Thursday Addie and I went with a friend and her two kids to Calderwood apple farm to get some freshly picked apples to take back to Indiana for family. Produce tastes so much better when it comes straight from the farm!
Friday morning we all had to get up really early so that we could head to Indiana. Addie didn't have school and Michael had agreed to be a guest speaker for a Friday lecture series at Purdue for Industrial Design students. Michael's presentation went very well and he enjoyed visiting with the staff in his old department. Addie was excited about farming with her papa and uncle Ben. I think that she called her papa 3 times on our record breaking 2 hour drive! As you can tell by the photos she was dressed to work in the field. On Saturday when we went to pick her up from the field she was riding in the tractor with my sister Anne. Addie saw us pulling up and started begging Anne not to stop the tractor. "Just keep going" she said. When we finally got her out of the tractor (only with a promise of one last ride in the combine the next day) she was in tears. She was also begging for another 6 more days on the farm. She was just not ready to leave.
Sunday we did have drag her away from the farm. It was a long drive home with lots of tears, pouts, and ignoring mom time. The only thing that helped was that she got a toy "Ben" and "papa" with a combine and tractor for a Halloween present. She talked to them and played with them the rest of Sunday. 
Addie received a rocking chair/cradle for her birthday while we where home over the weekend from grandma and grandpa Suiter. She loves being able to rock her baby while she rocks herself. We tried to get a good picture of her in it but if she's setting, she rocking. It's a little blurry but it's the best one we could get.
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