Warrenton Halloween Parade
Beautiful weather for carving pumpkins
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Lunch at Subway after Halloween story time
Girls at Trunk or Treat... AP at soccer
Practicing Fern... before the carriage arrived...
The moment she'd been waiting for, for months!
Abby chose to be Fern from Charlotte's Web and I think she was adorable, although many people didn't quite get it! She really wanted to be Fern so that she could push Wilbur, the baby piglet in a carriage. It HAD to be a carriage just like the one Fern pushed in the movie. So after searching every antique store in VA this summer, I found one on EBay that a man was selling in a town next to my dad's in NY! My dad and Carol drove it down the day of the Trunk or Treat (which worked perfectly for us, b/c they had a wedding reception to attend in Annapolis and were headed down to visit this weekend already!)
Abby wore a vintage apron and a ribbon in her hair and was so proud pushing her carriage! When I bid on it, I was under the impression it was a doll carriage, but it turned out to be the genuine thing... straight from England and in wonderful condition. Everyone stopped to admire it... although many people thought she was Nanny McPhee! I guess the giant spider sitting on top w/ the web that said "some pig" doesn't mean anything if you haven't read the book... but in any event, she loved being Fern and didn't seem too put out, when people kept saying "you're who?"
(She did through us for a loop Sat. am when she woke up and decided I should be Fern and she'd be Wilbur!... I had about 45 minutes to get everyone dressed, fed and figure out a pig costume for her before we headed to Warrenton for the Halloween parade and story time!)
