Anders in October

Anders has been a fun little buddy this past month. I think he can sense that fall is the best season. I feel bad that Adam has been missing out on so many of our adventures (usually seeing him for 15-20 minutes at night....whomp, whomp), but we've taken advantage of the days he has had off to get out and do all the fall things and I think that deserves a blog post. Plus I would just feel really bad for you if you never saw these pumpkin patch comparison pictures.

  At the "punky patch". Which has been his response to the question "what did you do today?" for the last 3 weeks. And yes, he posed himself for these.

Mr. Independent picking out a punkin. 
 He'll probably be petitioning for emancipation by next fall.

Comparison shot #1: My little squish one year later. 
Still squishy, still handsome, still just a little dazed.

Comparison shot #2: Mom and baby side-by-side to demonstrate how we've both done a little growing this past year. And despite what the sign says that pumpkin is NOT FOR SALE!

We're all looking miraculously semi-decent in this hastily snapped hay ride picture

If it's fall and it's not raining we're at the park. 

 

This little face kills me.

 

 Props to Dad for this amazing fire truck. He loved it and so did his buddies who spent a good portion of the night fighting over who got the next ride.

Happy little "fighter-fighter" on the best night of his life.

"just take us to the candy"

Trick-or-treat tutorial from Dad at the first house

A few houses later he had it down...
and by the end of the night he was really laying it on thick

All holidays are better with kids but Halloween has set the bar pretty high this year. Let's see what Thanksgiving and Christmas can do.

PS...If you just can't get enough of Anders (it's perfectly natural) you're gonna want to check out the Baa Baa Black Sheep video on Vimeo. Anders seems to have inherited his mother's perfect tone.