Misc October Photos

I switched walls in her playroom where these would hang. I've planned on putting up photos of her on the wall these used to be on, but haven't yet.









Getting rid of the teal wall that was here when we moved in a year ago.




Oct 2010 - Helping Us Prime the Wall from Deb on Vimeo.

We had Autumn's Mother's Day Out Open House. 









October 18
It's "white day" in Autumn's class so I dressed her in a white shirt, white socks, yellow shorts with white polka dots, and white hair bands. When the teacher got her out of the car this morning she announced, "I HAVE WHITE PANTIES ON!" Love that girl!

October 2008

October 2009

Halloween Goings On

I decided Autumn would be a butterfly for Halloween when I saw this costume in a catalog. It was the perfect outfit for her. I figure this is the last year for me to do this as I am sure she'll have her own opinions at a few months before turning 4 years old. I also didn't let her see it until just before she tried it on to go to a Halloween to-do at a bookstore. This made the pictures that follow even better because they were her first reactions to seeing herself this way (she has never really played dress up at this point).








Oct 2010 - First Butterfly Sighting from Deb on Vimeo.


Oct 2010 - Halloween Costume from Deb on Vimeo.



Autumn and I drove up to see Gram and Grandpa the weekend of Halloween.  We drove back early on Sunday afternoon so we could carve pumpkins and Trick or Treat.







Autumn's pumpkin



My pumpkin



Richard's pumpkin



All ready to go!







She'd say, "Trick or treating!" at the door.





She was so sweet because she wanted to give the trick or treaters at our door some of her candy.



Oct 2010 - Candy! from Deb on Vimeo.



Here she holding hands with the lobster that came along trick or treating with us.  Her imaginary animals were changing around this time.  The lobster would appear, Gings and Gongs, chickens.


Oct 2010 - Halloween Lobster from Deb on Vimeo.

Pumpkin Patch

We went back to the same church pumpkin patch we've been to for the past two years.  We decided to skip the big pumpkin patch farm outing because last year's visit wasn't that fun.  She had a great time at this one though.


Oct 2010 - Dancing with Pumpkins from Deb on Vimeo.












Same Pumpkin Patch 2008

Same Pumpkin Patch 2009

Cy Fair Fire Fest

This year's Fire Fest was much different from last year's. She was sort of a grump at the beginning. Not really interested in much or wanting to leave Richard's arms. She talked a lot about riding a pony (I was hoping for the llama) so we stood in line. Once it got to her turn, there was nothing doing. I didn't really expect her to, but she was talking like she was going to. It had turned hotter than expected, so I wasn't all that happy either. We spent some time on one side of the fest and then went back to the car to cool off, regroup, and decide if we wanted to go to the second half (where all the fire trucks were) or just go home. She wasn't really happy, and I was hot, but I figured since we were there we might as well just go see the trucks.











So, we traveled down the rode a bit and went to see the fire trucks and the big flag (semi impressed). She saw the life flight helicopter (wasn't impressed), she saw the rescue boat (wasn't impressed). She got a little bag of goodies (wasn't impressed). She was a tough audience that day.









The last thing we visited was the ambulance. As you can see by these pictures she was a tad intrigued. She was quite contemplative about the ambulance and talked about where the person would lay down if they needed help.







Overall I'm glad we went, if only for the comparison to last year's photos. But it wasn't an easy outing. We went to lunch afterward and that wasn't easy either. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

Park with Anna

We spent almost 3 hours after school at the park with Anna and her mom. Autumn was very dirty and very sleepy. Should get a good night's sleep tonight!

Misc September Photos

Here she is making a bowl for Gram's birthday present:









Her first real corn on the cob experience.  She was pretty thrilled by it.





We took her to a Storytime at a local bookstore.  It was for Biscuit.  I don't know what I was expecting, but I got a pretty big kick out of the lady in a huge Biscuit costume who couldn't see where she was going at all.





This is the reaction I was hoping to get out of her in regards to Biscuit.  But no, here she is with her back to the stage, oohing and ahhing to a little boy in a stroller.





Here she is holding her car line sign with her name and her teacher's last name on it.  We did car line pickup last year after spring break (when all the kids in the class had made it to 2 years old) and she did great with that.  But this year (after the first few weeks of school) she could do both drop off and pick up in the car line.  I was a little nervous about how she'd do with the drop off part, since I had always walked her into her class.  We talked about it for the week leading up. I told her how another teacher (not her own) would get her out of our car, they'd help her walk to the courtyard, where she'd meet Miss Kitty and then go into the building and find her class.  And after explaining all that it made me think she might get overwhelmed by it all.  Of course, she did great.  No problems.  Greeted the teacher that got her out of the car and went on her way.  I had to drive away so I couldn't watch her walk in, but oh, how I wanted to!








Summer - You say "stumblelick" as a sort of "oh darn" kind of phrase. If something doesn't go right you say, "Stumblelick!"

"I won the contest!" "I'm going to win the contest!"

September 9
I just told Autumn, "Being silly is fine, but please don't lick the couch."

September 20
Gings and gongs and bings and bongs. I've finally determined that "Gings and Gongs" are Autumn's imaginary friends. They seemed to be just made up words when she wasn't sure what else to say, but it has slowly progressed into actual beings. Just now she came out of her room after two minutes of trying to take a nap and said, "Gings and Gongs woke me up." And then she pretended to hold each of their hands while walking down the stairs (when she realized she needed a free hand to hold onto the rail she decided to roll them down the stairs).

September 22
I asked Autumn what woke her up at 6:26 this morning. She said, "Cuz Gings and Gongs wanted me to come down and see you! And the little one woked me up!" Gings and Gongs were pulling her into the other room while I was trying to get her to come to me to do her hair this morning. She used her thumb and finger to show me how small the little one was (about an inch), but she didn't say which one of the two it was. Bings and Bongs used to be used as much as Gings and Gongs, but B&B have fallen to the wayside lately. Oh, and get this: She came home with an "All Ears Award" for listening during story time. I guess she left G&G home so they wouldn't distract her.

First morning dropoff in the car line was successful! She waved bye to me no problem. I wish there was a place I could park to watch her go in, but gotta keep moving!

September 30
Autumn is quite excited to go to "Barnes and Oval" for a Curious George story time!


September 2010 - God our Father, once again, we ask your blessing, Amen. from Deb on Vimeo.

September 2008

September 2009