pumpkin patch

I met my friends at Tanaka Farms recently. They have a pumpkin patch set up for the season. Its actually a working farm and you can go and pick out your own pumpkin along with picking other vegetables. We all enjoyed walking around the farm and going through the corn maze. We even went into the small petting zoo and took a wagon ride around the property. It was a fun day and Bodhi had lots of fun climbing over the big pile of pumpkins and running around the farm.

We ran into some interesting things in the corn maze...

Bodhi actually got to visit two pumpkin patches this year as my sister Christina was nice enough to take Bodhi along on trip with his cousins. He got a cute little spider painted on his face and came home with a pumpkin which of course we carved into our jack o' lantern on halloween.

Songs in the key of Bodhi...

A few months ago I was remarking how Dahlia, who is 4 months older than Bodhi, was already singing and Bodhi didn't really sing at all. So now, of course, a few months later, Bodhi is singing pretty much non-stop. Here are a few of his favorites:



Ring Around the Rosie


The Alphabet Song
And finally, a song he actually sings in French. I'll put the lyrics with it so you can see how close he gets.



Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques
Dormez-vous?, dormez-vous?
Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines
Din dan don, din dan don.
So there's our little vocalist... so cute!

Sandcastles

Until this summer, I had forgotten how fun it is to build sandcastles. So, when Jen told me that there was a sandcastle competition down in Newport Beach, I thought it sounded like a whole lot of fun! So we headed down to take a look.

It took a while to get there so the castles were already well under way. We checked out the other entries, then Jen, Bodhi and I built our own competition entry!

Of course it's a train, what did you expect?

Okay, we didn't really build that one, but we did build some castles of our own down by the water. After that, we ate some snacks and played around in the sand some more. We didn't actually see who won, but we had a great time seeing the castles and spending the whole day together.