Big Beaver

Mary Rose seems to think that Big Beaver Rd can get us anywhere. On Tuesday, this was our conversation
Mommy: "Now we may need to get gas on our way home," (from school)
Mary Rose: "You need to go to Big Beaver and get some!" (The gas station I frequent is on Big Beaver)
and on Thursday
Mommy: "There's an accident, we may need to take a detour..."
Mary Rose: "On Big Beaver?"

Halloween at Greenfield Village

Saturday night we went to the Halloween event at Greenfield Village, It was a blast! By chance I was able to get extra tickets from work so Peg's parents came with us, along with Peg and her kids and my mom. I started packing at 7:30AM to make sure I had everything and it was still a bit of a mad dash out the door. Ten minutes before I had planned to leave the elastic tore off of Mary Rose's clown hat so I dug out a needle and some embroidery floss from my scrapbooking supplies and sewed it back on. I had everyone in the car by 4:45PM and we arrived at 5:30PM, even driving in the right lane trying to get Nicholas to get a catnap in. We parked at the first parking spot after the handicap spots we were so early, and I loaded the double stroller and headed for the bathrooms. By the time we got out of there, Nicholas was screaming so I put Mary Rose in the front seat of the stroller and sat on the bench feeding Nicholas the bottle I had just pumped on the drive in while Mary Rose had ham sticks and finger pasta and an apple in the stroller. My mom arrived, then Peg and her fam and we got some great sunset pictures while we waited for the mass crush of people to subside before we headed in.

Raymond was Bob the Builder, Laurel was a blue monkey (a costume Peg and Seth made for her last year) Mary Rose was a clown, and Nicholas was a cow. It was a beautiful night, warm and cloudless, and we headed in and to the first treat spot where they handed out apples. Mary Rose was not deterred, she ate about half of that one as well! Raymond chowed his apple down too! It was really nice to be there when it was light out, much less scary. There were still a few spots, like the shaking crate. Laurel said, "I'm going to run away!" and Peg said, "Go ahead" and Laurel said, "No mama, I want you to run away with me!"

donlop

It was a busy but not too busy week-end. We were driving to church and Mary Rose said,"Nicholas can't see!" so I fixed his hat and said, "Sorry buddy!" and Mary Rose said, "Sorry little buddy, it was an accident!" She is so cute with him sometimes!
Last night Nicholas sat by himself! Apparently Noel says he's been doing it for a couple weeks but this is the first time he had his tummy off his feet so he was sitting up, not sort of folded over. We've been laughing because he's got some serious "donlop" going on with his tummy and his double chins!