Our Little Croc

Our neighborhood gets a lot of traffic on Halloween. We invited the junior high and senior high youth from church over to play costume bingo and pass out candy. Jonathan and I dressed as the Irwins (Crocodile Hunter and wife), and Ross went as our crocodile. He was uber-cute, per usual. I'd like to add that our town celebrated on the 30th this year because the "powers that be" decided we couldn't have trick-or-treating on Sunday night due to church services. So Anna allowed trick-or-treating from 5-8pm on Saturday. One more thing to add to our "this town's a little bizarre" list.

Pumpkin Patch!

While in St. Louis, we visited the Midwest's oldest and largest pumpkin patch. Ross and his cousin, Layla, were kind enough to let us take advantage of photo opps. There were so many pumpkins and so much to take in! I know Ross will be excited for next year when he can run around the patch with Layla.

Animal lovers should go to the zoo

Since Ross has shown such enthusiasm toward animals, we decided to visit the zoo on a last-minute trip to St. Louis. He had a great time and especially loved the bears, the penguin/puffin house, and a random duck quacking at us through a fence. As fun as the zoo was, it seemed his most favorite animal was Grammie's dog. We've never heard more giggles!

Grandpa's Visit

Grandpa recently came to visit and to help Jonathan work on the exterior of the house. He and Ross have more in common than the blue eye thing: fishing hats!

We packed a lot into the weekend, including Ross' first time in a public highchair. He had fun sitting in his own seat, but it was a challenge keeping him from chewing on the table....

Ross' friend, Drake, celebrated his first birthday and it was exciting to get Ross' first party invitation in the mail and to go wish Drake a happy one.

Drake's house had donkeys and between those and playing outside with our cats while the guys worked on the siding, we realized Ross really likes animals.