All the way from DelaWhere?

Shortly after my Dad and Sharon left, Evan got a visit from his Aunt Charis and cousin Josh, who live in Delaware. Uncle Jony was still here too, so it was nice to get all three Horne siblings together - that hasn't happened for a long time. Josh is 3, and was pretty taken with Evan. He was very cute about watching out for him and holding his paci for him and teaching him how to play. Evan was fascinated by his bigger-than-me-but-not-as-big-as-my-Daddy cousin. We had lots of fun together and took advantage of the (somewhat) cooler weather to do outdoorsy fall things. The holidays will definitely be much more enjoyable now that Evan is around. It's so exciting to see him experience all the new sights and sounds that the world opens up to him.

Evan had lots more firsts this month, too, with his cousin around to show him the ropes. Since it was getting close to Halloween, we went to a local farm for a hayride and a visit to a pumpkin patch:

Although as you can see, Evan was less than enthralled with the pumpkin patch. =)

Evan reeeeeallly enjoys his new exersaucer from Aunt Charis, especially after Josh showed him how to make the toys work, and he loved making faces with Uncle Jony too:

Josh loves trains and carousels, so trains and carousels we found! While I was at work, Dave and the family went to Scottsdale to the McCormick-Stillman Railroad park -- a very cool place, so I hear. It's a big hit with the preschool crowd. They took a train ride around the park, and then hit up the carousel. That was actually Evan's second carousel ride, precocious kid...his first was was earlier that day at the mall:

I don't think Evan quite knows what he thinks about carousels! We had a great time having our family visit this month, and have Aunt Charis, Josh, and Uncle Jony to thank for lots of fun times!