Backtracking

Since I’ve been neglecting to post lately (no particular reason!), I need to do some backtracking to post pictures that I intended to put on the blog long ago and never did. This may take a few posts…

Tonight’s entry takes us back about a month and half to the week before Halloween! That was when I decided that we should take Emrick to pick out pumpkins at the grocery store, then take him home and get him dressed up in a cute fall outfit, take his picture with the pumpkins, and then post those pictures on the blog. My execution for this plan was great, as I managed to complete all of those steps except for the last one. When I didn’t get them posted right away, I decided I would post them at Thanksgiving, but we were out of town, so when that didn’t happen, I decided that as long as I got them up before the end of November, I could still get away with an Autumn-themed post.

But now here it is, December 9th. It’s been snowing all weekend, and by Emrick’s request, the movie Elf has been on repeat for about a week, with no end in sight. And now my mom has sent me a desperate email, so I figured I’d better get on it already!

Emrick tries out a pumpkin outside of Smith’s.

“Heavy?”

Home, and ready for pictures! And taken with a leaf…

Obviously, Emrick was more interested in *handling* the pumpkins than he was in being photographed sitting sweetly next to them!

But he is still. so. sweeeeeet.

As you can see, Emrick saw fit to rearrange the pumpkins.

After some pumpkin pictures, we decided to show Emrick the leaves on our maple tree. Even by this time, the tree was past its prime in terms of gorgeous fall colors, but it was still pretty to look at, and Emrick likes leaves, so we held him up to get a good look.

Is that blue sky unreal, or what?

So if I am getting this post in just under the wire (it’s not technically winter yet), then let me say Happy Last Ten Days of Autumn, everyone! There are more “backtrack” posts to come!