Coupons

Here is a pic of Mike and Evan looking through the "toy coupons" from yesterday's paper.  We're not Black Friday shoppers, in the traditional wake-up-at-3am-and-hit-the-ground-running sense, but Mike has been known to go out during nap time.  (I stay home and partake in nap time - my shopping- which means buying stuff for Mike since he doesn't approve of my timeline he buys for everyone else - starts about December 15 or so....)

Touchdown - all at once!

As you can probably tell, Mike and Evan were watching the Bears game last week.  They were trying to coordinate a touchdown picture, but it took a few tries.  (I just love the Oreo mouth Evan has here.)

The Baker Man!

Evan loves to bake all by himself.  This batch is for home.  I actually have to bake stuff after he goes to bed if I want to share it with others since he loves cooking and baking.

Coloring

Evan has taken to coloring a lot more these days.  Here he is on Friday night with Mike.  According to Evan, Daddy was doing it wrong, so he had to help out. 

HaPPy HaLLoWeeN!

Evan had a great time Trick or Treating tonight!  This is the first year it all made sense to him...kind of.  He originally wanted to be traffic.  I figured out a traffic costume.  (It was a black fleece with yellow tape and Hot Wheels attached to it.)  Once he got it on, he was over it in about 2 minutes.  He's never been a costume kid.  So we went with stuff we already had at home at that point.  Evan was a construction worker.  He was also sure to make that very clear to anyone who called him Bob the Builder.  (He's not a Bob fan.)  He went with Mike and Andria around the neighborhood.  I stayed home and passed out candy to the kids that came around.  They were gone for about an hour, and Evan was a tired boy with red feet when they got home.  We also baked some Halloween cookies this morning. 

4 Years of Pumpkin Patch

Look at how big Evan is getting!  We went and stood next to the growth chart apple at the pumpkin patch yesterday.  Evan is standing all by himself (nobody is making him stand there like in years past).  He's a little taller than 3 feet though - there's a little dip where the kids are supposed to stand.  :-)

 Fall 2007

 Fall 2008

 Fall 2009

Fall 2010

Pumpkin Patch, Bob Evans, and Carving

After work yesterday, I picked up Evan, then Andria, Mike and I all met at Tuttle's to take Evan to the pumpkin patch.  Now, Tuttle's isn't THE pumpkin patch to go to in this area, but it's not quite 15 minutes from home (or the sitter's), it's open until 6 on the weekdays, it's super-cheap ($3 for kids to play and free parking), and we've gone every year since Evan was 4 months old.  Evan had a great time playing.  We even bought a bag of amazing Golden Delicious apples, I priced the blueberry pie I'm buying for Thanksgiving (since I don't do pie well), and we got apple cider slushies (better than you'd expect). 

This morning, I realized my Bob Evan's coupon for a buy one, get one breakfast was going to expire, so we went out for breakfast (my fave).  I've included a picture of Mike and Evan at the table.  Evan was tickled that the name of the restaurant had his name in it too.

We carved our monster pumpkin tonight.  Evan was all about it until he took one look (and one whiff) of the pumpkin innards.  Then, it was all Mom and Dad after that.  He did manage to smile with it when we were finished.