We began the Fall season with trips to 3 different pumpkin patches/farms leading up to Halloween. It was a great place to take the boys on beautiful Saturdays. I think Joey and Jack's favorite activity was riding the kiddie size tractors followed by sliding down a hill on potato sacks! If you asked Joey he would say getting his face painted like Spiderman was the best thing of all. (Do you remember Spiderman from the TX State Fair last year?) Surprisingly, Jackson wanted his face painted too, so he was our little Tiger. I would have to say that the farm we went to last, Baugher's, was #1 overall (although I didn't really appreciate the deer tick that Joey brought home with him). The boys were able to ride ponies, get their face painted, go to a petting zoo and take a long hay ride to pick their pumpkins off the vine. It made Joe and I chuckle watching Joey try to pick his pumpkin. You know him, it had to be perfect AND still on the vine. We weren't leaving until it was found! Jack just picked one and sat on it. I can't wait to do it again next year!
Joey picked his Halloween costume on the day that the 1st PBK costume catalog came in the mail...an airplane. There was no question about it and he wanted the treat bag shown in the picture too. I then asked him what Jack was going to be and he said, "Mom, Jack is going to be an airplane too". As Joey said, he would be Maverick and Jack would be Viper (Top Gun). So, we were on a Halloween countdown from the first of October. The weekend began with a Halloween parade at Joey's school on Friday. All of the "little kids" parade through campus and show the parents and the "big girls" their costumes. It was a family affair as Daddy flew in that morning and Jack walked with us as well. I loved watching the girls' reactions to my little jets. I know I am biased, but I think they were the hit of parade! When Sunday FINALLY arrived, the questions kept coming... kind of like when you are on a long road trip and keep asking how much longer. As we walked out of the garage, Joey took off like a jet. Jack, on the other hand, was glad to be wearing his costume but was still going to be chauffeured to each house in the wagon. They got better at saying "trick or treat" as the night wore on and Jack played the "you can't resist my cuteness" card from the very beginning. He would linger at the door long after Joey was running down the steps....kinda like "really, that is all, are you sure you don't want to give me some more?". And he would get more EVERY TIME! It is so much fun to watch them grow and think back on how they have changed from one year to the next. I think about Joey's first Halloween and how he, in his kangaroo costume, and I sat outside on the steps and waited for trick or treaters while he slobbered all over the candy. And Jack was only 3 weeks old when he was a pea-in-the-pod...sleeping through the whole event.
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