October Fun

Grace with her Princess Jasmine scarecrow at the Saint Charles Scarecrow Festival.

With a Dug scarecrow.

After a trip to the zoo today we raked up the front yard a bit.





Today we went to the Brookfield Zoo for their Halloween festival




With the scarecrow she made with mom.

Marching in the costume parade.

Leading us through the corn maze.

Making a necklace.

Wakka Wakka Wakka

Grace learned how to tell a joke at some point this weekend. Good luck understanding her but I think you'll see that her punchlines are all the same.

Busy October

With Aunt Moira and soon to be Uncle Paul.

At another pumpkin farm.

Trying on a hat at the pumpkin farm.



Putting on a show.

Pumpkin Farm

Our annual pumpkin picking trip with the Mondays.

Misc.

Grace with the fire engine she made at Lowes this morning.

Working on the fire engine.

Ice cream face at Jason's Deli.

With John Scieszka and David Shannon.

Busy Days

Smelling the flowers at the Botanical Gardens where she started taking a class this morning.


A pig pumpkin.

At Little Diggers class.



Her new favorite thing is to set up a carnival in the living room complete with a long ticket line.

After the apple orchard, Grace and Mom made an apple casserole kind of thing that I'm sure has a name but I'm not going upstairs to ask.

They Might Be Giants

Grace has made me listen to this song about 10 million times today.

Playing With Picasa

Got our Disney Photopass CD in the mail this weekend so I thought I'd try playing around with a Picasa feature.

Apple Picking

The weather was nice and someone took a good nap today so we went apple picking at Heinz Orchard this afternoon. Right now, Grace and mom are upstairs making applesauce.

Ralph Covert and Laurie Keller Book Signing

While dad was home sick with some kind of stomach thing today, Grace and mom drove down to the Naperville area to hang out at the Morton Arboretum and go to Anderson's Bookstore for a Ralph Covert and Laurie Keller book signing. Ralph sang a few songs before signing books and taking pictures.

Laurie Keller, Lisa, Ralph and Grace



She's on the right in the pink shirt in front of the boy in blue.