Happy Fall!

We've been doing lots of "fallish" things lately. We've been enjoying the nip in the air, wearing jackets and "gubs" (gloves) and drinking "hot hot" (hot chocolate) before bed. Recently, we raked up all the leaves in the front yard and tried to convince Avery that it was really fun to jump in them. Strangely, a door to door salesman and our next door neighbor wanted to jump in them more than he did. Alas, that's the way it goes around here. We finally just threw him in the pile and he realized it wasn't so bad...until they filled his diaper...then he got annoyed.

 We also painted a pumpkin. We wanted to go to a pumpkin patch, but they're only open on weekends and are all kind of expensive. We found this baby at Wal-Mart for the bargain price of $3.98, and took 'er home. Here's the process that yielded our finished product.

It started with feverish sharpie drawing. 

Here. Let's do some hand prints!

This is alright!

More!

Blap! 

Really gettin' into it.

Hard at work!

This is how you do it right?

Better get the foot in here for good measure!

He's almost wearing as much paint as the pumpkin is.

Ta Da!

Here's the back

Happy FALL!