Yesterday was a great day for some yard work. So beautiful and warm. We scooped up some of our fallen leaves and let the girls play in them for a bit. Eloise, of course, wanted to eat them all. Dalia was, of course, a super sweet big sister. She made a HUGE fairy bed for "eleven fairies." Mark, the awesome dad he is, left some of the leaves and her fairy bed in the driveway for her.
Today was the neighborhood Halloween festivities, the annual Monster March. We braved the drizzle and it was worth it. So fun! As we were parading through the hood Dalia turns to me and says, "when are we going to get to the parade?" I told her we were the parade and showed her the people watching us. She couldn't believe it. Too much candy later she ran home in the rain with some friends, systematically removing her butterfly fairy costume as she went. I was a five minute Pipi and Eloise napped in her cow costume. Mark wore a black sweatshirt. Wait, he always does that.
Then we came home to carve our pumpkins and enjoy the evening. Dalia designed her own face while Eloise rocked out on the piano. I love this video. It so captures our family right now. Check out Eloise's dance moves!
I don't remember ever going to a pumpkin patch as a kid, so I'll chalk it up to one more cool thing there is to do in Oregon as a kid. Go to a farm, listen to live music while searching for the perfect pumpkin to take a picture with, get some kettle corn or some other treat, ride a "train" made of buckets and a tractor on an otherwise perfect October day. It was even more fun to do it this year now that Dalia is bigger and Eloise is with us. Family outings are indeed getting more fun.
