Fun Campaign Buttons

Here are some fun buttons we ordered online recently, you can try guessing who goes with which button.  

The website is www.democraticstuff.com/  if you want to order stuff or just get a kick out of the catalog

Pumpkin Patch

So there is this great farm just outside of Tucson that has a fall festival each autumn.  Pumpkin picking, hay rides, petting zoo, food, music, and a hay-bale maze.  We went last year too and decided to make it an annual tradition.  Here's Griff chasing the goats around:

We also got Griffin on the pony ride.  He had been telling us for a while he wanted to ride a horse, but we didn't even know it was going to be an option, they didn't have it last year.  It was pretty safe, helmets and even a seatbelt.  He loved it.

Here's us just after we picked some pumpkins right off the vine, we chose smallish ones because they are primarily for jack'o'lanterns, and we don't want the rotting too quickly.  Plus we had to carry them.

Matilda slept for almost the entire time, here she is on the hay ride looking groggy:

Next post will probably have us carving them.

New interests

Here are a few more recent pictures.  We took the kids to a mini golf course which was very fun for Griffin.  He's not really into the rules and such but he really liked the holes where you knock a ball into a hole and it comes out on a lower green.  He kept running back and forth dropping the balls down and racing back to get there ahead of it.  Here are Griff and Brie: 

A couple days ago Griffin decided Matilda was hungry.  He went into the pantry, took down her rice cereal, put it in a bowl, added water, grabbed a spoon, and mixed it up all by himself.  He came to get me and told me he had made Matilda's lunch.  I was so impressed I let him feed her.  Now if we could only teach him to change diapers.

Griffin gets on these "kicks".  Lately he's really into knights and castles and dragons.  He saw the movie Sword & the Stone (not bad..) and got a book on it too.  He makes up scenarios and uses a drumstick as a magic wand.  He said he now wants to be a knight for Halloween and we were going to make him an outfit, but then we found this set for 7 dollars at a thrift store.  It seemed like a no-brainer.

Here's Griffin and his friend Max having a sword fight outside.  They are using foam swords that are actually pretty safe.  

Sometimes Griffin can't decide whether he wants to be Spider-Man or a knight for Halloween.  Yesterday he said he wants to wear both costumes.  Spidey on the bottom with the knight helmet and chest plate over it.  Pretty creative I think.  There'll be pictures.

He also saw Wall*E (twice) and he's really into that.  He quotes the movie and calls me Eva, and tries to imitate the voices.  YouTube has a bunch of promotional shorts and I made the mistake of showing them to Griffin one morning when we were just sitting around.  Now whenever he sees me on the computer he climbs up and request the Wall*E movies.  Very funny.  Incidentally the movie was great, so I'm fine with it.  At least it's not Shrek or Scooby-Do or something inane.

Griffin likes to feed the ducks

Here are a few pictures:

Water fun

Someone gave us a slip'n'slide back at Christmas.  Didn't think about it again untill just recently.  We thought it was a lot of fun!  Griffin wasn't all that keen on running and diving onto the slide, he's still somewhat cautious, but he liked to hang on my back while I did.

Matilda liked to get into the action too.  We used the outlet hose from the slip'n'slide to fill the pool to maximize water usage.  And we didn't water our lawn for about two weeks after this.  The last picture is Spider-Man scaring Matilda.

Wednesday

We bought another computer last week.  It's a lot like our previous one (Mac laptop) but has tons of cool new features, like a camera built in to let you take pictures of yourself, or web chats.  Also has a DVD burner so I can finally put home movies on a disc.  Here is Matilda and I.  Seeya soon.