A Day at the Farm

I love Autumn... It's my favorite time of year. It's our wedding anniversary (we celebrated 8 years on October 6!), it's football tailgates, it's days like yesterday - out on the farm, drinking cider, going on hay rides, picking out pumpkins. I love the oranges and browns that Fall brings to the trees. It's beautiful.

Quinn had a couple of firsts yesterday. She went on her first hay ride and she ran me ragged in her first hay maze. It was the perfect day. Larriland Farm is definitely a place we'd return to for future fall activities!

What She Does After We Turn Out the Lights and Close the Door...

We still use the monitor for Quinn during naps and overnights. I know she's pushing 3, but her bedroom door sticks and I sleep with a fan on, so it's just easier to have it on so she can call us if she needs to. So every night after we tuck her in, shut off the light and close the door, we can hear Little Miss Chatter Box talking away in the dark - having conversations with her babies, reciting poems she's memorized, and talking to no one in particular. Then we sometimes hear her drawers open and close - great, what is she getting into? Well, we have later found her asleep with a pair of tights pulled up over her pajama bottoms. SO FUNNY. But Thursday night was the "kicker" so to speak. She had gotten into her shoe bin and this is what we witnessed!

Fast asleep with a pair of Mary Janes on!

...a matching pair, on the right feet to boot!

Quinn-isms

Of course I'll never remember all of Quinn's "special" words to describe normal everyday things, but tonight's bedtime story cracked me up so I thought I'd blog it before I forgot. I've forgotten so many of her little Quinn-isms over the past 2 1/2 years, but I couldn't let this one get away!

Kirch and I were both in her room doing the usual routine for bedtime - 1 book with both of us, then one book with either myself or Kirch, whomever's night it may be. It was Kirch's night, so while I was still in there, we were reading her Colors pop-up book. It has different animals drawn in beautiful colors with all sorts of pop-ups and flaps for the little one's eye. We got to the picture/pop-up of the peacock and I asked her what that animal was and she immediately said, "Heecopper!" What a crack up!

One of Mommy's favorite faces - the "mad" face! Painting done at daycare...

We also listen to a lot of adult music in the car - I figure she gets enough kid nursery rhymes at daycare... and one of her favorite songs is, "Pe-ah Pe-upon Us" (better known as "Peace Be Upon Us") by Sheryl Crow. She sings it too! And of course I can't do it justice on the blog, so I guess at some point I'll have to video it and put it up for everyone's viewing pleasure :)

Seriously, who doesn't love bare legs and cowboy boots???

Just last week Poppy and Manka sent her new dress up outfits and one was of her favorite princess, Ariel. Well, she wears that outfit with her little earrings and stands in front of her castle and she just thinks she is "so pwetty, Mommy!"

I look just like Awiel, Mommy!