Visit with Grammy Ruby and Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

At the end of Jeremy's paternity leave, Jeremy's mom, Ruby came to visit.  It was great to have another pair of hands and I actually got to take a few naps!

It was also Halloween time and on all my parent listserves, people were posting about taking their kids to the pumpkin patch.  I was still a little worried about whether a pumpkin patch would be too far a trip for him and dubious about whether he would actually appreciate it, but my fear of him missing out on a pumpkin patch for his first Halloween (and probably more to the point me missing out on pictures of this momentous occasion) won out.   The result were the following photos.  You'll see he didn't open the entire time, but he was there (and we got pictures.)  :-)

 

                              

Enough Already, Mom! 

Family Pumpkin Patch Portrait

October 9, 2011: Eyes open!

When Rhys first came home, it seemed like he was always sleeping and consequently all our pictures of him were of him sleeping.  For awhile I felt like I didn't really know what color his eyes were because I saw them so infrequently.

The day I took this picture I was so excited because I actually caught him with his eyes open.  He was on his changing table at the time - a place that he still generally enjoys.  In fact, for awhile there, it seemed like I was taking a series of changing table pictures almost every day.  It was the time that I could initially catch him with his eyes open and then the place where I could catch him at his most expressive . . .

P.S. Both my brothers wore the gown that Rhys is wearing in this picture.  Although Jeremy and my favorite gowns were the ones that snapped all the way up the front because we didn't have to upset him by putting anything over his head, this one had a wide neck and was pretty good too.