Adding to the family tree

That's right, we are adding a leaf to the bejos family tree.

Baby bejos is scheduled to arrive this spring, April to be specific.
We discovered this delightful news the first week of school...it did help explain the extreme exhaustion that was overcoming me. In hindsight I think it was a combination of the two: pregnancy and new job, or maybe it is just my new label of Advanced Maternal Age. 

It is still hush-hush at school. While we come up with a plan for my maternity leave we have decided not to rile up the parents and students just yet. It helps that I don't quite show yet, one of the perks of carrying a few extra pounds.

the playground

On a recent fall weekend day we grabbed a cup of coffee, doughnuts (doughnuts!) and headed to the playground.This little guy has a very large reserve of energy.

not the best picture, but you have asked

We weren't planning on doing the trick-or-treat thing this year, but then we were invited by friends to cruise around their neighborhood. Bejos boy quickly got the hang of the evening even if he didn't care too much about the candy - until the next day that is.

After each house he'd walk away with his shallow bucket tipping out all the candy he'd received but wearing a huge grin.

This is the best picture we got from the night. The hat was made by me, the tail by sister bejos.

Happy Halloween

No carving party this year but we did squeeze in some carving time.

the tame side of deer

Mr. Bejos scored a few free passes to our local Deer Farm, a strange but rather entertaining "farm" of a wide array of non native animals now living in Northern Arizona. 
Camels, reindeer, wombats, marmoset, pigs, goats, peacocks, and (of course) deer.

When you enter the gates, armed with a cupful of deer feed, you are immediately swarmed by herds of deer who are well trained to know that the tourists who enter with cups = food. You are suddenly transformed to the pied piper of deer. To be perfectly honest I didn't love the too close contact with these deer. No Disney moments of Snow White with the forest animals for this mama. Bejos boy enjoyed himself well enough, even though we were charged by one angry reindeer.

the epitome of fall

Harvest

Bejos boy dirtied himself up digging up our meager potato crop and picking our green, green tomatoes. They just never turn red here in our neck of the woods.