Where is Pumpkin?

Sticking with the theme from Andrew's version of the "Where is Thumbkin", we spent the day in the pumpkin patch at Irvine Regional park. Despite the 80 degree weather, flip-flops and sunscreen, everyone was in the fall mood and got into the spirit of the season. We capped off a train ride around the park with a few laps through the hay maze, some cotton candy, a nice bike ride and, of course, some time browsing through the pumpkins. So how did the day go you, you ask? Very well, I thank you. Enjoy.

Owen's First Pumpkin

It's All Gourd to Me


I Found a Little One

It's for the Boys

Fairest of them all

Today we went to Irvine's Global Festival. It's an annual event at a city park with lots of food booths and booths set up by community businesses. We were sitting in the shade enjoying the Hawaiian dancers when a women came over to us to ask for sunscreen. We gave it to her without a second thought. Then she said "I just looked around for the fairest people and I knew I'd find some." Hmm, we may be the whitest people in Irvine - amazing.

Exhibit A

Here's the Saturday newspaper AFTER Eric has read it. I think its folded better now than when it arrived.

Day trip

When Eric and I were dating it seemed like we went on an adventure every week. I told him "you make every weekend seem like vacation." One of our first trips was to San Pedro to visit the Korean Friendship Bell. It's a quick thirty minutes away. The Friendship Bell is incredibly large and built on a hill top bluff park overlooking the Pacific. Last weekend we went there again with the kids. Last time I hadn't even noticed the big playground.

The big bell is in the big pagoda pavilion

Andrew Flying

Me and the boys

Andrew climbing


Riding the seal

Going down the slide

See ya!

Owen 6 months

Owen is six months old! He still is a happy, happy baby. He laughs and smiles very easily. He has another tooth coming in, right next to the first one. So he's drooling alot. His sleeping is getting much better. He took a three hour nap yesterday and last night only woke up twice, briefly at midnight, then at four. So the parental units are getting a little more sleep around here.

Owen is an ACTIVE baby. He army crawls all over the place and is just about to get up on his knees to start crawling properly. When we put him on the floor he can move, he makes a b-line to the toys, usually Andrew's toys. We've had to separate these two a couple of times. Andrew isn't always in a sharing mood.

Owen's six month doctors appointment is next month. When I rescheduled his appointment for the afternoon (now that my afternoons are free), the next available time was October 24th! So, I'll have some statistics next month. Two weeks ago we went to urgent care because Owen had a fever. He had an ear infection - he's better now. His weight at the time was 19.2 pounds. He's outgrown the twelve month outfits and is now into eighteen month outfits. (Andrew can still wear twenty-four month outfits, Owen may catch up soon!)

Owen's continuing with solid food. He's eating cereal in the morning, and pureed fruits and vegetable at lunch, then cereal in the evening. He loves to eat fresh fruit. We bought him a Baby-safe feeder that we can plop peices of fresh fruit into and he loves to chew on it. Strawberries are his favorite so far.

He's a great little baby and pretty fun to have around.

Typical Owen :)

First ride down the slide with Dad

What?

I'm going to get you!

Here I come!

Oops, I fell asleep at the table

Later!