Pumpkin Patch and Halloween

A few weeks ago, Mia, Crew and I went to the Flower Mound pumpkin patch with our friends, the Alcalas. In addition to pumpkins, they have a hay ride (which we didn't actually get to ride), blow up jumping houses and slides (pictured below - Mia LOVES playing on these), cute photo opportunities, etc. Mia was SO excited for the pumpkin patch. I had shown her a picture online of what we were getting into and she was really excited to sit on a pumpkin. I'm not sure where that idea came from, but she had to sit ON a pumpkin.

This grimace is an intended smile. Her sweet, natural smile is replaced by this every time a camera is pulled out. :)

Mia returning after running through the pumpkins. It was like something from a movie, pictured in slow motion. She had such a good time.

Mia came back to this tractor over and over again. She loved getting to drive it.
This is Mia with her friend Sydney. Sydney stars in all of Mia's prayers and Mia talks about Sydney all day long.

This bouncy house was empty except for our group so I let Crew join the fun. He didn't move from this position (I think he was a little unsure) but he was happy to be there.

Mia loves Winnie the Pooh....which is why I chose her Halloween costume below.

October 30th was our ward's Trunk or Treat. After we'd gone around to all of the cars, my favorite moment was watching Mia settle herself into a camping chair in front of our trunk, push off her Pooh head to the side, put her sack of candy on her lap and start digging in. She opened the packages all by herself and ate candy as fast as she could. She must have known the moment wouldn't last forever. (I have now stolen her candy and it is being used as a potty-training reward. She is now very motivated. We haven't had an accident in days.)

Mia is (obviously) Winnie the Pooh, Crew is a monkey and I'm an angel. Shawn was a devil (while wearing his "Satan is Stupid" shirt). I tried so hard to paint Crew's nose but we only succeeded in smearing it everywhere repeatedly so I gave up on that idea.