Treats for 3

Halloween with my 3 little treats was so fun this year! We got into the season early putting up all our decorations the first week of October. The girls said they wanted a "spooky house" so we had 2 giant spiders (Itsy and Bitsy) and their webs, 3 "friendly ghosts" (Sophia, Alexandra & Lucas), hanging around our front door and about a dozen skeletons (all named Skelly) hanging from the maple tree in the front lawn. Along with "Scary" the "scarycrow" and his pumpkin "Pumpkinie" The only thing left to decide on were the costumes.

The girls both wanted to be princesses this year. Yeah! I know it's not about me, but princesses are so much more exciting to me than last years choice of costumes; Buzz and Woody. Anyway, Sophia wanted Sleeping Beauty and Alexandra chose Belle from Beauty and The Beast.

Perfect! So, I had their costumes made thinking they'd love that idea since they wouldn't look like all the other princesses we were sure to see Halloween night. My mistake!!!!!! The costumes came and tho they thought they were pretty they just "didn't look like princess costumes." Not shiny enough or sparkly enough or not enough polyester, I guess. So off to the store we went looking for "real princess costumes". And this is what they choose... "Ballerina Sleeping Beauty and Ballerina Belle"
Then came Lucas. Originally I was going to have Lucas be Prince Charming but once again at the very last minute (the week before to be exact) the girls thought he should be an "evil monster." Why? Well, there's a bad dragon in Sleeping Beauty and The Beast of course from Beauty and The Beast. So rather than wearing his Prince Charming outfit, he wore his Rex costume from last year. Now everyone, even mommy, was happy!

So my eager Princesses and Monster gobbled down some dinner and started Trick or Treating! The Zimmerman's and their "Round Up Gang" Ansley as Jessie and Landon as Woody joined us. As well as Princess Clara and Ballerina Rachel two friends from our neighborhood. After an early start and plenty of candy, we were surprisingly still in bed by 8:30. Not so bad, only one hour past their bedtime. I was actually thinking we'd be out longer but when Sophia & Alexandra said their "legs were starting not to work," we took that as a hint and came home before anyone had a Halloween meltdown.

So after six costumes and too much candy to count I can officially say this years Halloween was a huge success! So much so, they're already starting to think about next year : )

Pumpkin Patch

The Fall Festival pictures were nothing compared to our annual Pumpkin Patch Picture. Not one child was cooperating this year. Alexandra was off in her own little pumpkin maze world looking for the perfect pumpkin. While Sophia fussed about her pants being ruined by "some slimy pumpkin goo."

Surprisingly, Lucas was the only one willing to sit still and let me take a few shots. So tho I don't have anything decent to share of the girls. Here are a couple of my littlest pumpkin!

The bigger the better right? Until he tried to pick it up. But that didn't discourage him. He just kept on searching ...

Until he found the perfect Lucas sized pumpkin which he didn't put down until we got home!

More Pets

Our family is constantly growing ... no we're not expecting again, we're just always adding new pets. First of course we had Tom & Jerry (Tom's been visiting God in heaven now for 2 1/2 years). Then Duke. And now Tuck the turtle and Freddy the frog. They live in our backyard but both come to visit periodically. We'll feed them and play with them but after a few days, we put them back where we found them so that their family won't get too worried. Oh, and how can I forget Itsy Bitsy the spider who's spun her web right outside the playroom. Yikes! It's actually the biggest spider I've ever seen so needless to say, she doesn't get too much cuddling from us but she's still pretty neat to look at!

However, our newest addition is Popcorn the Praying Mantis. His name given to him by Sophia since she just happen to be snacking on some popcorn when she spotted him.

Sophia couldn't resist holding and petting Popcorn while Alexandra preferred watching him from a distance and cuddling the Rosemary

And right after finding Popcorn, who did Daddy find taking a little swim in the pool. Freddy! He came back to say hello!



And my has he grown! As Alexandra says "He's not our little froggie anymore. He's all grown up" ... "into a big toad" Sophia always adds!

Fall Festival

No better way to kick off Fall than with the preschool Fall Festival!

The best family picture of the bunch! I knew it was going to be hard to get all 3 of my pumpkins to look at the camera, but not this hard : )

The most popular ride of the festival... the pony ride! We waited about 30 min to go around and around a 50 ft corral but as you can see, it was so worth the it!

Lucas was not about to pass up this opportunity either!

Our very confident rider ... no hands!

While the girls jumped around Lucas went digging for treasure in the hay.