Punkpins

You might think that I made a mistake in spelling pumpkins in the title of this blog. You are correct unless you are Owen Purdy. Last year, Owen called pumpkins "pumpqua" (still not sure where the Q comes from). This year, he calls them "punkpins". So sweet! One other sweet thing is that tonight on a walk, we passed a house with little white ghosts in the front yard. Owen has never encountered this before. He was talking about all of the punkpins that he saw and then he said "snowman, snowman, snowman, snowman!" pointing to each of the four ghosts. May he never know that they are really ghosts!

Yesterday we went to a nearby church that was selling punkpins and had a great time walking around, taking pictures and enjoying the fall (75 degree) weather.

Here is our family - this is the best shot we got of the four of us. How do you get two boys to look at the camera at the same time?!



Owen in the "punkpin hole."



B checking it out.



What a face! A little blurry but so precious.



Our two boys.



Baxter found a leaf and tried to eat it. Here Owen is helping him clean it off. Owen loves things to be clean. Each pumpkin that he picked up that had a little water on it he would say "this one is dirty" and promptly put it down.



Happy boy!



Here they are - a Baxter sized punkpin, and Owen sized punkpin and a Mommmy/Daddy sized punkpin. Sunday for dinner - punkpin pancakes! (I made sure that Owen knew that we'd be eating different punkpin in our pancakes!)

A few fun times

Here are a few fun things from the last week.

Owen finger painting - his favorite part is to mix the paint on the paper plate when he's done painting on the paper. We were using fall colors this day - red, yellow, green, organge. Notice the nice shade of brown that they made when he mixed it up. I love fall!



Because our little B is so much more mobile than Owen was at this age, we went out and got this new toy at a kids consignment store the other day. Love those stores!! BOTH Owen and Baxter love it. It's been a source of great joy and a source of learning much about selfish hearts! Oh, what a process it is to grow in Christ as a 2 year old!!



I don't remember why, but when Matt tried to take this picture of us reading, I started laughing and that made Owen look up at me and smile. Matt captured that moment.



Baxter just hanging out with some things to chew on - a bowl, a spoon and an Ant that has bells on it. What more could one want?

Matching PJ's

Just some fun matching PJ's we got for the boys.

Around the house

Just a few of our favorite things these days.

Owen loves to make a "hole" with pillows and sit in the middle of it. He'll just sit and sit and play. It's very sweet. Usually big puppy functions as the door that gets opened and closed. Sometimes Baxter tries to break in and it's fun MOST of the time!



We had some fun in our tunnel this week. Here is Owen hanging out in the tunnel.



Here is Baxter (who is now CRAWLING all over the world!!!) crawling through.



So Baxter is crawling everywhere! He is also leaning on anything he can - couches, Owen's drum, boxes, etc. He's much more adventurous than Owen was, but still cautious.

Another very special visit

We had a very special visit last week. My grandparents and Aunt had made the trip from NJ to VA to visit my parents. They all came over for a daytrip to visit with us and see the boys. We are so thankful that they were able to see our house and our boys. It is amazing that they were able to make the trip - my grandpa has had some really serious health issues recently, but is doing great and the Lord has sustained him and helped him so much! We love you Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Barbara. (Note: My dad has a sister named Barbara. My dad married my mom whose name is Barbara. My dad's brother married a Barbara (this is the one who was here). Crazy, huh?!)