Farming

This past weekend we went to my parent's place to do our annual pumpkin planting. First off Papa brought out his latest toy, which he used (and put the first scratches on) for the very first time! Xander was first up for a ride with Papa on it...

Melissa & Lexi went for a ride together...

Melissa got to drive the excavator... which was a little bouncy for Lexi's liking!

Xander got a chance to maneuver around on it solo...

Papa even coached him to dig a hole!

Later we moved on to planting the garden. The kids didn't linger around the garden plot too long once they eyed up the long grass to play in beside it. This pic is Papa making all the pumpkin mounds while the kids played...

I went to round up the kiddos to come and do some planting...

The all got busy planting a variety of pumpkins which we will check in on their growth progress each time we come for a visit...

Looking forward to October when we get to harvest them... the exciting part for me is that we will have our little son by then! We will have to see if he or the pumpkins is bigger! Any predictions? Baby Thomas should be 2 months old by then.