Sunday, September 27, 2009

ColorFall at the Gardens

We enjoyed this lovely fall weather today after church at Frederik Meijer Gardens. I've been so excited to get over there to check out all of the beautiful mums and giant pumpkins, and I was not disappointed.


The trick to getting Hannah to sit for a picture is to find something her size to sit on. These days, she loves to be a big girl and sit all on her own.


Sitting again, this time taking a mili-second rest in the treehouse.


I thought Hannah might be afraid of the scarecrows, but she sat right up next to him and gave him a wave.


A big highlight of the day - playing among the giant pumpkins.


Hannah is one friendly girl these days, waving to everybody and anybody she sees. She waved to the people riding by on the tram. She waved to all of the sculptures, and here she is waving to the big horse.


Trying to sit on the bench, but it was just too tall. She had to do this to every bench that we came across, which made for a very long walk.


Hannah's new favorite activity at FMG is going back and forth through the small gate leading into the children's garden. She's really started getting into opening and closing doors at home, so this was righ up her alley. She must have walked back and forth, opening and closing the gate each time, about 50 times.


Daddy taught Hannah to play the xylophone.


We had to check out the beautiful mums before we left. We had to remind Hannah to look and not touch after she tried "fluffing" the flowers.


With such beautiful weather, an ice cream stop was in order. Hannah and I shared a chocolate monster waffle cone. Quite appropriate, I'd say.

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