Pumpkin carving and seed harvesting commences after nap
Ella peers in for a good look inside
Dad showing Desmond his classic/signature/one-trick-pony carving technique
Desmond practicing his knife skills
Mom starts sketching Ella’s request for “cat” and “baby”
Serious kudos to mom’s creativity and execution for the improvised “baby cat” pumpkin
These two little pumpkins with their pumpkins
Eleanor putting everything in her mouth, including pumpkin innards. Mom explains why this isn’t good…
So she’s destined to watch this year from the sidelines
Desmond focused this year primarily on find just the right “mad” eyes via google image search, pumpkin sketching on paper and lid alignment
While mom and dad were spending the weekend celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary, Eleanor and Des stayed with ma and pa.
Eleanor pulling a “cool baby”
Desmond inspecting the pumpkin carving
While the annual trip to the AppleJack Festival didn’t happen this year, it was perhaps even more enjoyable to visit Kimmel Orchard without the mob of people
Des growing and growing
Ella’s hayrack ride face
Desmond was a bit more animated, though uncertain if it was the ride or the sight of the tractor
Like brother, like sister. Initially she wasn’t into it, but after mom took a starter bite to get the juices going, Eleanor clearly saw what the fuss was all about.
Cause who doesn’t double-fist apples?
Every time mom tried to put the apple down for a moment, Eleanor would grasp on and try to pull it back to her mouth
Desmond sitting on a pumpkin. Not sure why. Closer to the pumpkin patch, he runs over saying, “I go sit on pumpkin.” Toddler mysteries.
Waving hello to the pumpkins
Learning to eat his pizza “how Stephen holds it.”
All worn out after hiking through the orchard, to extent of falling asleep with his cement mixer still in hand
Babies- emptying kleenex boxes in record time since forever
Ok, dad may be tied for most interested in the frogs (whose aliases now switched to Darth Vader and Ice Cream)
