A delicious feast was feasted upon this past Thanksgiving. In attendance along with Mercer, Mom, and Pop, were Aunt Vicki, MeMa, PaPa, Grandpa, Uncle Matt, Uncle Chris, and of course, Hanna.
Mercer went pumpkin picking last weekend with Hanna, Mom, Pop, Grandpa, MeMa, and PaPa. Emery's Berry Farm had a nice looking spread of pumpkins complete with a corn maze and hayride. Mercer didn't want any part of the corn maze, but we went on a hayride and got some treats at the country store afterward.
Once we got back home to New York, Mommy carved Mercer's pumpkin nicely.
Mercer had a little birthday party this weekend to celebrate turning 4. We originally scheduled it for Saturday, but the wind and rain knocked us back a day. No matter; Sunday turned out to be a great day and the party made Mercer really happy. He was so patient and was rewarded with some cool birthday toys.
Starting off the morning with a birthday donut.
Getting a call from Aunt Becky. She sung him "Happy Birthday."
Opening up some of Grandpa's presents. Mercer has a cool new beach bag for the summer.
Oh, we got a bounce house. Everyone loved it. Ryan here was in it all afternoon with the big kids.
Cousin Hanna
Mercer showing off his birthday pin.
All the kids getting some action. From left: Ryan, Hanna, Mercer, Sydney, Rayla.
Sydney!
Pileup
A Batman cake. The strawberry mousse inside was great.
The cake was good because it made everybody's mouth blue.
Finishing up with some gifts.
It consists of a toy drill bit, plastic swirl pop container, and some sort of small action figure helmet attached to a giant clamp; which, of course, is clamped to the top of the swirl pop container. We're running it through the U.S. Patents Office now and Pop is writing up a quick article for the Journal of the American Medical Association. Fingers crossed.