Pumpkins, Ghosts, Goblins, and big kids...

Fall always kicks off with a trip to Hawks pumpkin patch in Winston Salem.  Joe and I have been visiting this patch even before baby girl entered our lives.  These pumpkins played a special role in our "baby announcement" this year. We got a pumpkin for every member of the family, including a baby pumpkin for our newest addition who at the time we did not know was a boy or a girl.

Getting a 2 year old to look at the camera is a challenge for us!

Always on the move

When Halloween arrived I was a little unsure how Avery would do.  Sometimes she is bubbly and outgoing and others she is timid and shy.  Well Halloween scared the dickens out of her.  She didn't want to walk to the houses without being carried, EVEN with candy as an end result.  She could care less.  We went trick-or-treating with our neighbors at Old Salem and she was clinging to Joe or I and refused to walk by herself.  Poor girl was scared to death of the scary costumes, but I can't really blame her.  That's a lot for a two year old to grasp.

*** pictures coming later (for some reason I don't have them on this computer)


But alas, Minnie Mouse was rescued by her Pirate in shining armor and Carson made her feel safe enough to walk and go to houses.  Next year hopefully she will be brave and show her little sister what trick or treating is all about.  I wonder what little costumes they will have?