A Good Day

Although our finalization/sealing did not happen today, we still made it a good day. Right now, I am sitting here watching the cutest little guy jump in his jumper, with a cute little ghost painted on his cheek. Since this is the year of firsts, we decided to venture out to the 9th annual Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point (all the proceeds benefit a home for young men and young women with special needs, and the academy trains those living there with life skills needed to have independence) and there is so much work that goes into this wonderful event. So here's how our first time at the Scarecrow Festival:

See theses cute bunnies? Harmless, right? Well not if you are an eight month old named Collin. They somehow manage to spring fear into the heart with their cute little hopping and the babies snuggling with their Moms.

And heaven forbid we near the horses/goats. The horses I get: they are huge! But we even tried to near the mini goats, which are smaller than our dog Skip at home.

Not sure why the animals sprung such fear in Collin. Go figure. Even the little chickens were terrifying, and yet Daddy kept trying animal after animal to try and make Collin happy. Sooooo not happening this day. We even tried just taking a break from the animals and trying out the little kids village with miniature houses and shops. Not a fan of that either.

We did find some things that Collin liked. He was a pretty good sport about getting his face painted (either that or the gal that did the face painting was an EXCELLENT baby wrangler.)
We started with Mike holding Collin. That did not seem to work.

So we switched places, and Collin seemed to like that a bit better. Either the separation anxiety was less with me holding Collin or Mike is just the funnier of the two of us, but he seemed to cooperate and let the girl do her work.


It was such a cute little ghost. I will admit, the face painting was more for our benefit. I think it is strange when you lose a child, or when it takes a long time to bring a child into the world. The little things you always look forward to experiencing with your child are the little things you really miss out on. Hence the face painting. But the experience was a lot of fun! And Collin is such a little cutie.


We were pretty hungry after everything, so we went to sit down and grab a small bite to eat. Collin was really being a good sport about the lack of an afternoon nap. He was just being so cute and sweet.

While we were eating, a highway patrol helicopter landed in the field next to where we were eating. If you know Mike at all, you would know that Mike loves anything to do with the police, fire departments, and ambulances (he is somewhat of an ambulance chaser!)

So imagine Mike's delight when he discovered that he could climb into the highway patrol helicopter. Mike after-all is a kid-at-heart. It was neat to see a helicopter up-close.

There was also a pumpkin patch. Growing up, our family would ALWAYS get our pumpkins from a pumpkin patch. Mike's idea of going to pick a pumpkin is going to a local grocery store and picking one out from the front of the store. This beauty is our beloved pumpkin. I am a big fan of cute and unique pumpkins, and since this pumpkin is short and stout (just like me!): I fell in love with it's personality.
We took a few pictures with the pumpkins. Here's Collin and I:

And than of course a picture with our little family:
We really had a fun time. And minus the obnoxious bees (side not here: I am TERRIFIED of bees, after stepping on a yellow jacket nest when I was 8 and being stung 14 times!) it was really a lot fun.

Collin makes us so happy, and we could not love him more. The only thing left now is a nap, which Collin seems to have down pat. Awww... a perfect day!!!