Anna's thumb surgery

I put Anna in swim lessons this past summer. Randomly through her lessons I would give her thumbs up, she would do it back. As the lessons went on, I noticed that her thumbs didn't straighten all the way. I thought it was adorable and put no more effort into the matter.A couple months later, the responsible parent noticed her thumbs. I replied with, "I know, it is so cute." Josh looked at me funny and said, "I don't think they should look like that." So two months later we were off to surgery. Anna had trigger thumb, it is common and a quick surgery.
You may think she is scared, not the case. She refused to talk to anyone, including me or say anything because we made her take off her Ariel pajamas.
The next day she was as happy as could be. It might have been because she got to watch movies all day. She called her bandages her wrappers, and she wanted them off for the first two days.
Josh cut them off a week later. This was great for me, because I had to keep them dry and clean. Anna's second favorite thing to do is play with water.
The stitches are healing and she is doing great, she never had any pain, and never really complained about them at all.

Halloween and Pumpkin Patch

Anna was Ariel for halloween, I had gotten my money worth out of this costume before halloween.Piper was our cute little Candy Corn!
Anna loved trick or treating, she ran from house to house, oddly though she never asked to eat her candy. Piper got her candy and immediantly put it in her mouth.
The pumpkin patch we went to had a ton of things for the kids to do. They are in a train, there was bounce houses, swings, slides, little bike races, hay rides. We had a lot of fun.
We did not force her to pull the wagon, she insisted!

Piper tried so hard to pick up every pumpkin, it was really funny.

Anna finally found her perfect pumpkin. I asked her if she wanted to carve it, or get stickers and make a funny face. She told me "No mom, I want to draw with chalk." That worked for me, no mess and no money spent.