The grandparents are in town this weekend. When we have guests, we enjoy dining out. To work off those meals out, a nice hike helps. We're lucky to have several hiking trails near our house. I've been wanting to try out a trail off the road by Sydney's pre-school. Today we finally got the chance. It was a foggy morning, but the sun broke through to another gorgeous fall day.
Here are a few photos from St. Edwards trail.
By now you know the challenges I face in dressing my daughters. Sydney prefers dresses with short sleeves, but sleeveless is best. Natalie refuses footie jammies and no chance of a hat of any kind.
And when it comes to doing their hair, forget about it. Well, poor Natalie is still sporting her mullet these days until her hair growing speed kicks in a notch. But Syd, I've been fighting to do pig-tails or put her hair in curlers for months and months.
No, for Syd there is one hair accessory and one hair accessory only - the pink bow. Maybe you've noticed by now, but pretty much every picture of her, she is sporting the pink bow. She wears it every day and even to bed at night. (I gave up the fight long ago.) Throughout the day, I get requests, "Mommy, can you please fix my bow." When I do it wrong, I'm instructed, "no, Mommy, I like high and on the side." I get little pleasures of putting it "low and in the middle" some days, just to mess with her. :)
When I say, "Syd, can we do a purple clippy today or maybe a headband,"...this is look I get. We've all got our own thing...I guess!
The girls and I made it to the pumpkin patch today. It was a lovely drive, beautiful sky, perfect weather, pumpkiny, hay-ridin fun kind of day! We got there early to beat the school crowds...thank goodness.
Here are several shots of what all we did at Sweetberry.
We bought a tricycle for Sydney when she was about two and a half. She really has never shown much interest in it. Cheekers on the other hand wants to take a spin each time we head outside.
Here are a few shots of our girl on three wheels. Ding, ding....
I've been hearing the Fall Fiesta song for weeks, and today we got to see the live performance. Sydney's school had the Halloween holiday program this afternoon. It was supposed to be last week, but the weather was not cooperating for the outdoor performance.
Myself, Cheekers, Daddio and over fifty other parental types, with photography and recording devices in both hands, watched the kids and all of their hard work. It was such a cute show!
Here are some of just the forty pictures I took.