The Wilson Universe

Last year was the year of “Finn’s first (fill in the blank)” but I think this year is way more fun because he has a lot more awareness of what’s going on around him.

To begin October, we made our annual trip to Priebe’s Pumpkin Patch. Corey and I started going a few years ago after we moved to Crawfordsville and had fun so we’ve been looking forward to being able to take Finn. We went last year but he was less than impressed.

This year, he was much more involved in the pumpkin picking process.  There was a lot of “oohs and aahs” when he saw the pumpkin selection.

He was also ecstatic to find the big green carts for hauling the pumpkins. I wasn’t sure we would be able to get him away from the wagon long enough to pick his pumpkin

Alas, he did finally get to the business of picking out pumpkins. We picked out a Daddy pumpkin, Mommy pumpkin and little Finley pumpkin.
Up next was a trip to Grampa’s pumpkin patch.

Grampa had some really big pumpkins! We contemplated hollowing one out and putting Finn in it for Halloween.

Finn decided to help us pick Grampa’s pumpkins.

Then he took charge of organizing the pumpkins that we loaded into the wagon

Up next, pumpkin carving time! He wasn’t sure what we were doing at first…

But he eventually got the hang of it!

I think he put just as much guts back into the pumpkin as he took out, though.

Finally, it was time to hit the streets and go Trick or Treating

“You mean we can knock on people’s doors and they give me candy?!! That’s AWESOME!” It took him a little time to warm up, but he eventually got into it

Then we came home and Finn decided to control the handing out of candy to other trick or treaters

While having a little cuddle time with Daddy

Or attacking Daddy, as needed

Pretty much the cutest monkey on the planet.

Overall, we all had an awesome Halloween. Like I said, I think this year of holidays will be even more fun than last year!