I plan to put up a post of Joel's birthday party soon, but for now I'll post a video of a really great moment from Thanksgiving weekend. We realized that for these two weeks between Joel and Gideon's birthdays, the cousins are all one year different in age. Now we are all pulling for Dave and Melanie's baby to arrive before Dec 8th so we can continue the trend!

Joel, our favorite little comedian.

Joel is developing quite the sense of humor, and his favorite thing is making jokes. He will say them over and over (and over) again, in the car, at the dinner table, anywhere, and Gideon usually encourages him by laughing hysterically EVERY TIME.

Thought I'd share a couple of the latest:

"1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11...apple!"

He's also taking to calling everyone Uncle, especially Kelsey. "Hi, Uncle Daddy!" This started innocently enough, because he has so many uncles he began to assume everyone was an uncle, and it made sense to him...Uncle Mike, Uncle Paul, Uncle Kevin, Uncle Daddy..... right? Now he realizes we think this is funny, so he's taken it a little further. I'll even get an "Uncle Mommy" now an again, maybe even an "Uncle Annie". Then he usually follows it up with "ha! That's funny!" Gideon, however, does not appreciate being called Uncle Gideon. Maybe someday....

Trip to the Farm- Fall

In October, we returned to Homestead Farm, this time with Grammy and Grandpa. We had a beautiful day for our visit, and came home with lots of apples and pumpkins. The picture above shows you what became of one of our pumpkins. :) I've been busy turning the rest into puree for yummy pumpkin treats all winter.

The boys really had fun picking apples. Then we got to enjoy apple crisp later that evening at home!

Joel was really mostly interested in the tractors, which were taking some school field trips around the farm on hay rides. Sadly, the hay rides were not open to the general public.