Dinner-time

For the last few weeks, Owen has been joining us at the table for dinner. In the past, Justin and I would just wait until after we put Owen to bed to eat. It is so nice now to all eat together!

It has provided for quite a few funny (and frustrating) moments, to say the least. Owen refuses to eat vegetables or fruit. When we give them to him, he picks it up, examines it, and immediately throws it on the floor. I have tried all kinds of everything...he still does it! (if any of you have any words of wisdom, please send them our way!). He also stuffs a TON of food in his mouth before he swallows. Sometimes it's so full he can't even fit the straw in his mouth to get some water. Don't worry, though - we watch him very closely and do try to limit the amount of food he has in front of him :)

A mouthful of food...yummy!!

Trying to keep it all in.

Monkey-ing Around

I can't believe Owen's first Halloween has already come and gone. This year is just flying by! I think mom and dad had a little more fun than Owen did, but I suppose that's part of the fun of being a parent :) Owen was a monkey for Halloween , and a pretty stinking cute monkey if you ask me! We didn't really go trick-or-treating...we took Owen to our neighbors house, and then he helped us hand out candy to our trick-or-treaters. I think he had much more fun doing that than dressing up!

Hey, check me out! *Owen pretty much lives on our fireplace. He loves it up there, and plays up there (supervised, of course...most of the time :) all of the time!

Clap for monkeys!

Checking out our crap fake pumpkins we had to buy because we waited to the very last minute to go to the pumpkin patch AND then didn't bring any money.

Pumpkin patch

We thought we'd get in the true spirit of fall and take Owen to a pumpkin patch this year. Owen really loves being outside, and he LOVES other kids, so we thought he'd have a great time. We had to go on a weeknight because our weekends have been so jammed-packed full of stuff lately, but the weather was great and it was packed! There were kids running around everywhere, people laughing, it was perfect! This is what Owen thought...

He was definitely not quite sure about the pumpkin patch (and yes, we are well aware Owen is desperate need of another haircut)! After a few minutes, he finally warmed up a little bit, and we started checking things out.

Hey, this pumpkin makes a pretty good drum!

This chicken would make a fun pet!

Yum, yum! Hay!!

We had a great time at the pumpkin patch. We'll definitely make it a Myers family tradition - only we'll do some better planning next year. We would have liked to go on the hayride, but we just ran out of time, since we had to go on a weeknight. It will also be a little more fun next year when Owen can run around on his own. Another thing we'll remember next year is to bring some cash...we had our nice pumpkins picked out, wheeled our wagon up to pay, and realized it was cash-only, and I think we had $1 between us. Oops!