Well, as most of you know...October is a big month for us! As big as December for sure. First because Mom is crazy over halloween which is reinforced by my birthday being on halloween. Secondly, it is my birthday and let's face it...I am spoiled. Third...Mom is crazy!
So, my fall festivities started with choosing a costume for halloween. But this was back in August so it would really be more appropriate to update an older post...so I will leave out details. In short, I wanted to be a lion. Then I was all about Frankenstein. Then I was insisting on a lion costume
for my birthday and a Frankenstein costume
for halloween. ( yes, Mom agreed to this. Like I said...spoiled!) Finally, at the last minute, I decided to give her a break and just stick with the lion for both events.
So the
true fall festivities began with our feild trip to the pumpkin patch!!! Oh how exciting! We love the pumpkin patch! We've been every year since I was born! Well, hold onto your hats folks...it was cancelled. That's right...rained out. So we went to the State Fair instead! Yay, fun, great...right? Wrong! Great for most kids maybe, but I had no intention of riding anything, looking at any animals much less petting them; I don't eat (as some of you may know) so fair food was no big draw. I wanted pumpkins in a patch! But Mom, Dad and Noah were all coming along so I figured this could be a
decent time anyway. I was not
thrilled with the animals (which was Mrs. Beth's real purpose of the trip as she had a special treat for us...that we could pet some of the animals!) and was especially terrified when a pig got loose and wigged out right in front of me!!! WHAT?!They can't keep those things on a leash?! It was going to kill me!!! Luckily, Mom faught it off, laughing hysterically all the while. Then she took me over to the pen where we could pet some pigs. REALLY? I did find the ducklings incredibly adorable, and strangely enough I enjoyed milking a cow (fake cow...but still weird). Then I rode a circus train...it was alright. But the highlight of the day was playing the games!!! They let me shoot guns! I don't mean pretend stuff, I mean real deal, cork shooting guns! And I won prizes! What did I choose? Swords, of course!
Next it was time for my birthday cupcakes at school. Now these are no ordinary cupcakes...no getting them while we do our other grocery shopping...not even ordered specially from a bakery...oh no! None of that would do! Mommy had her heart set on home made animal cupcakes to go with my zoo themed birthday. Be sure that these cakes were researched in full, tested and perfected before presenting them to a bunch of 3 year old critics. Like I said before...crazy! But they were awesome and I was very excited to share the pandas and, for my better friends, the lions (not the monkeys- they were
mine).Next on the sugar quest was Trunk-or-Treat at Papa & Mimi's church. Noah and I dressed up in our monkey and lion costumes
and
practiced our trick-or-treating skills with Mimi. We even got to practice eating candy! When we felt pretty comfortable with what to do, we were off to church. I saw many, many super-heroes, Star Wars guys and monsters! Even grown up pirate, Princess Leah and Darth Vadar...no I'm not kidding! Austin, and all of "his friends" (aka, his brothers or my
cousins) were there too! Trunk after trunk, I was amazed at the handfuls of candy people were so generously throwing into my bucket!!! So much that only a few trunks into it I told Mom that it was enough candy...let's just look at the costumes and decorations. But I pressed on and got all the candy possible. Finally I made it to the awesomest of awesome trunks...Papa and Mimi's! It was decorated like a shark mouth with scary sharp teeth and a tongue sticking out! It was truly the hit of the party, aside from all of the chocolate, of course. Then I spent the night with Mimi and Papa. (That's right...I'm a big 4 year old!)
Then came fall field day! I was so very, very excited that Mommy was going take me to school and then stay "forever!" I was mislead. Mom went to chapel with me where I got to wear my birthday hat and the whole school sang "happy
birthday" to me as I stood on the stage with Mom. Mrs. Cruce asked me how old I was going to be and I drew a blank! Finally I took the mic and said, "My name is Jacob and I
think I will be 4." Then came the laughter.
Come on! You guys try to remember your name
and age in front of a large audience...I
dare you! Anyway, the singing was really cool and the wave was very impressive! Then Mom had to go set up our game so I had to leave her side. I was not happy about this, and if you know me or have read any of my other posts you know how this went over. But I went with my class, played lots of games, ate lunch with Mom, even played Mom's game, got LOTS of candy and had a super day!
You think that is enough for one October? Oh no! There's more! Next was my birthday! My
zoo birthday!! I had insisted on it even after Mom tried and tried
to plant other party ideas in my head. It simply had to be the zoo. It was a perfect day. Beautiful weather, sunshine, balloons and birthday banners to greet me at breakfast...the works!
It was Jack's birthday party too so he and all of "his friends" were there with us! We wore our crazy animal sunglasses. I saw all the animals that I wanted to see. We rode the "haunted" train. I saw my buddies, Grant and Mason. But I have to say, the highlight of the trip for me was sitting at the picnic table with Mom and drinking a coke without a lid or a straw; nobody telling me to come along or hurry up. It's just the simple things...am I right folks? Then we came back to my house to have lunch and cake. Jack and I blew out our candles...twice!!!
Then we opened gifts! I got everything I had ever wanted and more! Magician castle, batman helicopter, dinosaurs, dinosaur movie, knight swords and armour. Then Austin and I asked Mom what games we were going to play. Every party has got to have games, right? She looked at us blankly and then proceeded to take us outside for some duck-duck goose. I was not buying it...this was not well planned. So I just played with my new toys while the rest of the guys ran around and wrestled.
As if that was not enough activity for one month, much less one day...it was halloween! We had to trick-or-treat! So after a 30 minute rest, we hit the road
to Sheridan for our traditional dinner with Nana and Papa and trick-or-treating with Bailey. I was way too excited to eat! I couldn't wait to put on my costume an shock everyone with my fierce roar! And boy did I! They were amazed! Trick-or-treating was great! Bailey took me to all the best houses. If it weren't for that pesky dog following us around. No worries though...the fierce lion scared it off with his might roar!
Good thing I chose the lion costume, huh? I got so much candy just looking at my bucket made me sick, so we went back to Nana and Papa's house where Noah and I helped Papa hand out candy. We
were very busy...I'm sure Papa was relieved to have our "help." Because there was not enough sugar consumed by this point, we ate brownies, cupcakes, candy and apple pie!!! Yikes!
Then it was finally over! (Deep breath!) Back to normal. I think we are all quite relieved. Possibly almost as relieved as you are that this post is over! And it turns out, I am still 4! Apparently I'll stay that number for quite a while...just like when I turned 3! Who knew?
Thanks for hanging in there with me through my October!
Later,
Big Boy Jakers
(or as I like to call him, Wrinkles) to keep an eye on Noah and I and make sure we behave and stay on Santa's nice list. Personally, I find it a little odd that this is the elf that Santa sent for this purpose. He doesn't really seem to be the best judge of naughty and nice behavior. He is always getting into mischief...funny mischief, of course...but mischief nonetheless. He scatters toys, unrolls the toilet paper, eats our food, climbs into the christmas tree...I'm just sayin'! But he does give us treats each morning when he deems us "nice" the day before, so he's cool with me! Noah and I actually love trying to find him each 
morning! But I think Mom is enjoying it most of all. She's always taking pictures and gets a real hoot out of us finding him in odd places. And I think he is taking a lot of pressure off of her...whenever we are fussing she says, "Remember, Krinkles can hear you!" Of course we shape up right away! Don't want to miss out on all of that Christmas loot! Here are a few pictures Mom has taken of our adventures with Krinkles.
Later, Noah
