Have you ever seen a more infectious smile? I haven’t.

Finally we had a little bit of sun this weekend to allow for some pumpkin acquisitions. Saturday we went to the museum’s Pumpkin Patch Express train with Yoya and our out of town friends Brian and Renata, and then Sunday we went to a pumpkin patch in Cary (where we ran into 5 of Kaya’s friends from school and 1 of my friends from work!).

With Tommy out of town this weekend, Yoya, Dylan, and my friend Karlyn from work came over for dinner. While we were enjoying Dylan’s homemade chicken soup and bread, Kaya excused herself to go practice writing her name…on the carpet. Luckily with washable markers. Her A’s are getting pretty good though!

Our local mall is now a 3 year old’s dream. Instead of the usual inside play place that is typical for malls, they now have a Carousel, coin-operated rides, a bounce house, and the newest addition: little animals that you can rent and ride around the mall. Kaya loved it, although is not quite good enough at steering yet to do it completely by herself.

Classic bath time fun while Daddy is in San Diego.

Laney was not so sure about this brownie we offered her. I have a feeling she’ll come around.

We were very happy to celebrate Yoya’s birthday with her this evening. We made her chicken pot pie, pina coladas, and brownies. Kaya helped her blow out the brownie candles. Happy birthday Yoya!

This past weekend my friend Emily was kind enough to host us for a farm visit. She boards her horse at a nearby farm, and we stopped by to check it out. There were pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens, horses, dogs, swing sets, a tire swing and a trampoline. It was a 3 year old’s paradise. We even got to see Emily ride around for a few minutes (bareback no less due to some saddle-finding difficulties).

Although she hasn’t used a highchair for months at home, Kaya tends to get a bit jealous of Laney’s new ability to sit in a highchair in restaurants. So, we had an official highchair graduation celebration the other night at home.

The cake reads, “No High” and then there’s a plastic chair. Turns out it’s kind of hard to write letters on a cake without one of those icing writing tools.

Congrats to Kaya for her future of big girl chairs!