Pumpkin pickin'.....

We took Joel to a couple of pumpkin places today after lunch at IHOP (Rob's favorite!). Joel did really well at lunch, but fell asleep just before we got to the petting zoo. Once he saw the animals, he woke up in a hurry! We saw chickens, lambs, goats, a pony, and a donkey. The pony was Joel's favorite. He was pretty brave and got right up against the fence. He touched the pony several times and was yakking a lot and pointing at him. He didn't like it when the pony walked away or when someone else wanted to see the pony! We did see some pumpkins, but Joel was much more interested in the carts they had to put the pumpkins on. He didn't pay any attention to the pumpkins at all! Oh well.....I explained to him that sometimes we do things just to make Mommy happy! I'm not sure if we will attempt to carve the pumpkin or not......Anyway, Joel turns 19 months old tomorrow. It truly doesn't seem possible. He wears us out and drives us crazy sometimes, but we wouldn't trade it for anything! More later....