SPECIAL HALLOWEEN & FALL PICTURES

I am interrupting the regularly scheduled Croatia pictures for some recent special events. The Croatia pictures will resume soon. We had a Halloween party for Bella and her friends on the Sunday before Halloween. There were quite a few children running around our apartment having lots of fun. Bella was the Wicked Witch of the East from the Wizard of Oz, her favorite movie. Auntie Sarah and Nana made her a wonderful, authentic costume which she absolutely loves. Aunt Zeina and Uncle Ken sent her the wand, which goes quite well with the costume. Bella even had enough costumes to provide for others not so fortunate to have such talented and caring people to send her packages stuffed full of fun things.

This is what our living room looked like with the party decorations.

Here are all the partygoers making crafts in the bedroom.

On October 31st we took a walk in park because it was such a nice day. It was truly beautiful there, with perfect fall weather and so we took a lot of pictures. I really love this picture of my two favorite people.

These pictures were so good I had to put two on!!

Bella sits on a beautiful tree in the park.

Bella poses on an old East German statue from the socialist era.

Here Bella poses in what she has dubbed "The Poo-Poo Tree". She proudly displays Uncle Sam's old hat.

We stopped in a café that has a play area and Bella got busy on the chalkboard. Here she demonstrates her work.