Halloween!

Halloween (finally!) The buildup has been big this year. I spent the afternoon in Leo's classroom and had a lot of fun seeing him among his peers. His class is full of sweet kids and Leo is definitely one of the brightest and best behaved. That's most definitely my completely impartial opinion... but really, he was great in class.

Here was the whole gang for trick or treating. Not pictured is Nick who dressed up as Buzz Lightyear. Dads are so fun. Please note Ivy's change in costume. The care bear has gone missing and I'm still not sure where it is. Luckily, she was an adorable Elmo!

 Ivy hit about three houses total. Most of the night she spent in the stroller, eating candy....

 The kids were super excited at this baller house that was handing out full size candy!

One house had balloon animals and candy. We walked by it a half hour later and they were still handing out balloon stuff. How long did that take?? Wow.

Going through their loot was no fun at all...

Leo got about 25% gluten stuff and was so matter of fact sorting it out that my heart swelled. It helped that there is the dentist who will buy extra candy, so he is happy to sell some. I think I will try to convince the boys to sell most of it. They pigged out Halloween night, but since then I've been throwing in a couple for lunch and having a few after dinner. How long can that go on? It's got to go.

Archie, Ivy and I stayed out from 6-7pm and Wilson and Leo continued on with the neighbors until about 7:45 pm. They ended up hitting every house in Town's Summit and the streets at the bottom of the hill we got to last year. There was a light drizzle and it was pretty cool the whole time so I wasn't sad to come home and the boys seemed completely satisfied with their time out, too. I was happy it didn't pour on us. Oh, the haunted house on our street was really well done. They had a few friends over to help with the scares and made mulled wine. Anyway, we sure missed you on the big night.Xoxo.

Halloween is coming...

 We've had some fun in the nights leading up to Halloween. Here are the boys dancing in front of the Haunted Mansion projection i told you about. We had a lot of fun watching it.

The Y party was a fun time. I don't know why I like this picture of the boys in character, but I really do. Wilson looks so handsome!

 

The kids sure do have fun running around in their costumes. I love our little care bear...

Just another day in paradise

Besides Halloween, our days have been pretty normal around here. Archie is such a good sport when I see a nice fall tree I want him to pose under.

Isn't he so cute?

 

I found this scene in the backseat tonight after I dropped the boys off for piano. Swoon, Wilson is so sweet.

 Ivy's love for her babies has continued. I guess some things are taught along the way...

I told you about Leo's first $20 bill. He is so proud of it! I'm proud of him. He is such a hard worker on chores and being a helper. This kid is motivated!

Even though Archie is above the age limit for the music class (12-36 mo) I brought him anyway and he had a blast. Ivy was more outgoing with him there, too!

Not much too exciting in this post, but every day life is pretty good around here. Miss you, of course!

Haunted hayride

We had a blast at the haunted hayride on Bainbridge last night. It was about 40 minutes long and we saw ghosts, sea monsters and even an oddly placed Frozen collaboration. I'm sure the kids will want to tell you all about it. They loved it!

The logistics were tricky. We went to swimming lessons and changed into costumes there. Then we had dinner at Wendy's on the way and got there just in time for the ride. It was pouring! The kids were good sports and the hayride and a few activites like Dr. Franken's lab were covered. We didn't get home until about 8:40 and the kids were begging to go to bed. This was the best pic I got of our kiddos. I'll get some better ones in the next few nights of dressing up. 

Leo's school picture came home today. Doesn't he look so old?! I scheduled conferences for both the boys. They will be mid-November and I"m anxious to hear how they're doing. 

Here's a closeup of Ivy's favorite new hairstyle. What a cutie!

This sign makes me laugh. I thought it might make you smile, too. Oh, I'm considering joining a church in East Bremerton. I guess we should discuss that.

Love and miss you. Hope to hear from you soon.

Regular old Tuesday

 Today was a pretty normal day around here, but you said you like seeing the kids even if we're not doing anything extraordinary so I took some pictures for you.

The littles had fun in the tub this morning. These two look so alike - especially in their birthday suits with their hair slicked back!

Ivy's changing table is weirdly Auggie's favorite place to nap during the day. After bath, Ivy got some snuggles in. Auggie purred!

It was another beautiful day here so we walked down to the bus stop in the afternoon to get the big guys. Archie was so cute and gave his seat up to the seahorse.  Can you see Ivy's pigtails? I think it's her new look since her hairs getting pretty long and a little crazy.

This is a Japanese maple right by the park. It is such a beautiful fall color right now so I made Archie pose under it. 

The bigs had piano tonight and it was my first time in the room. Dr. Bowling said I need to work with the boys learning their notes on their left hand in C position now. Then she asked if I could read music... 

We spray painted Wilson's gun today since we need to be ready to dress up the next four nights in a row! He is thrilled with it.

Here is Cy's baby announcement. I've had it a week or so, but ran across it while cleaning and thought you'd like to see it. It's on our fridge now. We got him those fox jammies :)

Wilson's school picture came today. I ordered the cd, so it came with all the backgrounds to choose. Most of them are the weird splotchy colors that they've had since our youth. I thought this one was funny. He looks pretty cute except for whatever is happening with that bottom lip. I'm 90% happy with it. We also got his class picture and he is seated front row with a hole in his jeans. I thought if I had the waist up looking good I was alright...

Love you, babe. Tomorrow is the haunted hay ride and they kids' first dress up. They are super excited as you can imagine!

Chewy's new do

Sorry bud.

Zoo and pumpkin carving

Weather.com told me the morning would be lovely and the afternoon kinda rainy, so we got going early this morning to go to the Point Defiance Zoo. This was a cute moment when I told the kids to get their socks on and come back downstairs. They didn't come back so I went looking for them and this is what I found... Wilson was reading to Archie and Leo was playing Yoda with Ivy. So sweet.

The weather at the zoo did turn out awesome - it was super sunny. Archie stole my sunglasses and when I asked him to pose for a picture in them this is what I got.

The zoo was kinda decorated for Halloween and each animal had pumpkins in their area. Can you see the tiger's pumpkin? The kids thought it was hilarious.

The boys found some coffins and they posed...

and posed...

The highlight of our time there was the animal talk. Wilson is so funny to sit next to at these things now. The anteater came out and I was like, Wow, Wilson did you notice how long his tongue is? He answers, Yep, 16 inches. A few seconds later, the zoo keeper tells the crowd their tongues are 16 inches long... 

 

This is what our kids did every time the keeper asked if there were any questions...

 And, finally, we hit up the cool park they have there.

When we got home, it was time to carve pumpkins! Wilson and Leo were very adamant about actually carving them this year, so I found some carving kits for them to use. Boy did they love them. Yep, that's a knife that Wilson's super proud of.

We also found some cute decorations for the littles. Archie picked the mummy and all the boys picked the cat for Ivy. 

Didn't they do a great job? They worked pretty hard and spent a couple hours on them. Leo's is a scary face with a bat mouth. Wilson chose an owl in front of the moon. I was super impressed and they honestly did about 90% of them on their own. I know pumpkin carving isn't exactly your favorite holiday tradition, but you were missed!

Hope your day off was fun, too. Love you!