Today was my Christmas dance recital. The girls in my class and I worked very hard. Since I have been tapping for a few years and the other girls were new tappers, my teacher had me do a little bit more difficult steps in the second half of our dance. I did miss a few steps, but I figured out what I was supposed to be doing and got right back into it. And even though I had a few problems with my balance, I didn't fall down and I stayed with the beat (almost) the whole time. I had a lot of fun and I can't wait until my next recital.

I had to go to Urgent Care today. My throat and my ears were hurting, so Mommy and Daddy wanted to get them checked out, especially my ears because the last time I had an ear infection Mommy didn't know for over a week and the doctor made her feel bad for not knowing. My throat was red and my ears have fluid in them, so the doctor went ahead and gave me a prescription for antibiotics. He said I should be feeling better soon. He also thought my cast looked really neat.

Tonight I got to go to Playhouse Disney Live! I wasn't sure I was going to be able to go, and Mommy said she probably shouldn't have taken me because I stayed home from school today with a bad cold and a low fever. I guess I had too much fun at the Pumpkin festival last night. Anyway, I slept for most of the day and I felt a lot better, so Mommy said we could still go. I'm so glad we did. Our seats were really good. We were on the floor, in the 8th row, in the middle. I could see everything! All my favorite Playhouse Disney characters were there.
Mickey Mouse

The Little Einsteins, and even Rocket

Darby, Tigger and Pooh

and Handy Manny, the Tools and even Mr. Lopart

Everyone was invited to Mickey's music party and they were all looking for different kinds of music to bring. Darby, Tigger and Pooh made music from the sounds of nature. The Little Einsteins brought music from around the world. Mickey and his pals practice the Hot Dog Dance with all of us in the audience.

We all sang and danced and had a good time.

At the end of the show, down came all kinds of streamers and they landed all over us. I saved a whole bunch and brought them home with me!

I had an great time tonight. Thanks Mommy and Daddy!

Tonight after choir, Mommy and Daddy took me downtown to the Pumpkin Festival. There were a LOT of people there. I wore my queen costume, but even though I had a few layers on underneath, I was still cold and had to wear my coat.

We went trick-or-treating from store to store. Some of the stores' employees dressed up, too.

We ran into one of my friends. Her name is Allison, too, but she's younger than me so I'm Big Alison and she's Little Allison. Little Allison was dressed up as Barbie Mariposa

There were so many people that it took forever to make it down one side of Main Street. When we got to the end, we caught the end of a belly dance performance. That was neat.

We stuck with it and kept working our way back down the other side of Main Street.

I ran into my friends Brendon and Andrew. They were dressed up as ghosts

After that, I ran into my friend Lance.

I can't believe how many friends we saw tonight. It was getting pretty late by the time we got back to where we started from and we were all getting cold, so we didn't even try to do any of the other activities like the slowest bike race or pumpkin rolling. I had a great time tonight, but I'm glad I'm home and ready for bed!

We were back at Grandma's Pumpkin Patch again this afternoon. Here I am with my friend, Logan.

I still didn't get to play on the inflatables, but I did get a chance to go on the barrel train. That was fun.

We went over and watched some of our friends chuck apples out into the cow pasture. That was fun.

My friend, Andrew, slipped and fell just as he was launching one of his apples.

After everyone was done chucking apples we headed over and went through the maze again. I led everyone through without very many mistakes again. After that, some of the families started heading for home. Before we left, though, I finally got to go for a pony ride. I love pony rides!

It sure was a lot of fun to get to come to the pumpkin patch twice, but I am pooped!!

I went to Grandma's Pumpkin Patch tonight. It was another UMYF event that Mommy and Daddy had to help out with, so I got to tag along again. There is all kind of stuff to do here. There are lots of animals to see. This peacock was really cool.

We watched the cows eating pumpkins. It was kind of neat. They eat the whole thing, but not just in big bites. They eat the seeds and the gooey stuff first and then they eat the outside. There was one big cow who would bump and push away any other cow that tried to come near its pumpkin. It was fun to watch.

Besides looking at the animals, they have a bunch of inflatables that you can jump around in. I can't do that this year because of my cast. Bummer. :( There is a barrel train to ride, but I'm waiting to do that until tomorrow, when we come back with Mommy and Daddy's other church group. Same thing with the pony ride. They also have a corn maze that you can go through. I went in it with Mommy and she let me figure out which way to go. She was really surprised that I got us out without getting too lost. There were only a couple of times that we ended up going in a circle.

I was starting to get dark by the time we got out of the maze, so we went over and got a donut and some cider and sat by the fire. Then we went and watched the animals some more. It wasn't long before it got to dark to do that. So I took my flashlight and ran around holding it by my butt and told everyone I was a firefly. :)

Can't wait to come back tomorrow!

I had Mother Goose again today. We started out with rhymes about two little dickie birds.

After that we moved on to this week's play. I had two parts this week. First I was the sweeper. Here I am letting the pig out of Fox's bag.

At the end of the play, I was the Dog. First I hid in Fox's bag. And when she opened the bag to see what was inside, I jumped out and chased her around.

I love being in this class!

Look at what we did to my cast today!

Someone, who has had more experience dealing with cast than we have, suggested that get some plastic jewels and decorate my cast. So we did. I picked out the jewels and showed Mommy where I wanted them and she used a hot glue gun and stuck them on for me. It was a lot of fun.

I was right. I got the hang of this cast thing. By the time Mommy came to pick me up after school today I had even figured out how to run!