Toil and Trouble

Tomorrow is Halloween so over the past few weeks we have been doing the normal things, getting pumpkins, deciding on costumes, buying costumes, changing our minds and returning costumes, cleaning out pumpkins, making costumes and carving pumpkins. You know the everyday adventures.

We started the whole adventure at Rocky Ridge Orchards in Bowdoin. They have plenty of things for the kids to do, ride toy tractors, a big swing in the barn and the treat for the boys is the wagon ride around the orchard. Oh did I mention they make their own donuts and pastries.

I really thought Boy 1 would dig right into the pumpkins when we were cleaning them out...........no way. He reached in once and that was it until all of the guts were out! Boy 2 on the other hand, the one that will eat anything kept picking at the guts and putting them in his mouth. The amazing thing with him is he would have a look of disgust on his face when tasting it, but that wouldn't stop him from doing it again a minute later, what a rocket scientist!

Monkey See Monkey Do......Part II

At supper the other night Boy 2 decided to be funny......................so that means Boy 1 would quickly follow right behind.

Get Lost Kid

So Saturday we went to Pumpkin Valley Farm in Dayton (West of Saco) with Grampy Dave, Becky, Aunt Sheila and Kevin. They have a six acre Corn Maize. At various spots you were given trivia questions, if you answered it correctly it would give you the answer whether to turn left or right. If you guessed wrong you do a big circle and come back to re-answer the question. This place was very cool, the theme of the maize was cut out to be "Under the Sea". It had a lobster, octopus and the title all cut into the corn stalks. They also had an entire playground, "Corn Gun" and petting area for the kids. We planned on taking a wagon ride to pick pumpkins from their patch but the skies turned pretty threatening and their snack bar did not have much to offer so we had to leave for food before any meltdowns.

This was a big sand box made of corn kernals...............the boys loved it!!

Social Experiment

Well tonight we moved Boy 2's crib into Boy 1's room to see how well they will sleep together in the same room. We are taking out the wall that seperates their rooms (the one behind Boy 2's crib in the pic) so that they can share 1 big bedroom. Right now each of their rooms are rather small, especially Boy 2's. We figure its better to test this out before we tear a wall down and find they are not ready.

So right now we are 12 minutes into the experiment and all we hear is giggling on the monitor...........we are kicking ourselves for not placing a video camera in the room!!!