Leaf Cleanup

We spent an afternoon raking all our the fallen leaves on the 15th. It was a good thing because 3 days later it began snowing and we have not seen the grass since then. Millie was a big fan of playing in the big piles of leaves. She has gotten over it quickly with the arrival of the snow. She seems to say daily that she wants to go outside and make a snowman. It does not help that we have been reading a few stories from the library about snow, winter, snowmen, Christmas etc.

Horseback Riding at Pegasus Farm

Every Friday morning Millie goes for therapeutic horse back riding lessons at Pegasus Farm. This past week the weather was beautiful so the class headed outside for their lesson. I was able to get some pictures. This day Millie is riding a pony named "Cocoa" because the pony she usually rides, "Stormy" was in pony boot camp. Apparently he has been having a difficult time listening and following directions. Millie really loves it. There is always someone leading her horse and an another person side walking next to Millie. There are five children in her class. Millie is the youngest.

Halloween

This was by far the best Halloween yet! Millie was really old enough to "get it" this year. She dressed up as an animal doctor. She went trick-or-treating with her friend Jade like last year. She did a terrific job saying "trick-or-treat" at every house. One house was offering chips or candy. When Millie was asked which one she wanted, an immediate "CANDY" was shouted. It was really funny. Millie held her pumpkin almost the whole time. After one large block Millie announced that she was "all done trick-or-treating" so we headed home. She talked about wanting to go again for the next 2 days. I had to tell her that next was Thanksgiving.

Pumpkin Carving

Millie was excited to help me carve the pumpkin into a Jack-O-Lantern this year. She told me to give it a square nose. We took it into the dark bathroom to light it up for Millie to see and she wanted to stay and play with it forever. After 25 minutes I finally told her we would light it up at night when it got dark. She was super excited. She turned out the lights and had a flashlight in her hand the whole time. Then we sang the "5 Little Pumpkins" song about 5 times in a row. She could not get enough! The next morning the first thing she told me to do was "light it up." This was at 5:45am.



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