October was a fun month...I just wish the weather would make up its mind. Is it 85 degrees - is it 40 degrees? We have been alternating between summer weather and winter weather but experiencing no fall weather for October. But Halloween night was perfect...cloudy with a full moon and COLD....I am sure all the kiddos out there wearing the thick fluffy winter-weather costumes were grateful. We added some mittens and scarves to our trains and we thought they looked even better. Really, don't scarves and mittens make everything better? =)
Here is the crew eating some dinner before trick-or-treating:
Costumes on...
And all ready to go:
Crew with Geoff and Jason:
It was fun to go trick or treating with them. J and W followed their almost 4-year-old twin friends (Gator and Kitty) to the houses and sometimes forgot to hold out their bag...they were so intrigued by the person at the door and what they were holding and/or dogs running around. W shed his costume about 3/4 of the way through but J made it almost the whole way. After he would leave a house he would say "next house".
Our little tricksters:
They were very excited about their full load of candy. They each had a bag of skittles and some dots when they were sorting through their loot. We just pulled out all the "nut" items this morning...J is still organizing his bag right now...and saying "what is this?" "what is this one?" "bubblegum?" "another bubblegum-2 BUBBLE GUMS!" And they are really into the family units. He just pointed out "a daddy, mama, and baby lollipop." If we read a book that shows a mama animal with her baby they are asking "where is the daddy elephant?" "where is the daddy whale?"
We made lots of pumpkin bread this month with an egg-replacer that worked fabulously (thanks again Jan-we have been baking up a storm)...I will post the recipe for this new pumpkin bread because it is healthy-(er) option and even with whole wheat, wheat germ, buttermilk, and an egg substitition it is moist and delicious. Now that is a good recipe! We made pumpkin bread trains twice as well. That pan works great.
We visited the pumpkin patch with our MOPS group and they set up four stations for the kids to rotate through. A story station, a pumpkin floating station, a build a pumpkin station, and a snack station.
This is J raising his arms when anything "floated" in the water:
We had a fun squadron Halloween party complete with a trick-or-treat table, a sugar decorating table, a coloring table, a craft table, a parade and a pinata.
W taking a whack at the pinata:
J trying one-hand and with tootsie roll pop in his mouth:
W at the trick-or-treat table:
Squadron kid group-shot:
And of course, trick-or-treating last night.
I need to learn how to use my night-time setting and no-flash settings on our camera for night shots...because the sky was so amazing last night but I was having some trouble getting any clear shots. Here is the only one I could get with a bit of the sky:
J still holding out as Thomas.
W and I were behind getting to this door. So the owner had went back in but left the door open. So there is W just standing there. He stood awhile just looking in and waiting. Then said "trick or treat?" Then waited and waited. Finally the man came back and said "oh! You're back for seconds huh?" I had to explain that this was his twin brother and he just got to the door late!
And we are thankful for the extra hour today to start November...we need it!
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