Early Fall and Halloween

October has been a busy month. First we had to do some construction for Emily and Max' bedroom.














Then Max had a fall celebration

and a field trip to a pumpkin patch. There he got a little pumpkin for himself and one for his sister so we could carve one for each.

And we got a Mama/Papa pumpkin to watch the two baby pumpkin.

We also had to do some raking in the garden.

For Halloween, we had Pooh Bear, Panda Bear, Papa Bear and Mama.

First Grade and Pre-K

It's been a really long time since we've used this blog. Many, many pictures have been taken but it's time to share them again in one place. But now updates: We traveled quite a bit this summer, first a few trips to MA, then to Germany and in late summer Erin and Max were back to MA. At the same time we are ready for summer to be over. 


The end of the summer is the beginning of the school year.  Emily is now in first grade and Max switched schools for his last year of pre-school.




To kick off fall, we spent a wonderful afternoon with Erin's cousin Allison on NoVa. The day was a dream come true

Papagei

First, Allison has this wonderful firetruck that you can take on a walk. But as if that wasn't enough, as we make our way to the playground with the fire truck, we see an animal rescue person looking up the tree. As it turns out, a parrot had been AWOL and he couldn't get it down so he called the FD. And lo and behold a half hour later a huge fire truck with a Drehleiter shows up. How much better does it get - a toy fire truck, a real truck and nobody who is in danger.