She wore the outfit Grandma and Grandpa R gave her Friday (her birthday), Saturday , and Sunday. Thank goodness I do wash on Monday.
She has watched the Sleeping Beauty movie from Grandma and Grandpa K many a time and feels very brave about it. She keeps telling A, "it's not scary." (Even though it is a little).Friday night T got to choose where we went for dinner--She choose Sweet Tomatoes, even though S tried hard to tempt her with other places that brought ice cream and sang. S does not like Sweet Tomatoes, but he sucked it up. Also, we had Uncle B visit. What a fun treat. T loved playing adult sequence with him and dad and winning.
Saturday was her birthday party she could invite her friends to. I thought we had the rule of a friend birthday every other year, but apparently not. We'll have to revisit this idea later. Anyhow, T wanted a costume halloween party. We had beautiful princesses, ninjas, vampires, witches, a football player, and a cat. Very fun! (Sorry , in the chaos I did not remember to take a group picture like I planned). The kids decorated halloween bags, played games, ate, and opened presents (the opening presents was a little rushed--I ran out of time at the end). 
This was the "Over the head, Under the legs" game. Just so you know, the Stealth Ninjas beat out the Vampire Princesses and the Superstars.
There were a few more games, but the favorite was the scavenger hunt leading to...
The ninja, who was the only one who wanted to be blindfolded, finally broke it on his second turn.
Last, cake and presents. I know many of you that make beautiful, amazing birthday cakes. I am not a cake person. I feel like I'm doing well to make cupcakes (from a box). The girls helped me decorate them. We also had ice cream and cream puffs--aka eyeballs. Last was opening gifts. T has very wonderful, thoughtful friends. Also--Very exciting! A few days after her birthday T lost her first tooth.
It was a very exciting week. But hopefully it will be a little quieter for a while.
Here's one of the picture I got of the girls together
Running through the hay maze--much better than a corn maze; you can see your way out.
The girls loved the baby animals--the baby goats, however, were the cutest things ever. 
Here's my girlfriend's little guy, Mr. M--He's such a good natured kid.
Finally on the hay ride. Here's T with her friends. Right before this A got stung by a bee. There are millions of kids running around and somehow A got the bee sting. (and this isn't the first time--Crazy)
This is the only picture of Ms. M. Like I said, she never left the backpack--poor thing.
Here the girls head out on their hunt for the perfect pumpkin. 
The rule was the child had to be able to carry their own pumpkin out. A went for the biggest one she could find, but we settled for one a little smaller.--I don't think I could even carry this one.
T went for the smallest pumpkin she could find. At least she didn't need help carrying it.
Second, on Saturday we went to Birdfest up in Ridgefield, WA. There is the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge up there, and Saturday and Sunday was the big Birdfest. We've never actually been there before, but it was kind of fun. In college I had to take a nature appreciation class for my major and one of the assignments was to find and identify 50 birds. I spend many a Saturday with my girlfriend and my binoculars. However, ever since then I've paid much more attention to birds. This weekend everything was free and they even provided a little bus we could take that took us through the refuge. There was also two "tour guides" on the bus explaining about the refuge and pointing out birds and wildlife. 
These are Cackling Geese and are smaller than Canadian Geese. I guess it's too early in the season for the Canadian Geese. The girls played bird bingo and had fun crossing out the birds we found and even got a prize. S and M were a little bored(okay, really bored), but T, A and myself had a great time. 
Somehow S and I got pulled up to belly dance. I actually took a belly dancing class in college, but wasn't very good. We had fun and would recommend the restaurant to anyone.
T is afraid of the ducks and geese and screamed until she was safely standing on a park bench.
A likes to kick the ducks and geese that get too near to her. She lures them in with the bread and then kicks them. My mom was appaled. We are working on Ms. A
M wasn't afraid of the ducks and geese, but didn't quite know what to think of them, either. She did love running off after her sister or whatever caught her fancy. With so much water around, she made me nervous. 
This is T with her favorite person in the whole world, her cousin B.
Sunday we ran over to visit S's parents for the morning session of conference and lunch. The girls loved running around outside once conference was over. 
The girls helped grandpa pick tomatoes for lunch--Yummy! I think we managed to make sure no green tomatoes were picked. At home M is always bringing me green tomatoes.
Here the girls are visiting the shells--They love to bring different shells to grandpa and have him tell them about it. 
The black frosting stained anything it touched, be it the counter, table, clothes, hands, whatever. Somehow, much to T's great joy, we ended up taking it home. I have now eaten all the purple balls off the top. Soon it's heading for the garbage--maybe while T's at school. It might take her a while to miss it. 
It's a little embarrassing.
