Kylie May and a 2 for 1 Day 228

Guilty as charged....that's me. Or perhaps a better plea would be "No contest".  Yes I did it (or actually didn't do it), but there was a 16 pound (or close to it) 29 inch reason why the blog didn't get posted last night.  I have discovered that our best plan of attack on those nights that Nat is gone to work, is to bounce her to sleep on our exercise ball (the name should get changed to "the bounce Kylie to sleep ball, because that's all it gets used for), and then sit in the La-Z-Boy and rock her until I'm ready for bed.  If I try the "put her down and see how long it lasts" game I always end up back on the ball 30 minutes later.  Therein lies the rub (I know it sounds better when Hamlet says it, but I'm a work in progress), it is difficult to post a blog while rocking a baby in the recliner.  I'll keep working on the logistics though for next week.

Sunday: A day at the busiest pumpkin patch I have ever seen.  Granted it has been a long time since I visited a pumpkin patch, but in my most vivid patch memories there are a few scattered people (maybe a little busy right before the Halloween) walking around find themselves a Jack-O-Lantern in the making.  All I have to say is, "My how those pumpkin patches have changed!".  I'm pretty sure Kylie is gonna think Disneyland (if we ever take her. We might just keep going back to the field with all the orange vegetables) is lame compared to our pumpkin adventure.  There are rides, games, prizes, petting zoo, face painting, acrobat shows, souvenir shop, corn maze, ATV racing, hay rides, and about anything else you can think of that you wouldn't expect at the field-o-pumpkins.

Nat and I were amazed to say the least.  Kylie and Liam (yep. Emily and Jessie met us there with their little one for a photo op)? Well there of a different generation and have just come to expect such extravagant spectacles...even in the mundane vegetable fields of life.  They did seem to have fun taking pictures (at least we pretend they have fun to rationalize all the shutter action), and playing in the petting zoo.  Kylie unveiled this years Halloween outfit, and she was cute.

After finding the biggest pumpkin she could (and of course one that I couldn't possible manage to carry) we shimmied our way through crowd and thought "now was it lot F or G that we parked in" hmmm....when you have to remember which lot you were in at the pumpkin patch something is just a little out of wack.  All in good fun though. We had a blast, Kylie seemed to enjoy herself, the Odonells had some fun, and lots of good pictures were taken.  What a nice Sunday.

Monday:  Now that we are up-to-date (and I'm sure you are thinking...they need to stay on top of this daily blog thing so that I don't have to read a novel every other day) we can talk about all that didn't happen today. As exciting as yesterday's adventure was, a mellow Monday was in the cards for all of us the morning, afternoon, and night.  Kylie got to play with her Papa Gene for about 4 hours today (while I recovered from my night with the wee one and Nat recovered from a night at the hospital).  Papa Gene's sentiments when I went to pick up Kylie this afternoon, "She is a lot easier during the day."  Yep, it's not that she isn't fun at night, it's just that less sleep is involved".

A little cheer leading at my flag football game tonight (we still have yet to lose when Kylie and Nat are at the games) we just about all the little spark plug could take before her engine shutdown. She is now fast asleep, happy to have her momma and daddy home with her tonight.

more to come soon,

Craig

"Are you my mother?"

A pumpkin for our pumpkin