Harvesting is Hard Work

Never send a man to do a woman's job. That's my mantra after today :) Thad's good hunting buddy, Matt, invited Bubba to come and ride in his John Deere combine. It was kind of a boy thing so it wouldn't have been too cool for the Mommy to tag along for blog pictures.

I put my camera into the hands of my husband and made one simple request "Please Thad, you don't have to take pictures all afternoon, just one picture of him in the combine." "Kers - I can handle it. Don't worry..."

Well the camera was forgotten in the car so here is the picture (taken by me in the driveway when they got home) capturing their day of fun where Bubba got to ride not only a combine but a tractor and a four-wheeler too. Matt's mom gave him a bag of Halloween candy to eat on the way home so he has chocolate on his face as he dreams of the day he can be a farmer driving his own combine.

Crazy Girl

I've been wanting to catch this crazy smile with the camera for quite awhile. This is her "I'm really silly and happy and trying to get your attention face". In this pic it may be because she's eating her favorite thing - cold black beans :)

Look at these "long & leans" - love this happy face and the exercise she gets in the Jumperoo because she doesn't walk or crawl yet

Parking Lots

I told Bubba that I wanted to post some pics of him because I was posting the Crazy SBG ones and here are the pictures he wanted to go on the blog - his parking lots. Since the basement has been out of commission with the carpet drying we've been having many adventures in parts of the house that usually don't get played in. My kitchen chairs have made for great parking lots in the past week.

My New Favorite Treat

Only 150 calories in a Mini one. They hooked me with a coupon in the Sunday paper. Those marketing people know how to sucker me in :)

A Day at the Pumpkin Farm

We took advantage of the gorgeous day and drove about an hour to what will become a new family tradition - a family run pumpkin farm. Our first stop after parking in the muddy field (due to the 5-6 days of rain we had last week) was to feed the goats. Bubba started out trying to be very frugal with his goat food, giving them one little morsel at a time. Soon he realized, with a little help from Dad, that just offering a handful was a better strategy for attracting them.

SBG enjoyed them too but she kept calling them "puh, puh" - her syllable for puppies.

Next stop was Maizie (the fake milk cow) - Bubba loved "milking" her. I'm sure Papa and Grandpa Jack would have been very proud of his diligent technique :)

Climbing a fence to get to the next stop...

the TRACTOR - here's my future FFA member checking the gears

SBG gets a ride too

The reason this will be an annual event - to measure their growth of course.

The favorite of the day was the cow ride. Bubba picked the front car, named Bessie, right next to the tractor.

Daddy & SBG hanging out while waiting for the cow rider.