Welcome Fall!

Today we took Joel "pumpkin hunting" and to Toledo to go to Babies R Us and IHOP(guess where Daddy was most excited to go!) First we stopped at a roadside stand and took some pictures and got Joel his pumpkin. He was so cute! We set him in the pumpkins and he just patted them and grabbed the stems. He tried to lick them, but we stopped him before he could do that. Then we went to Johnson's Orchard to see some farm animals that Joel and I had seen with Grandma on Saturday. Joel was getting pretty sleepy, but he liked the animals, especially the chickens and the goat. That goat came right up to the fence and Joel never flinched or anything....he just stuck out his hand. He wasn't a fan of the cow, but the cow was disgusting and covered with flies so I couldn't blame him for that! We took some more pictures with the pumpkins there, but by the time we did that Joel was done. He fell asleep in the car on the way to the store, where we were checking on bigger car seats. Then we went to IHOP for dinner. Joel was well behaved for the most part, but PawPaw taught him the "raspberry" yesterday and he has been doing it non-stop ever since, which makes dinner a long (and messy) process. We finally got home around 8:30 and took a walk. After that, the boy was DONE with a capital "D". He was fussy and cranky and fell asleep during his 9:30 bottle. He is still sleeping, so hopefully he will sleep past 4:00am. He slept a little later this morning, so maybe he is through this little pattern he had developed. I hope so! More later...