Pumpkin Pleasure

Gil was out cutting up a dead tree the other day and it spontaneously combusted! Okay, so it just started on fire from a spark from the chain saw. It was weird though and smoked for over 24 hours!

Here is our 2010 pumpkin produce. A few watermelons and butternut squash are thrown in too.
Here is the lovely centerpiece I made from some of them.
A few others I threw in the decorative jar from our wedding that previously still had Christmas balls inside...I need to get with it!
Jude is starting to enjoy coloring. He really enjoys it actually. So much that he wants to eat the colors! That is the problem. He also thinks it is fun to see how many he can hold in his hand at once. He really doesn't get it...but neither does his mom because I was encouraging him to color the phone book!

A church story:

Bringing Jude to church is (dangerous, scary, brave, torture, exhausting)...an...experience (there that sounds slightly positive!). This is how a Sunday service typically goes: Jude is sitting on my lap, Jude is down on the floor, Jude in getting into the diaper bag, Jude is trying to run down the aisle, Jude is standing on the pew, Jude is yelling (that was the first 5 minutes). This continues until either Gil or I take Jude out and run around the hall with him or (if available) sometimes to the nursery. As you might have figured out Gil and I get very little listening done and very much entertaining of a one-year-old in if Jude is with us in church. This past Sunday was even more fun. We had the pleasure of sitting with our good friends and their little guy who is about 4 months older than Jude (and has an entirely different temperament!). Eli sat still and quiet and occasionally wanted a snack or a toy. Jude did his normal church behavior (which is pretty typical all-around behavior) only every time Eli had something he didn't have he yelled, "ME!" (That's his new thing--"me"). So Eli got to share his fruit snacks and goldfish and coloring book and toy truck and about everything with Jude. I don't think our friends quite knew what they were getting into with this boy! We made it through almost the entire service, however Gil did take him out when it finally got to be too much. I can only hope for the day when Jude will sit quietly during church...but I am afraid by that time he may be 25 years old!