Fall 2012

Since I was so terrible with keeping up with posts, here's a look back at our Fall festivities.  We kicked it off with a trip to the pumpkin patch (an annual tradition).  Ella loved seeing all the animals and roaming the pumpkin field.  I think her favorite was the hayride where she got to wave to all the scarecrows.  

Photo op before heading in.  (My bump was 23 weeks at the time.)

Lunch time.  Remy got to come along and loved the attention.

Patiently waiting for the pig races.

Waiting for the hayride.

She loved sitting in Daddy's lap and waving to the scarecrows (a habit she developed from walking around our neighborhood and waving to the many scarecrows adorning our neighbors' yards.)

Ella got to meet the beautiful horses that pulled us along.

Checking out the chickens.  Ella makes excellent chicken noises.

Pumpkin time!

Exhausted from the day, Ella takes a rest while waiting for the car to pull up. 

In October we also celebrated Ella's first anniversary of her baptism.  We got her a special little dessert and lit her baptism candle to commemorate the special occasion.

She is definitely inherited her father's trait of not loving desserts.  She ate the fruit and some whipped cream and left the rest of the mini cheesecake.  

Halloween was particularly warm this past year, so we had to abandon our original costume idea (Amelia Earhart) for something more practical.  Since Ella loves pointing her toes and dancing around the house, we thought it appropriate for her to dress up as a ballerina.  

Our prima ballerina.

We went trick-or-treating at an event in downtown Monrovia near where we live.  She thought it strange that all the dogs were dressed up.

Going store to store for candy.

We met up with her friend from Gymboree class.  Madelyn made the cutest bumble bee and her new baby brother, Gabe, was a ferocious tiger.

Remy made sure to check out her goods when we got home.

What is this stuff... candy??

The days following Halloween, Ella would ask to look through her candy stash.  While she didn't get to have any, she did get to eat some pretzels she got from a health-conscious neighbor!