In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines...

 Happy Halloween from Madeline, Miss Clavell and the Spanish Ambassador! We had a blast trick or treating with Charlotte. Well, when she actually decided to walk up and get the candy herself instead of making us get it:) We had a Halloween feast of beef stew in a pumpkin, rolls, and a pumpkin cake after. Yummy!

I LOVE my new bed!

Brad and I have been working for a few weeks on a toddler bed for Charlotte. Brad has been building the bed and I've been making a quilt and sheets for it. And this weekend we finally finished! Charlotte LOVES it. She said so herself. We brought her out into the garage to see it and she said over and over "my new bed. I love my new bed. I love my new bed." It was super cute. And to top it off, she slept the whole night through in it and even slept in until almost eight. Wow.

Bob's Corn

The rain finally cleared up yesterday, so we decided to go to a pumpkin patch. We met up with one of Charlotte's friends and walked around the pumpkin patch. Charlotte and her friend loved playing with the enormous pumpkins in the pumpkin patches, but decided that they preferred the tiny pumpkins. I love Fall in Washington. 

 Seriously, she loved the pumpkins...

 That's Charlotte's friend with the mohawk on the right. She wasn't so sure about him...:)

This is the cow train. We didn't ride because we thought that Charlotte would jump out or something. Maybe in a few years. 

It's October!

I can't believe it's already October. Charlotte and I have been loving all the inside time we've had because of the rain here. We have been doing all sorts of crafts, sewing, fort-building, strawberry shortcake watching, and, of course, eating lots of snacks. That's Charlotte's favorite thing these days. "Can I have a little bit of piece of snack/chocolate/cookies/etc.?"

 We went to the U-pick vegetable farm in the Snohomish valley a couple of weeks ago. We got some huge squash and zucchini and dug some potatoes out of the ground. I think was more into it than Charlotte or Brad, but it was fun. We'll have to go back to get some pumpkins.

This is from our back to school party for Brad. We found those awesome hot air balloon plates at Ikea and Charlotte helped me make the little hot air balloons out of old lightbulbs.

Seattle Ferris Wheel

Brad and Jen went up on the Ferris Wheel downtown after we had an amazing meal of salmon. It was the freshest salmon I had ever had. We even had a table by the window and saw a salmon jump out of the water! These are a few of the pictures from the ferris wheel. We didn't take a picture of the ferris wheel, though, so you can google it or look at our other Seattle posts:)

Chihuly Glass Exhibit

We've been by the Chihuly glass exhibit downtown a number of times, but have never made our way in. When it first went up last year, you could see some of the sculptures through the hedge, but that hedge is really growing this year and blocking my view! So we decided to go in with our friends Marie and Jen. It was so worth it! The sculptures were amazing. Charlotte had just gotten up from a nap and wanted to be held the whole time, so it was great. She would have been all over that glass at any other time... Now for glass sculpture overload (and these are only a few of the pieces. It really was a lot to take in)