Playing in the leaves

Sunday was such Indian Summer weather! It was gorgeous outside... so much so that Liesl was running around in her diaper and bare feet... which was a good thing for her clothes because as soon as she saw me raking leaves, she jumped right into them and started rolling around in them and throwing them in the air and burrowing into them. I dont think that any of us taught her to do that. I guess it is just one of those things that kids just know how to do. I hope there are a few more days of Indian Summer for us this fall. We will be able to enjoy the sandbox, swings and leaves more. What a fun day.

Trick or Treating at Huckleberry Railroad

This Saturday we had a great time trick or treating at the Huckleberry Railroad. Liesl dressed up in her Tinkerbell costume, which she is in love with (and wore the whole weekend to Costco and Joann Fabrics on Sunday too). They have booths all set up in the park, a themed train ride and cider and doughnuts at the end of the trick or treating.... we did it more at the beginning. Liesl didnt care really about the candy, more about that she was gathering things and carrying around her bag (or purse). She enjoyed the pirate house there, the dragons and the disney princess stops the best. I also cannot forget the demonically maniacal carousel they have there that Liesl and I went on. It was about 3 times as fast as a normal carousel and it wasnt just for halloween. I hung on for dear life and they made me ride the horse with Liesl because it was "too fast". I was glad for that. She chanted "wheeee, wheeee, wheee" the whole time. We were lucky that she took a little nap before we got there for an hour.... wish it was a little longer though but we had a train to catch! Hopefully we can get back from Caseville soon enough on Saturday to find another place to trick or treat this weekend too.

Momma's Birthday

Well I had a rather nice birthday. On the weekend, my Kaethe Tante and Kathy, Aunt Barb, Steve and Frantz Onkel, and Mom came to have breakfast Saturday morning. Liesl had a good time with her Kaethe Tante as always and played a lot in the yard in her sandbox, her swings and showed Aunt Barb her rock garden which she is very proud of. Monday morning when I dropped her off for the day at her Oma's house as she was drifting back to sleep she mumbled "I Love You Momma" and slept in for her Oma which was nice. I was able to score her some free tickets to Disney Princesses on Ice for this evening which she is very excited about seeing. I hope that she will listen to Oma Ronnie and I from this morning when we told her that she will need to sleep like sleeping beauty this afternoon so she is fresh to see the princesses tonight. As I was leaving this morning she proceeded to say "...and see sleeping beauty, and Ariel, and Tinkerbell, and snow white, and cinderella.....". She was heading out to the Rainforest Cafe with the Omas and Opa and Ota this afternoon and for playing in the kid-scape at Great Lakes. She was so excited to go she kept telling everyone "Im going Rainforest Cafe too". She has been telling me "Happy Birthday" all week and last night daddy got us some food and cupcakes to celebrate from what daddy calls "whole paychecks" or whole foods....mmmmmm...mmmmm the cupcakes were heavenly. Liesl of course got to blow out my candle which I dont think I could keep her from. Looking forward to tonight's skating performance. I am sure she will love it.

The Fairies are changing the leaves momma

Liesl has been obsessing about Tinkerbell since we went to Disney in August. She now has seen the 2 Tinkerbell movies and has been watching the leaves change on the trees and points out to me that the Fairies have changed the leaves colors. Very cute. I am so glad she likes fairies and dragons and such. We also have a dragon book that she likes me to read her. It is a big picture book by one of my favorite SciFi authors. She loves to pick out the dragons in the pages.

Looking for my Barbies in Oma's attic, I didnt find the Barbies but I did manage to find a bunch of books from when I was little up there and I have been reading them to her. I found some Ranger Rick books, a Ronald Dahl, some kid joke books and some others. I started reading her Little Witches in the October spirit last night and she liked it a lot. We also got some potty training gear last night...Some princess panties, training pants and a potty ring. She is liking the potty ring very much and has been really good about going on the potty during the day.

Looks like yesterday and today are zoo days for Liesl. She had a really good time yesterday because it was nice and cool, the animals were out and or feeding time. She got to see a lot of action with the animals. Her favorite from yesterday were the Meerkats. She keeps saying "Meerkats digging hole". Oma Ronnie should be happy because the Meerkats are also her favorites. She was up at the crack of dawn today with her momma getting ready, even got dressed and breakfast before we got to Oma Ronnie's so she is ready to have some fun today!

I am hoping to get together another fall project this weekend. She keeps on saying "making project Grady" remembering her project from last weekend. Hopefully something we can hang up for fall. Maybe I will get some wreath material and start from there.