Ethan Wayne and the Great Pumpkin

I should start off by saying i am an awful mom! i waited until the last minute to go get a pumpkin. walmart didnt have any more so we went late saturday night to smiths. matt stayed in the car with ethan and i ran in... when i got to the produce section my heart dropped when i saw that all the pumpkins were gone. i walked to the front of the store in tears. what kind of mom doesnt get her kid a pumpkin for his first halloween? as i was walking out of the store i noticed 2 tiny pumpkins with painted faces. they were on managers special and i was on cloud 9! i was so excited and snatched one of them up! it was the perfect size for my little guy! i washed off the paint and helped him carve it! and boy am i glad i did!
Ethan enjoyed following the big orange ball with his eyes. i know its good for his brain to touch different textures and so i helped him explore all the surfaces of the pumpkin.

he was a little bit wary of the pumpkin goo at first

we put him in his bumbo chair and put the goop on the tray while i carved the pumpkin face. it only took him a second to figure out that the pumpkin goop was fun! he played for about 25 minutes and only tried to eat it twice!

he was so amazed with the finished product. ethan loves light and the pumpkin had his attention!

i cant wait till next year!

pumpkin patch

The friday before halloween we decided to go to the pumpkin patch to get a few fun pictures. first we tried to get a picture through the pig head but ethan would not bend his legs so we had to move over to the cow face. little stinker! he loves to put weight on his legs now but sometimes it is not convenient! he makes a pretty cute cow though!
then we found some pumpkins to lean against. matt was afraid he was going to fall over but think we did pretty good! i got him the cute outfit at gymboree! it says mommy's little (picture of a pumpkin)

he had fun riding on daddy's shoulders. he was playing with daddy's hair and staring at the fun hanging lights. i also got to take him on a train ride but we only got video of that. it was pretty much a lawn mower made to look like a train with a cart attached that made me dizzy going round and round but it was fun nonetheless! he didnt even get scared!

i know he is a little young for all these fun activities. they are more for my benefit i guess but its just so fun to have my own little guy to take to all these fun things!

we have so much fun with our little man! im so excited for the holiday season to start. halloween is the kickoff holiday and i think we will have a lot of fun! thanksgiving with the larsens this year and chritmas with the rodartes/warrens. even if he doesnt get the full fun of the holidays at least his scrapbook will be awesome!