Welcome, Fall!

Monday morning, we visited the local farm stand to get things to decorate our front porch.

The boys picked out their own pumpkins for painting

Look at poor PJ's eyes- allergies much, buddy?

Jack, who enjoys pretending that everything can talk, said his pumpkin told him it felt funny getting painted. He reassured the pumpkin that it wouldn't hurt a bit.

Thomas loves watching his silly big brothers.

While PJ and Thomas took a nap, Jack and I found some of Daddy's old clothes to make into a scarecrow. We painted a papier mâchée head that had started out as a dinosaur egg project but never quite made it there.

Jack was fascinated by the scarecrow and insisted on posing next to him for a picture.

I love the Fall, and love that we can get these things for so little money - it was $11 for everything. (In fact, all the corn shocks were only $1.50. Last year, I thought that price was per stalk, so I asked for four of them and the farm stand owner said they'd deliver them and a hay bale to the house later that night in their pickup truck. They came while I was putting the boys to bed and when I came down it looked like Children of the Corn on our porch, so this year I knew just to order one.)

I am also bound and determined to make those gorgeous mums survive for at least a week before they start to turn brown!