Birthdays and Glasses

Mirren's 3rd birthday is coming up in just a couple of weeks.
I can't believe how old she is! 
She is still our sweet hearted girl who loves to play with her big sisters and little brother and the cats.
I love her smile.
It lights up her face.

Yesterday, something happened that aged her. Let me show you with pictures what I mean.

Yup. My little 2 year old almost 3 year old got glasses. And now she looks like she should be in kindergarten. But at least she can see. And my little Mommy heart is just a little broken that my little Mirren looks so much older, and that she will be different now than other 3 year olds. And I think this is a totally normal thing to mourn. But really, she can see! As you can tell, I'm trying to focus on that. I'm happy for her that she can see better. Her glasses are a lot stronger than Aftyn's, and she keeps exclaiming over the things she can see. A lot of them are surprising, things I just took for granted that of course she could see, but I think I was wrong. She has been spending a lot more time just looking around at things since she got them. It's kind of comical.

Sunrise, Sunset

                  

I love sunrises in October.

Here's a picture of a harvest moon I caught a few weeks ago. 

This picture doesn't show any of the orangeness the moon had. 

It was beautiful.

Linder Farms

We went to Linder Farms last Monday for Family Home Evening.

It was SOO much fun!!!!

Reed met us there after work so we could go when it was still light.

We started out in the corn maze.

 We did the medium rated maze. It was still hard. We found two Linder Farms workers to walk us out after about 25 minutes in there. The kids were beginning to complain because they wanted to go and do some of the other fun things there and it seemed like we were never going to find our way out.

First we hurried over to the ponies so Aftyn and Bronwyn could have a ride. Mirren kept insisting she wanted to ride, but she is emotionally all over the place. We weren't sure it was safe to put her on a pony in her current emotional state. Ha ha!!

They loved it!

Next up: the swings!

All the girls got to ride this time.

It was SOO very cold by this time. Everyone's hands were cold, Lochlan was insisting that I take him out of the stroller which we had forced him to stay in through most of our activities. In fact, here is our patient little boy:

So after the swings, we went to get some hot cocoa and some corn puffs. It helped a little, but mostly, we huddled around the huge bonfire that was going until our kids could feel their fingers again.

Then we ended our night in the corn bin, where corn is like sand and the kids can go swim and jump and hide in it and then come home with corn kernels in their undies and shoes. Ha ha ha!!!

We had some tired but happy kids. We love the tradition this has become for us!!