Jimmy * Esther * Zeke * Lilly

Grandma Z invited us to go to a pumpkin patch and choose some pumpkins. It was really neat! There were thousands of pumpkins, of many shapes and sizes.

Zeke and Grandma Z

Zeke is a great pumpkin selector, he chose this one, it looks great on our porch!

Zeke likes to tease the witch by shaking her broom. At first he was afraid of her, but now he likes to say “hi” and “bye” to her when we are outside.

Zeke has been asking us to hold him like a baby before bedtime. We LOVE it! From the time that he was only a few months old, he has been so alert and wanting to see what’s going on, and he rarely would lay still and let us hold him like a baby. He is learning new tricks for stalling and delaying bedtime, and I think this new “hold beebee” is his best yet! It melts our hearts. He lays there and smiles while we sing to him, he is so precious!

He thinks it’s the funniest thing when we smell his feet and say, “oh, stinky!”

Another one of his very effective stalling moves is to be really cute and funny on his slide. The other night, Jimmy and I watched him do tricks on his slide for 45 minutes, and it was already 2 hours after his bedtime! We just love these moments when he’s in such an entertaining mood!

After all that, Zeke made sure we each still got our turn to “hold beebee”.

Even though it makes bedtime prep twice as long, I treasure the time I get to hold our baby like a baby, because to me, he will always be that.