Here we are at the Halloween Carnival. JD wore his dog costume and had a super time. That scarey look in his eyes is bad photography. He hasn't really turned into a zombee.
Here he is at his FAVORITE booth - the tatoo booth. 
He got a kiss from his buddy Lucy. Poor Lucy was confused and couldn't figure out why JD was dressed up in a Lucy outfit.
This is how JD entertained himself this morning while I made breakfast. He accompanied himself singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. 
JD LOVES to read. In the evenings he will bring book after book for me to read. As long as I'll read, he'll keep bring me books. This day he couldn't find anyone to read to him so he decided to read to himself. This particular story is about a woman who runs into the makings of a scarecrow. She finds shoes that go "clomp clomp" and a pair of pants that go "wiggle wiggle" and a shirt that goes "shake shake" . . . He can't really say all the words but I caught him turning the pages and saying "wiggle wiggle" and then wiggling. 
JD is our little pick up man. Most weekends when we are going somewhere as a family he points to the truck and says "truck truck" and then "yeah" if we actually get to go somewhere in the truck. He doesn't ask for the truck on weekdays. I guess he knows we don't drive the truck to school.
AND, he was very popular with the cheerleaders.
We have been transitioning JD to his big bed. Every night I ask him, "Do you want to sleep in your big bed or your little bed?" Last night he said big bed. SO, here he is sound asleep in his big bed with all the "equipment" he requires to go to sleep. 
Here are a couple of the fisherman with JD.
And while this very offical looking meeting went on. . . . 
Since Rachel has moved a LONG LONG way from us JD needs a new best friend/play date. We think that "Cousin Noah" may just have to fill that job. Here is JD with is Friday Night play date. JD cheered for Noah at the ball park. The chants of "Nooo ahhh, Nooo ahhh" continued into Saturday.
So, while we had dinner out, Noah and JD went to check out the pumpkins.
JD inspected them CLOSELY.
He decided this one was VERY big and VERY spooky.
And, as an added bonus, JD got a haircut. 
When we went to ride Thomas on Saturday we got JD this little pop up train to play in. It is now his favorite toy. Last night he insisted that I get in it too and "ride Thomas." So, here we are reading our bedtime story while "riding Thomas." This morning we had to eat our cheerios while "riding Thomas." This train could sure use a first class car!
We tried to exploit our child and get a little child labor out of him this morning. We are harvesting our pecan crop and thought the extra hands would come in handy.
Things didn't quite go as planned. JD enjoyed playing with sticks and crunching up leaves but never did quite get the idea of picking up nuts.
We did get a pretty good collection even without the assistance of child labor. We got enough for a pecan pie anyway.
Thomas wasn't enough fun for us on Saturday so we also went to our local elementary school carnival. We went primarily to see Joe McDermott. He was FABULOUS, as usual. I was very surprised that JD would actually sit on his lap for this picture. He had a super time bouncing to his favorite song - "get yourself a baby kangaroo. They bounce and bounce and bounce . . . . . . " You get the idea. It may not be a top 40 hit, but then they don't ask 2 year olds when they put together those top 40 lists.
JD also got a lesson in taggin from his buddy Noah.
This was his favorite game -- The bean bag toss. He learned that if you walk right up to your target you can get it in every time.
He applied that same principle to the football toss. Learning from previous experiences -- WOW!
We went to the convention center this morning for a day out with Thomas. There were lots of Thomas themed activities like this Thomas made of Legos. We played with toy trains and got a Thomas tatoo. They had about six tatoos to pick from but the sign said one tatoo per visitor please. When we asked JD which tatoo he wanted he said "all of them." WOW -- the boy is a tatoo addict. I hope it is only a phase and he grows out of it before he's 18. We also got to see Miss Stacy and sing a little Tom Tom T-Rex and Big Bubble B-Bop!!!
Here we are waiting for our ride.
Once we were on the train JD was way to excited to sit still and get his picture taken.
We went to the homecoming festivities this afternoon. Here are JD and Aunt Pat anxiously awaiting the start of the parade. Here are some of the fine floats that we saw in the parade. JD especially liked the candy they threw at us. He came home with a whole bucket full of treats.
Our family enjoyed Saturday at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo. We saw lots of live animals but this is the only one JD was allowed to ride.
