October in Review

The girls' bunkbeds and wonderful Lantern Festival bedding arrived! They LOVE these beds (and we LOVE the underbed storages drawers) Thank you Aa-Aa for such a humongously terrific gift!!!

Our State Fair is a great state fair...and it was even more fun since we went with our good friends and their China sweetie! The girls had a great time especially Mary Clare our roller-coaster baby. Margaret Rose enjoyed herself as well. She really liked fair food - cotton candy and candy apples!

This is Margaret Rose's first pony ride. From that smile I don't think it will be her last!

Fun at Country Adventures with the local adoptive families group. It was a great day and we enjoyed the hayride and the hotdog roast. We took our own veggie dogs and the owners were kind enough to cook them on the grill for us.

Sister love and fun at our neighborhood park and out in the yard! The girls love being outside and we've had great weather for it.

The picture above is of Mary Clare being a pirate kitty- we don't ask we just go with it :-)

Margaret Rose and Mary Clare started dance this month. MR's nanny asked us to please let her take dance as it was one of the things she enjoyed most at the SWI. We're still looking for a way for her to study Chinese traditional dance but why we look we're starting ballet. I only intended for MR to go to dance but Mary Clare announced that she wanted to do "tippy tap". We've no idea where she got that phrasing but we're now running MC to a half tap-half ballet class on Monday and MR to ballet on Thursday.

Margaret Rose had a day off from school so Lee and I both took a day and we had a great 3 day weekend in Boone. We hiked and played in the leaves and then Lee's parents took the girls to a fall festival at their church. The costumes were last minute (read I called my mom and told her we needed costumes about 2 hours before we left) additions. Popo rocks!

The girls had a great time choosing pumpkins and making a jack-o-lantern with Baba. The woman at the pumpkin patch wanted to take Margaret Rose's picture and use it to advertise. She said she'd just never seen a child with such joy on her face. We agree!

Margaret Rose LOVED Halloween!!! She got very good at her "Happy Halloween!" greeting. My mom made the wonderful princess dress. MR found MC's in the closet from last year shortly after coming home. She held it up and I told her Popo made it. The next thing I knew she was handing me the phone - "Popo peas! I need pwincess dwess!" The girls got to wear their costumes to school and daycare. MC decided she wanted to wear her Hopper Train Engineer outfit to daycare and her princess dress for trick-or-treat. MR was a huge hit at her school and came home with tons of candy which she immediately began to divide with her little sister. She always shares things with Mary Clare but we were amazed that she'd share the candy from her pumpkin.

So Mary Clare put on her princess dress and we were off to trick or treat with friends. The girls got so much candy that I bet they'll still be eating it at Christmas. The first picture is of them marveling at how Popo made the middle of their dresses match and the last is of them posing with Raggedy Ann Popo. Happy Halloween!