Autumn

October was a full and fun month. We went to WI at the beginning of the month and came home with lots of great pumpkins and squash. We also discovered the great (and free) activity of Wheaton College sports. Chris and Luke enjoyed watching Wheaton Thunder football (Luke's in his hat and ready to go to the game.) And as usual, Luke loved to help in the kitchen - especially when we made Halloween cupcakes and sugar cookies. We still haven't made the caramel apples that I bought caramels for. I guess we'll enjoy those in November!









One of Luke's favorite activities was painting with the washable paints I bought him as a reward for better sleeping at night. He LOVES to create art; some of his stuff is actually pretty interesting! I'll have to take some pics of the best of Luke Bruno.







He also has become quite attached to Cow. Yep, that's his name - Cow. Luke still isn't too creative with naming his animals yet. Luke treats Cow like a real, er, Cow, I guess. He always wants Chris to make Cow talk and play with him. It's pretty funny.

The night before Halloween, we carved Mr. Pumpkin. Chris did most of the work this year, though sadly he didn't make it into a picture. I was mostly taking video of the carving process. Luke helped a bit to get the "yucky stuff" out of Mr. Pumpkin. But he couldn't wait until we "put fire" inside of our jack-o-lantern. It was another unseasonably warm night, so we had fun sitting on our porch with Mr. Pumpkin for a little while before bed.

And on the morning of October 31, Mr. Incredible made his debut at the Carol Stream Halloween Story Time. Of course he got lots of compliments and some, "Hey, there's Superman." That night, we had fun trick-or-treating in Wheaton. Though he wouldn't say "trick-or-treat" too often, he did say "can I have two?" quite a few times. What a goober.'