Pumpkin Pics

These are the pumpkins we got a couple weekends ago at the pumpkin farm. The big one I got with the intention of putting Andy in it for photos. He fit, but might have been more comfortable in a bigger one! He didn't complain too much, though. The new porch lends itself nicely as a backdrop for these photos!



Here's this year's carved pumpkin (this is the huge pumpkin I put Andy in). I saw a few similar carvings online and thought I'd give it a shot. I didn't really have the right tools for the job, and this took a bit longer than I'd anticipated. All told, it probably took about 5 hours to carve, but I was half-watching (more listening to) TV during most of that time. I do think it turned out pretty well, though!


We have a few costumes for Andy, but three of them are 9 month size and the rest are 24 month or bigger...and he's mostly in 12 month clothes right now. So if none of those end up fitting, we can always go with this. A drawn on goatee is a possible accessory!

5th tooth

Andy's front middle top right tooth broke through today, so he's now up to 5 teeth! And it looks like the left one isn't too far behind. He's already enjoying testing them out - but he doesn't like the response he gets (a stern "no biting") when he does so on my arms and legs!

Cumming Greek Fest

While Jamie stayed home with Andy, Kaylee and I went with some friends to the local Greek Festival. We didn't stay long - just long enough for the girls to jump in a bouncy house and go down a bouncy slide a few times, plus have dinner. Here's a cute photo of the 3 girls we took! Kaylee, Ellie & Delaney

Pumpkin Farm

We took Kaylee, Andy & a friend (Erin) to Kinsey Family Farm on Saturday. We took pictures (obviously), tried to feed the catfish, but I guess they were stuffed (we could see some swimming just below the surface, but none came up to eat), tried to feed the goats and cows, but they didn't want the crackers (there were plenty lying on the ground by their feet), though they would munch on an apple we offered and picked out pumpkins!

We bought 7 pumpkins and an apple gourd (like the green "pumpkin" on the haystacks behind/above the kids in the first photos) that are currently sitting on our front steps (5 of the pumpkins are the tiny ones, so we didn't really go way overboard).

For Andy's first visit to the farm, he did pretty well! We packed lunches and ate when we first got there (just before noon) then did all the fun stuff without having to break for lunch. It worked out well, since Andy was happy enough at first, but conked out shortly after we took some pictures. I think the sun did him in! It was nice weather, but luckily we'd worn long sleeves - I think it was close to 80 degrees, but it was very windy! The next day Andy even had rosy cheeks from a bit of windburn!






Kaylee has two identical pairs of shoes. I didn't realize until we'd been at the farm about an hour that she was wearing the two left ones! It didn't seem to bother her, at least.

4 Teeth

Andy's top right lateral incisor (the one just to the right of the front middle incisors) finally cut through the gums this afternoon! So he now has 4 teeth. I'm wondering when the middle two will decide to make an appearance...if not soon, maybe all he'll want for Christmas is his two front teeth?

More teeth!

As of Sunday (or maybe earlier?) Andy has a third tooth that popped through and another that looks very close. He already has the bottom middle two, and I expected the top middle two to be next, but he chose to follow his own path and it's the two on either side of the top middles ones that are through/coming through next! Probably why I didn't notice the one that had popped through until I saw it on accident.

Mystery Reader

On Friday, Andy and I went to surprise Kaylee's class as the Mystery Reader (and baby guest). I took two of Kaylee's books and read them to the class at the end of their school day. It was fun to surprise her (and everyone) and to meet all the other kids.

2011 Atlanta Greek Festival

Jamie spent the day with his dad and some friends at the Petit Le Mans (car race) while Kaylee, Andy, Baba and Aunt Sharon went to my parents' house to go to the Atlanta Greek Festival with them. Andy was not too thrilled with it; I think it was too loud, too cold, and too close to nap time for his taste! He did manage to get in a little nap in the stroller, at least.

Kaylee had fun on the rides. She liked the fast swing one best; it was the first and last one she rode and by the end it was getting pretty cold in the shade...as she was demonstrating with her "I'm freezing!" face as she was waiting to get off the ride.

Sleepy baby

This is what we found when we went into Andy's room this morning. Usually he's awake and waiting for us, but today he fell asleep again before we got him (Jamie said he heard him talking early - around 6am). Isn't he just the cutest sleeping baby?!