Pumpkin Patch

Today we went on two playdates. One was supposed to be yesterday but the weather was bad so it was rescheduled for today and so we had two playdates in the same day.

When we bought Chance's Halloween costume we thought it might be a little warm for him but with the cold weather rolling in behind all the rain we had a cuple days ago it is perfect weather for his skeleton costume. He wore his costume today to the playdates. First we went to a Pumpkin Patch at a local Church. There were a lot of people there that we knew and Chance had fun playing in the pumpkins. The people who ran the Pumpkin Patch were very nice and read our group a story. We got a little pumpkin for Chance and a big pumpkin to carve this weekend while Scott is home. Chance climbed all through the pumpkins and we took lots of pictures that you can find on Flickr by following the link to all our pictures on the right. Chance even helped pick out the pumpkin we ultimately brought home as you can see in the third and forth pictures he said that was the perfect one and we had to get it. We had just enough time between playdates to grab some lunch and head over to the park. This park is about 15 minutes form the house and is a big beautiful park called Audubon park by the Zoo of the same name and Loyola University. It is nice because it has lots of open green space as well as ponds and bridges and a junggle jim and a gold course. We just took our strollers over to a green spot, laid out our blankets and talked and let the kids play. The oldest of the group today was 18 months and the youngest 11 weeks. That is a very good age range because no one is so old that they are way over the heads of everyone else and the youngest was awake and seemed to be enjoying all the otehr ones being silly. Chance is crawling very well now and pulling up so he can hold his own well among the walkers. He even pulled up on a stroller (not our stroller) and ate some crackers that did not belong to him. The crime was caught on camera along with his friends Zachary (in blue) and Kaleb (in orange) who are both 14 months old. They were born on the same exact day. Kaleb's mom Liliann is the organizer of our group. While at the park today Chance got a couple ant bites. It is strange how I can tell the difference between his cries but I could tell something was wrong and ran over to find ants on him. I brushed them off and he got away with a couple bites on his hand and one on his leg. I put some neosporin on them and he is going to be fine. He doesn't like anything on his head no hats and no hoods, as soon as I put his little hood up to get a picture he started trying to take it off. I had to help him in the end because he was trying to pull it down over his face but I did get this one cute picture in the proccess. I know this post is full of pictures but I have one more I have to get in, Between the pumpkin patch and the park we had a long day and on the way home Chance just passed out, so here is one of him asleep in his car seat after his long day.