Sunday, November 9, 2008

The Great Pumpkin Festival

The weekend before Halloween, we met up with our Baby class friends at the Arboretum for the Great Pumpkin Festival. Oddly, despite the name, it had nothing to do with Charlie Brown. Bummer! Oh well, it was super fun anyways!

We started off the afternoon with a picnic. No home-cooked meals for the Fabers! We picked up yummy boxed lunches from Central Market. Also, you'll probably recognize our StrollerFit friends. Yep! The babies that play together... well, play together!

Annabel wants to know what's for lunch too!

Jake says hello to Ginny. He's our stylin' little dude in the group. He's probably going for Ginny's sunglasses cuz that's how he rolls.

Sweet Kenley joins the group of roly poly babies. Actually, our group got there later than some others from our class, and we couldn't find them. I had a complete brain burp and didn't include my cell phone number when I emailed the details out to everyone, so no one had any way of getting in touch with each other! Fortunately, we ended up finding each other.

Clockwise from 12 o'clock: Andrew, Annabel, Kenley, Paige and Jake. No longer are these babies content to stay in one spot! I can only imagine what our get-togethers will be like when these kiddos are walking.

Finally! They are all in one spot! From left, Annabel, Paige, Kenley, Jake and Andrew. You have no idea what it took to get this photo. Pure hilarity, my friends! Chris got video of all of us parents trying to get the babies to look at our respective cameras... all the cooing and calling. I will try to post the video soon.

Up close and personal, allow me to introduce you to Annabel's April 2008 baby buddies...

This is Andrew, who undoubtedly has the best hair in the group. He had the greatest grin, too!

This is Jake. He's a mover and a shaker! He was the most mobile of the babies... always on the go. We could put him down on the blanket and in the blink of an eye, he would crawl halfway across the field!

This is Kenley. She's the sweetheart, always with a smile on her pretty face!

And this is Paige, who is the big girl eater in the group. She loves her some veggies! No wonder she has such bright eyes and glowing skin!

And of course, our Annabel! (Chewing on her skirt... yummy?)

Missing from the group are the twins, who we haven't met yet because they were born at only 26 weeks and had been in the hospital for quite awhile. They actually showed up on time (and they have twins! Talk about having their act together...), and had to leave early. So bummed that we missed them! Also missing was JP, whom you blog readers know well. He went to his cousin's birthday party.

Speaking of the group, here's our group photo. I had my remote for my camera with me, and the tripod, so we took about a million shots to get this one.
The baby class gang!

After the picnic portion of the day, we all headed over to the pumpkin patch area to get the requisite photos of our babies with the pumpkins. It had started to get unseasonably hot at this point, so this was much easier said than done! Still, I think we got some great photos of our little fairy... er, elf... er fairy elf? I'm not sure exactly what Annabel's costume was, but it sure was cute!

We did get one photo with Annabel in costume with another baby, Kenley. What a couple of cuties!

At first, Annabel didn't know what to make of these giant orange things everywhere...

Then she decided she might as well enjoy herself. Can't help but love that beautiful smile!

Just call her sweet cheeks!

Grammy was still in town, so she got to join in the pumpkin fun too.

Grammy, Daddy and Bellie. See the resemblance? Just a slight one...

Grammy and her FAVORITE granddaughter! OK, only granddaughter, but still...

Daddy and Annabel always have fun together!

Mommy loves her sweet Annabel too!

The Fabers at the Pumpkin Festival.

You can view these and many, many, many more photos at the special Photobucket album that I created specifically for this outing. The password, as always, is Annabel.

Slowly, but surely, I'm catching up on my posting! More to come...
Cheers!

1 comment:

Emily said...

What an adorable costume! Great photos, as always. :)