Fall Fun

Miss Freyja has a busy end of the month set up for her! The above picture was taken Oct 21st when we headed out to Holland Farms Peanut Farm, they also have a pumpkin patch and a ton of sunflowers. Holland Farms is about 20min past mom's house so we left Jaxon with mom and Ed after we went grocery shopping and Bugg and I headed out there for some fall fun. After roaming the pumpkin patch and getting lost in the maze of sunflowers we went on THE LONGEST hayride ever!!! We ate peanuts straight out of the field (very earthy tasting!), I got a bowl of their cajun flavored boiled and man were they good!!

Jaxon turned 10wks old on Oct 26th!!! My baby is now in the double digits...how depressing, he's getting too big too fast dangit!! One day last week he went to bed at 830pm and didn't get up til 5am to nurse then went back to sleep til 7am, this kid LOVES his sleep!! October 18th was his 2month check up, he was 12.3lbs and 24in long putting him in the 75th percentile. He stays awake much longer now, he still cries a ton during the day especially on weekdays when in order to get stuff done I have to lay him down and not able to carry/hold him every second of the day. My little man just graduated to size 2 diapers and 3-6month clothing...theres just no slowing him down!

Monday, Oct 25th we went to the fair as a family. I wasn't positive Freyja would ride anything but it was worth a try. Dora and Diego (cartoon characters) were scheduled to be there that night so we figured that would be a good night to take her, we had free admission tickets so that made it even more enticing!! Dora and Diego ended up having a line literally a mile long so we just bought ride tickets and had fun that way. We bought a sheet of 22 tickets (rides cost 3-5 tickets yet inevitably they give you some funky number of tickets so that you have some left over or have to buy more to use them all) and the girl in the booth wasn't paying any attention and ended up giving us 44 tickets instead :) So we spent our "freebies" by all going on the ferris wheel, it was Davids first time on ferris wheel and Freyja and Jaxon's first fair rides ever. (More pictures are in the Picasa album) Freyja rode a handful of rides, most of them by herself but there was one that she really wanted to ride that she had to go with us and that was the "Kite Flyer", you lay on your belly and get strapped in and fly around in circles. She loved this one so much she had to go twice, I went the first time with her and nearly had a nervous breakdown...not from the ride but from the fear of what if she started to fall off, how could I save her. David went the second time after laughing at me for my "irrational fear" but after getting up there he knew what I meant :) I wore Jaxon while we walked around, he received TONS of smiles and compliments! He stayed awake almost the entire time, he loved the lights and sounds and did his little "marching" thing the majority of the time he was in the wrap because he was so excited and wanted out to play too! Poor guy gave up the fight just as we left the fair and fell asleep in the wrap...only to wake up in the car and cry the ENTIRE way home because he was wet,hungry and over tired. We finally got home around 8pm, comforted Jaxon, fixed Freyja a grilled turkey and cheese, read a couple of bedtime stories which she barely made it through and we were all in bed and asleep by 930pm!

Next on our agenda is a bunch of Halloweenie stuff, costume parties and trick or treating!! Stay tuned and next week I'll elaborate on our Halloweening and post costume pictures!! Love to you all :)