Another month has come and gone. Summer is starting to feel further and further away. It has suddenly gotten pretty consistently cold. I have already seen Christmas commercials on TV. We have officially entered the "busy season".
The annual Marshall Fall Frolic was held uptown last weekend. It's been going on for 88 years! I thought that was pretty impressive. It consists of a trunk-or-treat, a parade around the court house and a costume contest where all of the children are given a silver dollar from the mayor just for participating. How cute is that?!
Here she is receiving her goodie bag and silver dollar. Do you recognize my sweet little girl?
We've been very festive. A lot of fall happenings continue to go on around here: hot apple cider, The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Halloween children's books, many a reciting of "Little Orphant Annie", pumpkin muffins, the Halloween channel on Pandora, lots of candy consumption. Colleen and I (and Evangeline) made some spooky cookies....
Little Evangeline did an amazing job with her cookies. First of all, I gave her some dough to play with and she managed to use the rolling pin and cut out 3 or 4 cookies all on her own (it was sticky dough too). She was very diligent about icing them. She spent so much time getting them just perfect. She had fun making monster cookies, heavy on the candy eyeballs.
Here are some we did together....
Here is one she did all on her own....
We went out for dinner last weekend for my old man's birthday. Afterwards we stopped by Papa and Karin's. She was scared out of her wits. Her little body was quivering in my arms. She headed straight for the kitchen where she was able to kind of calm down. We didn't stay long. As we were leaving she kept chanting, "I'm trying to be brave, I'm trying to be brave". When we got out on the porch she said she was OK, but anytime I stopped to look at anything she started screaming, "GO! GO! GO!". She was a jabber-jaw the whole way home. I think she was talking off the nervous energy.
Carving a pumpkin was a blast with my little ghoul this year. She is at the perfect age. She is so curious. She loves to learn and be involved in everything. She designed the face for our Jack-O-Lantern.
She wasn't real big on scooping the "goop" out of the pumpkin, but did have fun playing with it in the table.
Mommy: "The goop is really called pulp."
Evangeline: "Pulp. That's a funny word for goop."
Miss Linda spoils her "Little Lions" rotten at the holidays. She came home with a huge bag of goodies and toys. They had their preschool party on Halloween day and Evangeline was excited to tell me that she got to get wrapped up like a mummy.
She decorated this pumpkin at school. I thought it was precious when I found that she had placed it right by the door.
Speaking of precious...here is my little skeleton princess getting ready to go Trick-or-Treating. She saw this mask when we were shopping at the party supply store for her birthday. She had her mind on it ever since. She had the whole outfit picked out. I was kind of hoping she would forget about it, because I wanted to make her something cute, but she didn't. We went back and purchased it last month. She was overjoyed when she finally got to get it out to wear.
The little, um, princess had a great time trick-or-treating this year. She held it together pretty well and only got spooked at a few houses.
Here is one of our little deer. I think this is one that I've watched grow up, along with her siblings. I would guess it was her mommy that ate all of my hostas in the spring. They are such beautiful creatures.
On a sad note, my best friend's mother is battling a very aggressive cancer. A surgery to remove a mass on her brainstem was conducted last week, but was unsuccessful. They have been on the forefront of my thoughts and prayers. I know that prayers for Amy and her family would be very much appreciated by anyone who reads this.
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