Our First Pumpkin Patch

In college I worked on a farm that had a pumpkin patch and other festivities all during the month of October. I loved seeing families enjoy their time on the farm. I don't know if I ever thought that someday I would take my own children to a pumpkin patch but we did just that a few weekends ago and it was so much fun. The boys loved it and even threw a little fit when it was time to leave so I think we will make this a family tradition.

The boys especially loved the tire swings, digging in the dirt, looking at the animals (I didn't let them touch the animals) and the freedom to walk around and explore the farm. I wasn't sure if it was going to be a hit with the boys but since it was free for them, we couldn't pass it up. Here they are enjoying our family outing.

Different Personalities

Today for lunch we had easy and yet not so healthy dinosaur chicken nuggets. However I like to think that I redeemed myself by having them eat cucumbers, applesauce and a slice of cheese as well.

Anyway, the point of this post is to illustrate just how different they are from each other. Kekoa played with his chicken nuggets as if they were fierce animals growling "ROAR" until he bit the head off. Makaio on the other hand took a few bites until it looked like a vacuum to him and then he pretended to clean his tray for the next 20 minutes.

So different and yet so very lovable!

It's What We Do

Since we have now entered the climbing on everything phase the boys no longer view their toy box as the thing that holds their toys but rather as a toy itself. It makes for a lot more cleaning up but as long as they are happy, I am happy.

Funny Little Ones

While driving in the car the other day I rolled Kekoa's window down and not Makaio's. Makaio looked at Kekoa and said, "Koa, close window!"

Makaio has started to touch his penis every time I change his diaper and I have been trying to teach him that he shouldn't do that. Tonight he did it again and I told him, "Makaio, don't touch your penis." He then replied, "Bye penis." Sterling and I started laughing which just made Makaio proud of his comment.

I was being lazy and so the boys and I were sitting on the kitchen floor sharing a bowl of Cream of Wheat. Kekoa kept standing up and I kept asking him to sit down. Makaio must have heard enough reminders because the next time Kekoa stood up Makaio said, "Koa on bum mom said."

Makaio's new thing is to say, "Daddy do it." The other day we were at the grocery store and I was trying to get him out of the truck and he kept saying, "No, Daddy do it." It was such a pleasant day.

Like Mom

In the last post I talked about how Makaio has started to imitate things that we do and how much I love it. Since then I have been really sad that I couldn't think of anything that Kekoa does to mimic us. That was until the other day when I heard him proudly declaring "glasses" over and over again. When I looked at him I found him sporting a pair of Mr. Potato Head's glasses just so he could be like me! That really made me happy that he wants to be like me but little does he know that wearing glasses isn't really all that glamorous. For know I will just let him enjoy the glasses because I enjoy looking at him while he wears them all around the house.