Elmo's Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone!  We had a special visit from Papa and Nani about a week-and-a-half ago and Tessa visited the White House gardens and, more importantly, carved pumpkins!  

Ta da!  Three artistic pumpkins.  They didn't quite make it to Halloween between the humidity, the squirrels, and the hurricane, but they were fun while they lasted.  

Tessa picked out her own costume this year and it was no contest:  Elmo was the clear winner.  After practicing and prepping all afternoon, Tessa was ready to knock on doors and say "Trick or Treat."  

It turns out that she didn't have to do much knocking, since Lee Street was overflowing with trick-or-treaters and candy for the taking.  

First time seeing a lollipop:  

Pumpkin picking

We went pumpkin picking this weekend, much to Tessa's delight. The farm that we went to had SO MANY pumpkins that some of us were quite overwhelmed. Luckily, Tessa has the concentration of someone ten times her age and was able to immediately find her favorite. 

 

After the pumpking picking, we toured the farm and got to see all the great farm animals. And the goat even let us pet her!

 

 

 

Finally, we had some time to sit in a pile of hay and reflect on the great day.

 

 

A trip to Mount Vernon

We only live 8 miles from the great GW's estate and mansion so we took a trip down today. We were very impressed with the mansion and the gigantic bowling green out in front of it. We got some cute pictures of Daddy and his girls.

And of Tessa by herself with the mansion in the background.

Tessa is such a big girl now that she likes to run ahead and check out what's around the corner. There she goes...