Trunk-or-Treat

Testing... 1...2...3... We had a Halloween costume dry run this past Saturday at Rehab Dynamics (Elise's old physical therapy place). Rehab Dynamics and a parents sensory group hosted 'trunk-or-treat' in their parking lot. Thirty parents decorated their cars and passed out Halloween treats to all the little kids.






We had been working to get Elise to wear her Halloween costume at home, but to no avail. Needless to say we were pleasantly surprised that she didn't protest when we put her costume on while in the parking lot. Elise made the cutest monkey even though she didn't wear her hat (which I carried around with us so people didn't think she was a dog an another animal!). Maybe Halloween will be cooler and she'll me more willing to wear her hat.




















However, Elise was more than willing to wear a bow in her hair all morning long! Trust me, this is a first!

Fort Meigs and the Applebutter Festival

Boo! Elise and I made a spooky ghost tree for our backyard. We saved some of our pop and beer cans (cleaned of course) and painted them white with black eyes. Then we hung them with pipe cleaners one evening after dinner. I tried telling her that there wasn't any more beer in them but Elise tried to see if a sip remained. No such luck.

Nana and Poppa came to visit this past weekend. Since the weather was fabulous, we visited Fort Meigs- a battlefield from the war of 1812. Elise even wore a headband for the outing. All we wanted to do was run and play in the field but Elise insisted that we stop and read each sign and discuss the significance the war had on our lives. She's such a history buff.

After all the hard work, she treated us to lunch along with a chocolate bacon sundae from Swig (yep you heard that right- yummy!).
















On Sunday, Elise, Nana and I went to the Grand Rapids Applebutter Festival. The highlight was that from the parking lot to the festival downtown, you had to ride school buses. Elise's first trip on a bus! The picture is blurry but you can see that she's ecstatic to be riding on a bus like a big girl! The fun peaked with the bus as Elise isn't much into crafts. However we did see Aunt Amy, Grandma and their friends there and they seemed to be having a lot of fun.
















After the applebutter festival, we stopped at Grahams Farm in order to buy a mum for our front porch.The mums were gigantic and beautiful... row after row of color. Elise thought they all smelled good.

Apples and Pumpkins

Today we went to MacQueens apple orchard to pick a 1/2 bushel of yummy apples- right off the tree. Elise was more than happy to help and mustered enthusiasm in spit of a runny nose and cold breeze. She was quite content running between the trees, picking up apples and dropping them into our growing bag.



































































































After apple picking, we stopped by Greg's Country market and picked out three pumpkins- one for each of us... 2 orange and one white. We did learn one lesson- if your pumpkin is too big to carry on your own it WILL make you cry. Luckily daddy is strong and can help you out.