Fall Fun with Grandma and Grandpa Parry

Well, Grandma and Grandpa Parry graced us with a quick visit down this past weekend. Richard was busy Saturday morning running in the Baltimore Marathon Relay with our friend, April!

Richard and April on the right.
Richard ran a 7:55 min mile!

My folks arrived around 1 p.m.-ish on Saturday. The weekend was a bit dark and dreary but we managed to find things to occupy ourselves.

Here we are at the school playground:

Grandpa helps Frances along the monkey bars

Grandma and Frances steer the "ship"

And at the nearby basketball court:

Doing a dip with the grandparents!

Racing! Frances in green and Grace in pink

On Sunday the girls helped me make an allergy-friendly apple cake for grandpa's 60th birthday (we celebrated a bit early)!!!

Gracie!

Here they are singing to grandpa (Grace left, Frances right):

Grandma made allergy friendly pancakes so MiMo devoured them with some NY maple syrup. Yum!

Grandpa helped the girls carve their first Jack-o-lantern:

Grandpa, Grace and Francie

Grace getting in the pumpkin guts,
Frances trying to clean them off.

Here's a video of them cleaning the pumpkin:

Grace helping poke out the carving pieces

Grace and Frances with the pumpkins

MiMo eats his pumpkin!

Grace showing Moses the inside of the jack-o-lantern

Grandma helped me weed through our new hand-me-downs and others we had in the attic. So now everyone has their winter clothes out and summer clothes stored away. It was a short visit and we miss them terribly! We can't wait to see them again.