Here is Julia in her scary mask that she made in her Pre-Picasso art class. She loves going to her classs and Miss Laura is so good at coming up with creative things for them to do!
Julia and I (pardon the pajama pants!) carving our pumpkin.
eeeeeeewwwwwwwww! Pumpkin hands!
The finished product....our winking pumpkin! Julia was very proud of him and we ate dinner by jack o lantern candlelight several nights!
Another family tradition is to roast the pumpkin seeds. We found the best recipe yet this year and they were delicious. A little butter, garlic salt and worshestire.....
Halloween art projects hanging from her chandelier. I know.....so tacky!
The farmer's market still had a few tomatoes last week. Julia eats tomatoes like an apple. I am so proud of her and don't want her to know that most people would never do that!
Running and playing while having her tomato snack
Litle Sol got to the spend the night with us last week. We loved having him and he and Julia were so sweet and had fun playing. I am posting this bathtub shot because it might be the last one. John gave me a hard time and said that they were really getting to be too old for this.
I disagreed.
I took Julia and Sol to the library for fall family night where they could dress up and paint pumpkins. Here's sweet Maggie and Julia being little artists.
Here is my Spiderman artist!
There were two Spidermen at the library and I could not tear Sol away from his long lost twin!
Here's Julia with the frog, Miss Callie, who works at the library. She had to show Julia her face under the mask before Julia would let her pick her up. She still wasn't so sure about it!
We have this concrete Indian outside and Julia spent a lot of time last week "decorating her ice sculpture." I have no idea why she called it that???
Enjoying her first ever taco
Hanging out at the Eldridge Court park. She wanted to play hide and seek with me while we were there.
She is such a little sweetheart and is growing up WAY too fast!
Lovin eating the sugar cookie batter off of the mixer!
Julia and I started off our Halloween festivities by making homemade sugar cookies. I don't think we would have won any awards for our finished products, but the process was a lot fun!
We celebrated our friend Maggie Neller's second birthday at Village Creek State Park. The weather was perfect and the kids loved playing at the playground. Here are the two little bees that showed up at the party. The little bee to the left is Yazuki and she is in Julia's wee school class! 
Happy Birthday sweet girl! Of course, Julia is always going to sit close to the cake!
Then, we did a little trick or treating. I think I said, "Last one!" on the candy about ten times in one day.
Then we headed out to Matt and Julie's house for some fall fun. Julia cooked delicious soup and we hung out in the backyard by the fire. They have an awesome backyard with a treehouse, trampoline and picnic table. Julia LOVED playing there and hasn't stopped talking about it! We ended our night at Milena's house where Julia was so tired that she sat in my lap with her blanket by the fire. The bigger kids went on a country, SCARY hayride and when it was over, a couple of the kids came running and hysterically crying to their moms! I think the Daddy's dressed up in costumes in jumped out of the woods at random places. I'm kind of glad Julia was too tired to go because I am a big ole chicken myself and am sure that neither of us would have slept very good in our country house afterwards!
One TIRED little bee after all of the pre-Halloween festivities! I think she would have slept on the kitchen floor if I would have let her.
Halloween night, John, Julia and I headed to the Memphis zoo for Zoo Boo. We all loved it and hope to make it an annual event.
Julia and I riding the train at the zoo.
Julia's favorite station was the singing pumpkins. She sat here and stared at them for as long as we would let her. They lit up and sang songs. She was very impressed.
Riding rides!
It surprises me that Julia is not really scared of dressed up animals. She went right up to this guy and gave him a high five and a big hug!
We left with 10 pounds of candy and lots of good memories! Happy Halloween!
Julia and I had a great girls weekend that started out in Little Rock where we met up with my co-worker and friend, Amanda and her 7 year old daughter Emily. We met up at the Museum of Discovery and Julia loved it.
Julia and Emily at the entrance of the bug exhibit. As always, Julia keeps a safe distance from anything that even resembles something that could move. Her question to me the entire exhibit was, "It's not real, is it mommy?"
Then, we went to the nature center in downtown Little Rock. Julia liked the fish and the gift shop best.
Then, we headed down to the Peabody hotel for the traditional 5pm duck walk. The girl in the pink t-shirt is a 14 year old breast cancer survivor! 
Then, we checked into the fabulous Capitol hotel! I can't stop raving about it and I won't stay anywhere else in Little Rock (unless I have to!) ever again. This is a picture of our evening 
Our view from the hotel window
Heading out for the Susan G 
At the race. Julia was a little cranky at the end of our walk. She kept saying she wanted to go back to our hotel room. I really couldn't blame her.....
Emily and Julia dressed in pink ready for the race!
Firefighters in pink dancing to some very loud Snoop Dog!
And I am saving the best for last! Our pink weekend ended with Julia and I driving to 
A better view of Mary Erwin's face. I love her already!
Julia's head is turned the other way because she wanted no part of this donkey licking the feed out of her hand. I am afraid that she takes after her mommy and is a little squeamish.
This couple led the music in the chapel. Don't know why, but it brought a tear to my eye to hear them sing. Their voices sounded so beautiful together!