Carving Pumpkins

Each Halloween I always want to carve pumpkins, but I seem to be the only one interested in doing it so it never gets done. This year, I was determined to make Clark's first Halloween a memerable experince, I'm sure more for us then for him, but he can later look at the pictures.





Clark helping me clean out the pumpkins



Argg, I forgot how difficult and messy cleaning out pumpkins can be.

Clint at work on his pumpkin.



The lepor pumpkin that we originally got for Clint, but it was rotting.

More work on the pumpkins.





Here Mom, let me help and then I'll try to eat some to make sure it's good.




Clark loved munching on the raw pumpkin pieces. The plant that is next to him is also a favorite to "taste." He does more pulling the leaves off and then I take them out of his hand before he eats them. We better leave soon before he strips this plant of all it's leaves.

I'm not the one to worry about...

It's grandpa that you need to worry about...

I'm the innocent one...

Pumpkin carving takes a lot of consintration.



Grandpa decided to take on the lepor pumpkin.





More pictures of Clark assisting in the pumpkin carving.





Clark and our friend Bruce.

Pumpkin Patch

Saturday Clint and I took Clark to the Pumpkin Patch at Irvine Park. I picked this particular pumpkin patch because it had more activites like this train and a hay ride and a haunted house, that I thought would be really fun. There also is a zoo on the park grounds, that we were going to go through, but it was getting close to Clark's nap time and we decided to get him home instead. So if he looks a little carnky, it's because he's tired and he wasn't really sure what to do with all the people and activites going on.
Clark's first experince waiting in a line for something fun.

Us on the train.






There was a hay maze there too and so we took Clark out of the strolle rand let him walk around the maze. He through that was awesome and it was so much fun seeing the expressions on his face.
We also went through a littel museum they had. There was stuffed animals like a bear and a mountain lion chasing deer and Clark through they were amazing to look it. He really liked the bear and tried to talk to it. :)

Fun with Clark

Yesterday Clark decided it would be a great day to see how gravity works. He was in his crib in our room and crying a little, normal behavior for him, and then he screamed. I went in there and found him on the floor. Terrified me, and I think him too. I am pretty sure he used the bumpers on his bed to climb over the side and didn't know what to do from there or just fell. He tries to do that off our bed, just heads for the edge puts his hands infront of him and goes for it. Clint and I have always been there to catch him from our bed, but we thought his crib was still safe. Apparently not!

Trying to get him to take his nap in his crib that afternoon was impossible and so Clint thankfully had the wonderful idea of going to the beach. It's great that we could just jump in the car and go to the beach. Here are some pictures.






Clark's just like me and hates the sand. It's awesome because he just sat on our towels and I could actually relax and enjoy the beach. We did go walk closer to the water and chased some seagulls too.








Clint and I needed some relaxation after dealing with the house buying process. We were suppose to close escrow yesterday but at the last minute some genious figured out that the condo complex hadn't been checked to be approved for FHA, so now we're waiting for that. Why couldn't these "geneous" people have thought of that, oh I don't know, maybe day 1 instead of day 44 of the 45 day escrow.

Little baby footprints in the sand make you stop stressing and think about wonderful baby stuff. :)


Classic California beach photo.


Watching the sun set.




Oh and Clark looked a little grumpy in a lot of the beach photos, so I'm including these to show you that he really is a happy boy. I was looking at my last blog post and saw that he didn't look that happy on my birthday either. He's been going through getting teeth and learning how to walk, and I'm sure those are all frustrating things. So here's some pictures of my smiling little boy.


Clark's first time in the little car infront of the shopping cart.