Happy Pumpkin Day!

A couple of weeks ago, we took Olivia out into our front yard under the maple trees for a Halloween photo shoot.  Daddy was photographer!

Oh Boy! Pumpkin Time!

This photo shoot is so exciting!

Are you sure this outfit doesn't make me look fat?

Maybe if I tilt the hat I will add a bit of pazazz to the outfit!

This is probably the best photo of me in my pumpkin suit!

This photo is not too bad either.

I am getting a bit tired of all the posing. Are we done yet?

Alright, I can give you some more smiles.

Still smiling...

Don't want my hat to blow away in the breeze!

Look how tall I am! I am bigger than the Daddy Pumpkin.
Last year I was so tiny that Mommy sat me on top of the pumpkin.  

Hello to all of my friends!
Happy Halloween/Pumpkin Day!

Pumpkin Time!

Daddy Peter came home the other day with three pumpkins: A Daddy, A Mommy, and a Baby O Pumpkin! He also brought home this wonderful sensory experience for Olivia. You can tell that his Mother and Sister (and wife!) are all Montessori Trained! We have been working on the sign for Pumpkin and have been working on saying Pumpkin, over and over and over and over and over and over again. Today she saw these sitting on the end table and banged her hands together in a close approximation of the sign and said "PPPPPP". I signed the correct sign for Pumpkin and said Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Pumpkin as I went to get these off of the table and give them to her. She loved feeling, tasting, throwing and in general having a wonderful sensory experience of Pumpkins and gourds. I would occasionally signing Pumpkin and saying Pumpkin. And occasionally she would say "PPPP" and bang her hands together. The correct sign for Pumpkin is more of a flicking the middle finger on the top of the hand as if one was testing to see if a pumpkin is ripe.

Happy Halloween!

We dressed Olivia as a bunny for Halloween and went outside for a Fall Photo Session. Daddy was photographer.

Note from Olivia: Daddy and Mommy got the idea to dress me up as a bunny, because my pediatric endocrinologist had an "Anne Geddes baby in bunny costume" photo in his office. So not only do I have to take medicine everyday, but I had to get all dressed up in a bunny costume due to our trip to see the doctor at Devos. But I am a good sport! I did not mind the costume too much! I did not smile! But I did not cry or complain either. Sometimes babies just have to humor parents!

Mommy and Olivia had so much fun!

Looking at Mommy:

Olivia and her first pumpkin:

Inside getting dressed:

Are you sure this is such a great idea?

Oh dear me!

Happy Halloween!