Cute as pumpkin pie

This past weekend Cade and I enjoyed an outdoor adventure of a new kind....of the pumpkin patch kind :) It was a new experience for the both of us. I for one had never been to a true, hay maze, corn maze, pick our own pumpkin off of the vine type of pumpkin patch before. THEY ARE SO FUN! Our FRG (family readiness group) put on this event out in Kingston for any that wanted to attend. Cade loves being outdoors, so I thought this would be a great event for him to burn off some energy....and boy did he!!

My friend Karly and her two kids joined us for the fun. There were Kiddie Hay Mazes...of which Cade wasn't to sure about. It took some coaxing for him to even enter into it ;).

Once he was inside, he would pick at the hay, pull out a piece, study it, and hand it back to me with a look of disgust...followed by "Ackie Mommy" (as in yucky mommy). LOL! That was a short lived event in the eyes of Cade and it was time to move onto something more "his style".....A TRACK OF TRYKES!! Now we're talkin'!! I learned something new about my son in that moment...he can mount and successfully push himself on a tryke...uummm, hello?!!??!!? STOP GROWING SO FAST CADERMAN!! The boy literally flung a leg right on over the seat, hopped on, and off he went! The kid is too smart!

We stayed a long time in the tryke track before it was time to venture down the path to find our pumpkin! (Did I mention how stinkin' cute Cade is?!?! Just thought I'd mention it again...hehe...the kid cracked me up the whole time). Cade waddled down the path in his courderoy overalls, gaining momentum down the hill before he stopped short and stared at amazement of the bounty of pumpkins. Suddenly an "OOOOOOOOO" came from his mouth and he TOOK OFF for the pumpkins. He pointed left, right, straight out in front of him, spun around, and pointed some more... "APPPPPPLES! APPLE MOMMA!" (Cade's name for pumpkins apparently...hehe).

It didn't take long before Cade choose his pumpkin and he carried it proudly throughout the pumpkin patch. Next was a mission to find a "momma pumpkin" and a "daddy pumpkin"...that way we'd have a family of pumpkins. Just as it should be.

Although DJ was not able to join us, he was most definintely in our hearts and thoughts that day....as he would have loved this fall weather and event. I had a bunch of quiet reflections that day watching Cade bounce around from one activity to the next, taking everything in, knowing how much DJ would have enjoyed a family day like that day. We talked alot about Daddy that day, and I knew Cade understood that Daddy was there in spirit because he'd say "Daddy" out of the blue and that let me know Cade was thinking about him too. WE MISS YOU BABY!!