In my posts, that is. We've had a busy few weeks in our household. First off, Brett was in Australia on a business trip for 2+ weeks at the end of October, so that presented some interesting challenges. Enter Grandma and Grandpa to help keep our family in one piece until he returned. Then multiple birthdays, a trip to the pumpkin patch and, of course, Halloween. I think I will probably turn all these happenings into a couple posts, rather than try to get it all in at once.
So Australia: Brett was in Brisbane which, for the uninitiated to the Southern Hemisphere, is on the eastern coast of Australia. He really enjoyed the friendliness of the people he met there and, despite having a very busy work schedule, was able to visit the Great Barrier Reef for a day just before the trip home. Maybe I can persuade him to do a post on his own about his experiences.
Enter Grandma to help out while he was gone (thank goodness!). She got to meet Cora for the first time and was a big help with both little ones. We ladies held down the fort just fine, thank you very much...
Our October would not have been complete without a trip to the pumpkin patch. We chose a different farm this year, and really enjoyed our trip. Just like our drive last year to pumpkin-land, we left on a very foggy morning and it was just so beautiful to be out in the fields as the fog burned off. A little cold, though, as you can see from Larson's bundling up. It didn't really occur to me to check the weather where we were actually going, instead of just in our neighborhood :)
The highlight of the entire outing for Larson was undoubtably the GREEN tractors that pulled the hay wagons. Picking a pumpkin was definitely secondary! Note the green pumpkin carefully selected by him at the farm. Our neighbors across the street joked with us that they knew which pumpkin on our balcony was Larson's and were chuckling to themselves as they watched it get more and more orange (and less and less green) every day.
The following weekend (still sans dad) was my first back on call, so more reinforcements (ie, Grandpa) were flown in. Everyone rose to the occasion wonderfully and we got through the weekend quite smoothly. Larson got to go "trick or treating" in our neighborhood downtown (for some reason they do it the weekend before Halloween) and his Grandma was very proud to report to me that he said "Thank You" unprompted to every person who gave him a treat. That's my guy!
Stay tuned for more on Halloween and our little 3 month old!
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