Birthday!

 

Lil' Miss had a birthday today! She's a whopping 5 years old. I can't believe it. First she starts kindergarten, and now she thinks she can just turn 5. What a girl. She got some special money for her birthday. Curtesy of Gramma. We helped her spend it last night. She's wearing her present in the pictures below. I think it was a good choice. It covers all bases. It's warm (although after tonight we decided she should still wear her skating jacket), the skirt twirls extra twirly, and it has a decent amount of sparkles on it (sooooooo important!!!). It's also got some pink on it.

 

 It's a good thing they were working on their twirls tonight.

 Looks like a little figure skater out there.

 She looks like one of the big girls out there!

 Such concentration!

This is tough stuff. She still falls down alot. I just want to wrap her in pillows before I send her out on to the ice. But she keeps getting up when she falls and she keeps trying. That's dedication for you.

 

Halloween!

 

How about some Halloween cuties? And a scary guy lurking in the background. He's our candy patrol officer. He's in charge of handing out the goods. As for the two little ones, they were in charge of acquiring their own sack load of treats. And they did a good job. Both were so excited to go trick or treating. We've been building up to this day for 2 weeks. Lil' Miss has been running trick or treat 'exercises' for Mr.Mister. He's been packing his treat bucket around, trick or treating for toy cars. Working on his phrasing and thank you's. He was ready. And nothing was going to slow him down. Not even gale force winds and somewhat chilly weather. Nor that mask. He mostly wore in on top of his head, but he was a good sport and got seriously excited when he'd recieve a treat. We didn't make it to all the houses. Some were too scary. But we did manage to trick or treat most of the houses on our route. It was so much fun.

 

 

Imagine this as we were walking up and down the street. When you watch Halloween on tv, when they show piles of dressed up kids running up and down streets on those family friendly Halloween shows, that is what it was like for us on Halloween night. So many kids, running, laughing, with parents also dressed up following behind. Most parents lugging wagons and strollers and extra candy sacks. It was awsome.



All in all, a very successful Halloween. Weather turned out great and we got to watch fireworks as an end to a fantastic night.