Preschool Thanksgiving

Mia's preschool had organized a very nice Thanksgiving feast.

Most of the children were dressed like the Jamestown settlers and they had a healthy lunch.

Unfortunately Mia was more interested in the desert part

After the meal it was time for some bingo

Frying Pan Farm Park

Sunday was an unusually warm and sunny day. So we decided to spend some time outdoors and check out a former dairy farm in Fairfax county that was turned into a public park so that children and adults can see some farm animals and learn about a farm. In short the perfect place for Mia.

 The rooster was really loud

 The piglets were only four weeks old and when not drinking milk from their mother they liked to all lie together under a heating lamp. In the same barn there was also a one week old calf.

Mia really enjoyed feeding the baby goats

To make things even better there was also an old carousel and a country store that sold ice cream

We probably come back in the near future

Baking cookies

Sylvia and Luca invited Mia to come up to their place when Sylvia was baking some cookies. Sylvia showed them every step and Luca and Mia could help

Doing the dishes

Mia sometimes enjoys helping with the household chores like doing the dishes:

On the video one can hear that car talk was running in the background

Sunday Afternoon with the Cousins

This Sunday afternoon we went to the Air and Space museum by Dulles international airport to meet Yilei and her family. Mia was excited to see baby Ella again and was pretty disappointed when her cousins didn't come back home with us for dinner because it was kind of late for Ella

Halloween Parade

Because of hurricane Sandy the Halloween parade at Mia's school was moved to Friday. It started with a parade outside. Mia's class walked together with the third graders

 After this all the children had story time, cupcakes and other goodies inside.

Mia liked everything

Halloween

This year Mia went to "Trick and Treating" for the first time. She dressed up as a pirate and joined Luca and Chloe for a tour of the neighborhood

After three days of wind and rain from hurricane Sandy and it a beautiful cool fall evening and Mia's purple bucket filled up quickly.
Some house had quite the scary decoration.

But Mia didn't get scared.

Now we are wondering what to do with all the candy