking photos using a fan to blow our streamers  but it didn't happen and we all survived. Our costumes were kinda...one-time-use costumes so it didn't even make sense to do it on another day.
We followed our tradition of visiting great grandparents on Halloween. We started with Max's grandma, Mumzie. The boys loved all the fun decorations that Justin had put out. We then made our way to Green Grandma's house where the boys got to play with her fun toys. We then made our way to red Grandma's house. Edwin and I stayed and visited Grandma while Max took Miles and Charlie to trick or treat a bit on her street. Then it got really late and we decided to take our sleepy and sugared up boys home.

Pumpkin Patch: Part 2

For our next trip to the pumpkin patch we had to go without Max. (Is that weird that refuse to go to a pumpkin patch on a Saturday?! I just don't like crowds) But luckily we planned to meet with some great friends. We weren't even planning on getting pumpkins, just letting our kids play on the play ground and hay bales and tractors. And it ended up being a warm and beautiful sunny day...and these first photos were made possible by me not checking my camera settings...and I kinda love them.

It got so exciting when Landon arrived!

 

And then Kennedy came...I also think this will be a fun photo to pull out if they ever end up dating...
 

These three kids (all 5 years old at the time of this photo) go to church together but all attend Kindergarten at different schools. 

 So we ride the tractor ride out to the pumpkin patch...and I attempt a photo with these wild animals which proves to be quite tricky...and while  I am grateful for the sunlight...it didn't make the best pumpkin patch photo lighting! And as you can see...the lightening is not the only issue with these photos...haha!

 

Doing the pumpkin lift with all the friends!

 

And there you have it, My kids got a pumpkin patch experience...and we didn't even end up carving pumpkins...they were painted. Which I just realized I don't have a picture of that at all. Maybe I will take pictures of fun details like that once I'm caught up on my blog...also...In case you missed it...I've done like 12 blog posts in the last week. 

Pumpkin Patch: Part 1

Our first attempt going to a Pumpkin Patch this year was a fail because we got there after it closed.  I remembered last year when we went it had closed but we were allowed to stay late which is what I was hoping because they have dreamy sunsets over the corn fields. Apparently this wasn't the case this time. When we arrived, Max asked a worker if we could still go in and take some pictures. They said that would be fine while they were closing up different parts of the farm. But it would probably only be about 10 minutes. We thought that was super gracious of them.

So we tried to get some rapid photos of the boys, then they got a couple minutes to play on the playground before we were officially kicked out.

 

Edwin was grumpy and tired.

So then I had to promise my boys that I would take them back on a following weekday after we picked Charlie up from school.