Tim and I went to a farm out east of Fort Collins with Addie, Emily and Matt today to sit in the pumpkin patch.  Tim loves Charlie Brown's Halloween DVD in which Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin on Halloween night in a pumpkin patch.  Fortunately, there were other things to do like a corn maze and jumping castle.  Otherwise, Tim would have been mightily disappointed.

addie in a bouncy fort

tim and addie in the corn maze with corn

tim, addie, matt and emily with the young pigs

the great pumpkin and a very funny face

strong boy

tricks on the jumping castle

dress-up

Tim and Addie have been playing dress-up for several months at her house because she has things with which to play dress-up, like princess dresses.  One day, Tim switched from wanting to be Cinderella, to wanting to be Aladdin, so I have started to collect some dress-up items.  Having Halloween around the corner has made that easier.  I found a used 'Woody' costume and he wore it every day for a week.  Mom bought him this brand new 'Buzz' costume (he got the wings for Christmas last year) to wear for trick-or-treating.  She gave it to him early when she heard that he'd started enjoying dress-up.

 posing with his hand on his laser button, just like the 'real' buzz, and looking fierce

I found an old crown that I used to use when my students read and acted out Beowulf and am working on putting together a Prince Charming for Tim when he's playing with Addie and wants to be something other than a princess.  I got to teach my 3 year old son how to hold up his skirts when going up and down stairs so that he wouldn't trip.

running man

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sometimes he sits still

about to throw parachute buzz lightyear

sleep? no sank you

03:14.  That’s AM, mind you. 

Hey, guys.  I want to watch a movie. 

Silence

Mommy!

Silence

Mom!  I want to watch a movie.

Tim, shhhhh.  What’s wrong.

Nosing ('th' is either pronounced like an 's' in snake or a d, depending on where it falls in the word and what vowel follows it).  I want to watch a movie.

It’s the middle of the night, Tim.  You’re not watching a movie.  Go back to sleep. 

I don’t want to go back to sleep.  I want my music.

Okay.

Dis Old Man, please.

the mouse pad

Timothy has discovered how to use the mouse pad. We put it on youtube for him so that he could watch the trailer of the new Smurf movie. Gee Gee was going to take him to that, but that's another story. He spent far too much time surfing the videos and we learned a good lesson about monitoring computer time for kids.