Fall Festival

Molly's preschool had a fall festival recently.  She had a really good time and is still talking about it.  She found our extra game tickets in the car and so we've been playing pretend fall festival.  I was pretty proud of myself because I came up with two fall festivalish games on completely short notice but of course as soon as they had been played a couple times, she wanted to know what else I had going on for her.  I guess the real fall festival just set the bar too high for me.  Maggie also had a good time.  There were lots of slides to attempt, a few tunnels to explore and lots of people to glare at suspiciously.

Getting ready to go: always a challenge.

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 Bounce house

 Boo!

 I swear she was way more enthusiastic about this than she looks here.

 

The other day Maggie was kind of sleepy before her nap and she kept laying down in the the little sunny spot in the kitchen like a little cat or something. 

Meow!

This and that

I suppose I'll just start with Halloween.  We had a good one.  It was fun that Molly was able to go up and be generally polite enough to receive candy from strangers without us constantly coaching her.  She was also appreciative that I wasn't such a total hard ass and actually let her eat some of the candy.  Make no mistake though, I ate a bunch and I even threw a bunch away. Nobody needs dots or more than 1 ring pop.

Jonny carved our pumpkins.  I think he's getting pretty good at it.

This one only makes sense when you know that Molly was a 50's "poodle princess" (it's all about how you sell it) and Maggie was a pink poodle.

 Pirate pumpkin

 Worried about the pirate pumpkin.

 The whole gang

 Poodle girls

 Crazy Jonny!

 It took a few days to knock her off her poodle princess throne.

 Random cuteness

 "I don't sleep"

 

She has mastered the slide and she's pretty excited about that.

 Of course now we have slide competition.

 The girls went to their first wedding!  Jonny's cousin got married in Mesa this past weekend and Molly in particular, had a blast.

Maggie and I didn't last through the ceremony, but beforehand, she made it clear that she had her own ideas about the seating arrangements. 

 Molly all hyped up on wedding vibe.

 She was all about the dancing!  Here she is doing the robot?!?!

 Molly's own Gangnam Style dance.  Shout out to Jonathan for providing some inspiration.  I could have posted a picture of him here, but no one reads this...so I posted on Facebook.  Sorry Jonathan.

 What we came for.  At one point we lost track of her (I think she was a little too comfortable weaving in and out of the crowd at knee height) not to worry though she was found stalking the lady who was cutting the cake.  At the first wedding I went to, I remember being equally obsessed with the cake.  So much so that I remember constructing a conspiracy theory in my 5 year old mind about how the flower girls (who were serving the cake if I remember correctly) were trying to keep the cake away from me. 

The first wedding was fantastic and a complete success!  Kudos to them for outsourcing the serving of the cake to an unbiased party.