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As using knives is a bit much to ask of a three year old, we choose the "Mrs. Potato Head" approach to decorating pumpkins this year. I will confess to waiting WAY too long to purchase said pumpkins and we ended up with just this one. As we had two complete sets of "faces" to decorate, I decided the coming and going approach would be perfect.

It took a bit more "adult supervision" than I anticipated as an ice pick was required to drill holes for the various pieces. Thanks Ben for hanging out and taking these pictures of your girls.

Mallory is FASCINATED with talking on the phone and ichat-ing, so these "Diva" pumpkin pieces are rather appropriate for her pumpkin-provided it is a method of self expression.

I thought the clown was pretty cute. But Mallory's favorite BY FAR was "Diva Pumpkin." I kid you not, that's how the package was labeled.   

Happy pumpkin decorating!

Sunday after lunch, we headed to the pumpkin patch with Nonnie and Pape. I love the pumpkins piled in front of the Christmas trees! Mallory loved climbing over all the "mountains" of pumpkins. 

Mallory wanted to sit on this giant turkey-I was amazed that she asked for these two photos

not much fun had here……then we moved on to the unique & much smaller pumpkins.

Lots of fun!! Thanks Nonnie and Pape!

Because we all know preschoolers need a fall break…since we had Monday off, and my "stay home" enforcement begins shortly, we took one last trip to Houston. It's hard to tell who is more excited here 🙂

Puppets, playing chase, fishing in the swimming pool, climbing the slides at the park: all on day 1.

Before we arrived, Nonnie and Aunt Jenn went to a yarn extravaganza. I was like a rainbow exploded in their family room. I am looking forward to wearing some of the "art" once it's knitted and doing some of the knitting myself. Who knew I would like knitting!?!?!? 

Super pretty stuff!!

Last week we went to a local apple orchard. We learned about apples, apple trees, apple cider, bees, pollination, and had a glorious time!

the bees-we didn't get too close despite LOTS of curiosity. She's decided she wants to be a bumble bee for Halloween (until she finds the PBK catalog and spots the cupcake costume again.)

Picking our apple. We've had 12-13 inches of rain in the past several weeks. It's played havoc with the apple crop and we were asked to pick only 1 apple, and they were all the quality you see here!

playing with the antique apple cider press

And last but not least, the pumpkins, scarecrows, and hay bales. Yes, we got in trouble for climbing all over, but it was totally worth it as the girl was safe and had a BLAST!

Last Sunday afternoon we attended a birthday party for our neighbor's son. He and Mallory are about 2 weeks apart in age. We were thrilled to get out on a beautiful afternoon and Mallory was THRILLED to go visit the swings. She's growing so much and while she still loves the bucket swing (we will push her higher) she is quickly mastering the belt swings.

loving the swings and Daddy

I love these shoes!
 

Cutie neighbor and Mater-he had a Cars themed birthday. They had individualized the take home bags and Mallory's was filled with shininess and sweets. Oh the bling, she was SO EXCITED to get these rings the big pink and a puppy, a sparkly purple necklace and two hair clip-ies. Yes, she is wearing all of it and giddy with delight. Happy Birthday L.