Mid-October Update

We've been enjoying the fall season. We've been to the Apple Orchard with Grandma Jeske. Took a scary trailer ride out to pick some apples, fed some goats and were done in under an hour. Perfect outing for a 3 yr old and 9 month old. To point out what a city boy we are raising, as we turned onto the gravel road to the orchard, Jacob says "why are we driving on this trail?" He's been on gravel roads before, but obviously not enough.

Gavin & Jacob at the Orchard

Jacob with Grandma Jeske on the trailer at the orchard.

We've also make a trip to a pumpkin patch. We have pumpkins from Joe & Alyssa's patch, but Jacob and his friend Kyle have such a good time running through the pumpkin patch and picking their own pumpkins, we made the trip over to one in Shakopee and Jacob got to pick one pumpkin. He did have so much fun, so much in fact he had a potty accident at the far end of the field. Arg. With boys its so easy to go potty where ever needed, so I was a little irritated at by the "accident". So alas the road of potty training does not run smooth.

Jacob and Gavin at the pumpkin patch.

We saw a couple performances over the weekend. Jacob and I went to St Cloud for Peter Pan at the Paramount on Saturday with Alyssa, Maddie, Isaac and Grandma J. That was a fun show with many of the characters flying around the stage. Then, Fred got free tickets from work to Playhouse Disney Live. So we got to go see that on Sunday. Jacob loved it. We got to see the Little Einsteins, Mickey, Minnie, Pooh, Tigger and Handy Manny. It was a nice short show and Jacob managed to eat 2 hot dogs in the midst of singing, dancing and clapping. The kid who never has an interest in eating begs for a second hot dog when they run $3.50, go figure.

Jacob has been doing well in school. Just one playground fight so far. He gives me no info about his days, hopefully the teacher will fill me in at conferences in a couple weeks. They do say he shares well and listens well. Not such a good listener at home, so its good to hear he's better at school, I guess. He does have a special friend, Maggie, apparently they are inseperable and they like to play Wonder Pets on the playground. Jacob went on his first field trip today. They went to a farm and saw cows, chicken and a cat. Wow!

Fred returned from Vegas none the richer this year. He came back even last year and paid for his trip, so he had high hopes, but no luck this year. Next week he is off to Alabama for work, all week! I am not looking forward to that. He had the option to go to Canada, but they won't let him in for a couple years due to his accident back in '99.

I got to go to the season opener of the Wild. They won and it was a fun night out with the girls. I have another girls night tomorrow night. With Fred taking classes 2 nights a week, I need all the nights out I can get. Adrea does come take Jacob on Tuesday nights for gymnastics and then helps me with bed time, so that is nice.

Gavin is a great baby at this time. He's sleeping better, usually through the night. He loves to crawl around and explore. He'll sit and play with different toys for a while and is just easy to entertain. He makes kissing sounds and was waving the other day, but I can't get him to do it again. He loves the dogs and hugs and kisses them when they let him get close.

Gavin thinks he's very clever cruising around furniture.

As a final thought, today in the car I told Jacob something was a "good idea" and he said "you mean a quesidilla".