Ballet!
Abigail loves all things ballerina! She took a ballet class at the gym and loved it! I was a little nervous because she took a ballet class in the spring through the Community Rec. Center and by the end of it she refused to go and didn't want to participate in the recital on the last day. I think that the teacher was a little too harsh for 3 year olds and I am guessing that my sweet girl was a little scared of her. I didn't want her to have too long of a ballet break after that not-so-fun experience so we decided to try this class and she LOVED it! She even did great in the recital! I was so proud of her.
Abs with one of her besties, Zoe, making silly faces
The Pumpkin Patch!
Getting a pumpkin is a must in October. We decided to venture out to the pumpkin patch this year for ours. We hunted the pumpkin patch for the perfect round pumpkin, and we found it! We brought it home and proudly displayed it on our porch.
Abigail begged to carve it for days but we didn't dare do it too early before Halloween in fear that our perfect pumpkin would wilt before the big holiday. But sadly a small creative creature decided that we shouldn't wait any longer and carved it without us. Yep, some nasty little rodent ate 3 wholes in it that resembled a face, leaving pumpkin remnants all over our porch. We should of taken a picture. Next year we will listen to Abigail and not wait so long to carve our perfect pumpkin!
We have had so much fun with fall leaves this season! We have taken lots of walks and collected lots of different beautiful leaves. (Abigail has had her heartbroken many of times as she has gone outside to find that her special pile of leaves on the steps had blown away).
One day Jacob was over, he and Abigail helped Barton rake all the leaves. They had so much fun raking and jumping in the pile! (And yes, she is wearing a tutu. She is always begging to wear tutus everywhere we go).
Barton is usually working on Saturdays so we enjoyed it when he was home for a whole Saturday! Barton and Abigail made some yummy pancakes!
We had so much fun making some cookies with Jacob, Carly and Kim. The best part was delivering it to "our" neighbors! (I am still in heaven that our sweet friends are just up the street and that we share neighbors, so much fun!) As we took the cookies around to some neighbors the kids scored and got tons of treats themselves!
She is suddenly so obsessed with Aurora. She is all about Sleeping Beauty. I think that this is rooting from the fact that Aurora is Grandma Sloan's favorite!
We had so many Halloween Parties! Her first one was with some of her church buddies. Sadly I didn't get any pictures from it.
The next party was her preschool Halloween Party. Here is a picture from it. I got to go help out with it and loved being with Abigail at school.
On the afternoon of the 30th we went trick-or-treating at the Medical College with Jacob. She got so much candy!
On our way home from the gym party we stopped to see Daddy and his co-workers. They all dressed up as Ninja Turtles. It is always fun to visit Daddy at work!
Milwaukee does Halloween really different. Every neighborhood is assigned a different time and day for trick-or-treating. Sadly ours was the Sunday before Halloween. So we were really happy to have so many parties to make up for the lack of actual trick-or-treating. The silly thing though is that even though Abigail had 5 different Halloween parties not one was on the actual night of Halloween. So we had our own party!
Abigail and I made Mummy Hotdogs.
Our last Halloween Party was the Ward trick-or-treating party on Nov. 1st:
