Run for Bears

Mommy and Daddy are going to run another 5K. This one is my kind of 5K. At the end, they get to have chocolate. Anyway, I am telling you this because Mommy, in the process, is also raising extra money for one of the two charities benefitting from the race - Umps Care. Umps Care will use the money to have Major League Baseball umpires go into children's hospitals and work with the sick kids to build bears. I really like Build-A-Bear and I know that those kids will too. If you want to find out more or make a donation, go to Run for Bears. Mommy also said I should write something about it helping you to owe less or receive more on my birthday. I don't know what that means though.

2nd Half of September

There I go getting behind in my blogging again. What can I say? I am a busy little girl. Let's finish up September. I have a lot of pictures in October to add later.

Grandma Lyn and Pop Pop watched me so that Mommy and Daddy could go out for their 7th wedding anniversary. Seven years is a long time! I love when Grandma Lyn and Pop Pop watch me. I get to catch up on my iPad games and whatever random TV Pop Pop is watching.

Mommy went to Austin for work. She went and kayaked under a bridge to see bats. How weird!I don't have any pictures of that though. I think they are still on the camera. While Mommy was gone, I had my school picture. Ms. Tameka did my hair so it would look pretty. I will post it online when I find what Mommy and Daddy did with the digital version.

The next weekend, we went to Durham for Hannah's birthday. We got to Durham in time to go out to dinner with Uncle Eric, Hannah, Ethan, Abbe, and Mr. Robert. Abbe is Hannah and Ethan's cousin on their mom's side. We had a great time playing around the sculpture while waiting for our dinner table to be ready.

That Saturday was the day of Hannah's party. She had a scavenger hunt around the mall followed by sweets at the Melting Pot. After all that, I was tired.

After the party, Pop Pop, Hannah, Mommy, and I went to the grocery store so that we had food for my dinner. This is Hannah's last time in a grocery cart as a pre-teen. I had fun driving her around :)

I know that I probably had time during the week to update the blog, but sometimes you just have to chill.

The first weekend in October is always the Fort Belvoir Oktoberfest. We went for dinner and entertainment on September 30. It was all great except that I couldn't get close to the oompah band like last year because they were having some private event in the front half of the tent. Next year I will be tall enough for more rides!

Mid September

Daddy wasn't as prepared for Hurricane Lee as he was for Irene. Lee actually washed away the road near us and made us lose power for about 12 hours. We didn't get any good pictures of the cars that were washed away in the trees, but here is a shot of the back yard early on in the storm.

On September 9, I went bowling for the first time. It was a lot of fun! I had special shoes and a special pink ball. We even ate dinner there. I had a hot dog.

On September 10, we went to the Burke Festival. They had moon bounces and a great play area. We also ran into Ms. Miranda, Mr. Jerry, and Drew. Ms. Miranda made me a purple poodle out of a balloon (even though she wasn't supposed to be making animals yet).

After a long nap, we went to two picnics! The church families and the church choir both had picnics at the same time. These pictures are from the choir picnic. There is always good food at the choir picnic :)

The weekend of September 17 and 18, we had cold weather. The high was in the low 70's. So, we decided it was the perfect weekend to go to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Next year, I think I need to dress up. I had a lot of fun at the festival, even though I was a bit overwhelmed at first. Once we found the slides and the playground and the free pony rides, I was good. The joust was pretty cool too!

On September 18, Mommy, Daddy, Grandma Lyn, and I went with Pop Pop to his Union picnic. Pop Pop retired on September 9, so this was his first event since then. (Pop Pop is going to spend a lot more time with me now!) The picnic was a lot of fun. I had my face painted and got a tattoo. We ate hot dogs and ice cream and popcorn. There were multiple moon bounces and it was right by the Claude Moore Colonial Farm. The animals scared me a little. It was funny how the geese followed us though.