Corn Maze/ Pumpkinland

In addition to the previous post, I wanted to post some pictures of us playing at the Corn Maze (this was at Vineyard Garden Center) and at the play area at the end of the maze called Pumpkinland.

We had some beautiful weather yesterday and didn't even have to wear our jackets. They kids were in heaven just running around outside.










Leah wanted to lead the way for us. It took us a while to walk through the maze because Cameron kept stopping along the way to play in the dirt.














This hole was a little small for Cameron's head. He some how managed to get it out. The kids also enjoyed seeing all the animals. There were lots of goats, chickens, rabbits, and some pigeons. As you can see, we had a lot of fun and were quite tired by the end of it.

Cameron's update and Halloween fun

Just a quick little update on Cameron (I've been meaning to do this for a while). He will turn 2 at the end of next month, and he has come such a long way from turning one. He is adding new words every day and repeating things that we say often. But the most frequent word he says is "Eat, eat, eat." He used to just say "No" when we asked him to say a word and to just about everything else we asked him to do. But now he's trying really hard to talk to us.

He is still ALL boy and loves to pretend any kind of stick or utensil is a sword or weapon. Just this week he has pretended he is a snake and will chase us and pretend to bite us. I found a Cat in the Hat Reptile book at the library, and he loves reading it before bed time. He says "big" and "small" to the picture with different sizes of lizards.



He loves to do whatever Leah is doing still, and he loves to play with our neighbor friends, Emma and Aiden. He even tries to say their names and their mom and dad's names.

I had to take him to see the doctor because of a rash on his face the other day, and he is now 31 pounds and super tall (I forgot how many inches tall). He can fit into 3T size shirts and pajamas now and he's not even two yet.




Cameron also loves to help in the kitchen. As soon as Logan goes into the kitchen to make pancakes, he pulls one of the kitchen chairs over and says "Help, help." So cute! And most of the time we try to be patience and let him help us. Here Logan made pumpkin pancakes with chocolate chips for breakfast, and he even made some pumpkin syrup to go with it. Yummmmmmm!












So yesterday I still needed to pick out some bigger pumpkins for Logan and I to carve. I took the kids to the Vineyard Garden Center. It's a fun place with a nice playground for the kids and some festive Halloween fun. But at first they didn't even want to leave the playground to pick out the pumpkins. They were having too much fun.

Cameron would climb the ladder all the way up to the twisty slide, go down head first and come out and say "More!" And then he would do it all over again.















Leah found a great stick to draw in the dirt. I wouldn't let her play with just her hands in the dirt so she was resourceful and found a stick. She was even drawing pictures. She said this was queen bee.


















After a while of playing, I finally dragged them over to pick out pumpkins. Cameron kept picking the smaller pumpkins up and putting them in our wagon. I had to put many pumpkins back after he was "helping" me.
Here they are - Best buds:

















They even indulged their mother's wishes to take some pictures in front of the inflatable characters.

Cameron with the salad tongs

What can I say, he's a boy and he's knows it. Any kind of utensil or stick becomes a make believe weapon for Cam. He even does the sounds effects.



And I found this old video of Cameron when he was about 10 months old. I thought it might make you laugh.

Kids love puddles!!

I was not home when this happened, thank goodness. Logan had to clean them up afterward.

Leah's grocery list

Disclaimer: The last few posts have been about Leah so I promise I will post about Cameron soon. He has been learning more words and growing so big. It's just that Leah is in a cute stage where she really wants to help and learn (and is sometimes too helpful with Cameron and he doesn't want to be helped). She has been learning to write to her letters and amazes me when she does stuff like the following.

Today Logan had to run to the store and Leah wanted to go. We were talking about the list of items and Leah said she wanted to make a list. So we told her which letters to write for bread, ice cream and milk, the three essentials when you go to the store. And you can see what she did.













The list













She's such a cutie, but I'm a little biased.