Pumpkins were a plenty at the pumpkin patch this year. Mia was lucky enough to go on a field trip with her classmates and mommy was lucky enough to be a chaperone. Mommy enjoyed not being the teacher in charge for once, and it was nice to see how Mia and her friends play and interact together.
This Halloween was quite the fun one as we had special guests visiting- Aunt Kari, Grandma and Grandpa. They came to town for a lovely fall visit and entertained the kids, helped us with our party and even carved our pumpkins! Mia and Ben loved watching and helping with the pumpkin carving. They liked playing with the slimy seeds. As you can see below, we even got Grandpa to carve one, thanks to Mia's sweet persistence.
We squeezed in a fun trip to the zoo one morning to visit with cousin, Marcy. She lives in D.C. and she met us there for some elephant viewing and lunch. While the others were observing the elephants, Ben took it upon himself to make friends with a gorilla statue. He danced and sang to the statue and entertained himself for a great deal of time.
Fall wouldn't be complete without our annual chili party. This year we went all out with help from Grandma and Kari's stellar decorating skills, food and drink galore. Most everyone dressed up and once the kids were well fed and sugared up- we headed out for the largest Trick-or-Treat parade I've ever seen. Ben managed his evening well by yelling, "Twik oh tweet" at every house, reaching in for candy then putting it in his pumpkin bucket. He even did it when we walked back into our own house! He yelled and helped himself to more candy.
Ben was a National's baseball player and Mia was a sweet little Tinkerbell.
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