Halloween part 1

These are from trick or treating at Red Hat. I'll try to get the rest of the pictures up soon. Emily was her bunny Bun Bun and Elijah was Sonic the Hedgehog.

The Fair

Saturday we went to the State Fair. We hadn't been since before Emily was born so it was time to make our return. These pictures are in reverse order so the children look more awake the farther down the list you go.

Elijah finished his experience with a fried apple pie.

Emily wanted a vanilla ice cream that was about her size.

The last ride we rode was the Ferris wheel.  The line was really long but Emily had been asking about it since we got there.

It was worth the wait.

Both kids did pony rides.  Now they both say they want to take lessons.  Probably not going to happen.

Emily picked the wiggle worm and both of them enjoyed it despite how unsure Elijah looks in some of the pictures.

Emily also picked the carousel and Elijah picked the big slide.  Emily was sad to be too little for the slide and Elijah declared himself too big for the carousel.

We got there at lunch time so responsible adult that I am I picked fried cookie dough for my lunch.  good thing the kids helped me out with it. 

Emily's Birthday

A day at the Farm.

Playing in the corn.

Doing the big mountain slide.

Emily was brave and went by herself.  Really she was too young but just by a few weeks.

Hay ride with pumpkins.

Elijah wanted to get the biggest one he could find.

Emily wanted the cutest one.

They did the jumping pillow 4 times.

Gem mining

Hey jumping

Ducky races

Making corn angels.

Emily's Big Girl Birthday Wish List

Hope you don't mind but I figured I'd take a minute to make a Birthday wish list for Emily.  You see all of a sudden she is into big girl things and totally over little girl things.  Here are some big girl things she likes though.

Puzzles, we like 24 to 48 piece puzzles.  She has a few but she would love a few more.

Barbie things.  I know some people don't do Barbie and I know they have good reasons but she is enthralled with the ones at her school and I'm just not going to fight it.  I'll fight for her body image in other ways.  She is going to earn her first real one here in a few days so while I'm sure more dolls would be great she would really like clothes and shoes.

Anything Strawberry short cake but espically dolls that come with clothes to change.  Really anything with a change or two of clothes makes her happy.

Littlest pet shop things.

Hope that helps.  As always no one has to buy her anything but I thought some ideas might be helpful.

Boating

This past Sunday I went to a movie with a friend and Elijah went to youth group.

So Emily and Neil had some real alone time together and he promised to do whatever she wanted.  Smooth move Daddy.

She wanted to go out in a boat so badly that she cried when he tried to talk her out of it.