R often goes by her alias Super R especially when she wants to help someone or something. And every night before she falls asleep she has me make up a story of something Super R did that day. A couple of nights ago I told her a story about how she helped squirrels find a place to put all of their nuts that they were collecting for winter. (We have a big family of squirrels and a bunch of chipmunks that live in the trees in our yard and they bury their nuts under our deck.) The next day she put on her super cape (which is really an art smock turned backwards) and wanted to go outside with her shovel to make the story come true.
This is when R spotted the squirrel on the fence.
This is the squirrel, she called him "Chipmock".
She was yelling at me to help her dig and..."hurry!"
She dug Chipmock a nice hole and then made me leave him some horse chestnuts on the fence
in case he had trouble finding more food.
In baby news, I went to see the Dr. today and they are going to induce me on November 1st, unless the baby comes before that day. He may because I have had a lot of contractions and have been pretty dilated (although, you never can tell by just those things) It is a relief to have an induction date because we don't have family around to help and are relying on friends and neighbors to take care of R so this will make it easier on our helpers too.
It's officially a tradition to go to Boo at the Zoo now I guess (this is our second year). I love the zoo about as much as R does. It was a cool, cloudy day and it wasn't as packed as last year probably due to the weather and the fact that BYU and the U of U both had big football games. It gave us all the more space for me to waddle my pregnant self around and less lines for R to stand in to get candy. She has been practicing saying trick or treat for a week but it still sounded like trick a tree. The highlights for me were the baby elephant, giraffe and tigers, which were all so cute. The elephant especially, his skin looked too big for his little body. R loved the carousel and hugged and kissed the zebra she rode on goodbye with tear-filled eyes as I pulled her away. I had to promise her that she would see him again someday to get her off of it. She also walked around proudly announcing to every person and animal that she was Cinderella. "I'm Cinderella penguin, I'm Cinderella elephant." It was pretty funny.
