Pumpkin Carving

The annual pumpkin carving took place in late October. I loving carving pumpkins and carve one every year. This was Mark's first year carving a pumpkin. Not sure how that happened but he has now carved one. This was a Halloween of firsts for the Macdonald family, more on that in another post. Mark decided to be super impressive and go with a design from the stencil.

I went with traditional carving but tried for spiral eyes. They didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. They broke off.

Ladybug fun

Our little ladybug flew off to another Fall Festival.

She still loves her thumb. I'll tackle that hurdle next year....

18 months

Madeline's 18 month check up went really well!

She continues to be tall and thin. She is 21lbs 10oz (10-25%) and 32 inches (50-75%). She says many words and is really becoming independent! I was only able to get one picture before she decided the photo shoot was over! It's been a wonderful 18 month journey!

Cumming Fair and Highland Games

A little hand erased an image so now we are slightly out of order. Sorry.

Our tradition continues at Stone Mountain. Here is Mark and his little donald. I love this picture.



We love the Fair so we headed off this year. We normally go to the North GA State Fair in Marietta but ventured to the Cumming Fair this year. It was fun!


Madeline and I went down a huge slide and she loved it!
"Come on, Mom. Let's go again!"
She is set with cotton candy and a balloon! (The cotton candy was for me!)

"I did it!"

We have a Sky Chair on our porch and one day I walked out there to find Madeline in the chair! I was curious as to how she got in the chair since it constantly moves. For the next several days I had my camera handy and stealthily was able to catch her in the act! Now the three of us will be fighting for the best place in the house to read!

RPC Fall Fest

Our church had their annual Fall Festival. Nana, Grandad, Grammy, Aunt Elizabeth and Lauren and Graham all came to play.

Madeline got her face painted with a heart. It wasn't long before she smeared it. Oh, well.

Scarecrow Festival

Our Fall Season began with lots of festivals and that has continued! Here is Madeline in the bounce house for the first time at the Scarecrow Festival. She loves jumping on our bed so I thought she would love this but she was a little timid. This house was specifically for little people.

Here we are at the craft table. It was a sticker project and the stickers all ended up on top of one another. It was cute!