Best bday present

This year I got the best birthday present ever. My little niece decided to be born on my birthday. Mira Sophia Ait Hamd was born on November 3rd at 11:18am. She was 6 pounds 5 ounces and 19 inches long. Both her and I were suppose to be born on Halloween, but both of us decided to be born on November 3rd instead. I am so lucky to share a birthday with this little girl. She is so cute and so prefect. Congratulations again to Kim and Adil and their precious little daughter.

Babs and Mira who is the eighth grandchild

When max met Mira for the first time he was so excited. He kept touching her toes and head and kept saying "baby, baby." He was being really cute with her.

Halloween

This year was our first Halloween in Seattle and it was so much fun. The only problem was that Max and Chloe were getting over being sick. Well Chloe was still a little sick, but it didn't stop us from celebrating. This year Max was a fireman because he loves fire trucks so much. He had so much fun wearing his outfit. Chloe was a pig because Barbie gave it to me to borrow. Her costume was a little big, but once we put a lot of layers underneath it was perfect.

In the early afternoon we headed to a shopping center to do some trick or treating. Kim joined us which was a lot of fun and made it easier to have some help. The kids had so much fun going from store to store trick or treating. Max was a little sad when we were all done. He wanted to keep going and going. Chloe loved picking a piece of candy and putting it into her basket. When her basket was full and heavy, I tried to hold it for her but she would not let me. Instead she held onto it nice and tight and dragged the basket on the ground. She had so much fun.

After trick or treating at the stores, we went to granddad's and Mimi's house to hang out the rest of the night and to go trick or treating. Skye and Max had so much fun together going from house to house.

My dad's neighborhood goes full out. I have never seen anything like it. Every house was decorated from top to bottom. It was crazy. Some of the houses we had to skip because it was too scary for the kids.

My dad getting ready to scare kids

Pumpkin Patch

Last Saturday, we decided to go to a pumpkin patch. This was not a little pumpkin patch like we went last year in Arizona. This farm was huge and it had so much to do and there were tons of people. The best part about the pumpkin patch was all the animals. The kids love seeing and touching all the farm animals. They also had lots of fun seeing all the pumpkins and of course going on a hay ride.

The animals were Chloe's very part. She was not scared of them at all.

Apple Picking

On Saturday the kids and I went apple picking with Heidi, Eirik and Skye. I have never been apple picking before and it was so much fun. The apples that we picked were huge and delicious. The boys had so much fun picking apples, running and rolling around in the grass. I think the part that they liked the most was seeing all the farm animals like the goats, pigs, chickens, and cows. It was a fun day and now I have to make some apple pie, applesauce, apple pancakes and maybe some more apple desserts with all the apples we picked.

The boys trying to feed the cows.

Chloe is trying to give the goat some kisses.

Fun Things

Here are some pictures of some things that we have done these last couple of weeks. We have been trying to do more things outside before the weather gets bad again.

We went hiking with some of the gang and it was a perfect hike for the kids.

Max and Skye had so much fun running a head of us and leading the way.

We went to the zoo one day with Skye and Eirik and of course the kids had so much fun.

The had so much fun running back and forth with the jaguar.

Having a movie night.

Having fun playing in the backyard.

Another zoo day.