Halloween

Carving Pumpkins!!

 Andrew got into it. Eating the slimmy pumpkin guts. ew. Zola helped a little. And Dennis didn't need any help at all.

 Zola's pumpkin: stick figures of our family.

 Dennis's pumkin eating two other pumpkins.

 And I got to do the one in the middle for Andrew. I'm sure that's what he would have told me to carve.

 I love my kids.

 Zola's Halloween Dress! Thanks to Grandma. it was perfectly elegant. I tried to convince Zola to be Princess leia but she recently watched a Barbie princess movie and would't budge from the "pink princess".

 Round two with the monkey costume. This was Dennis's costume when he was little.

 And Dennis changed his mind from Luke Skywalker when he saw this Ninja outfit at Target.

 Pretty cute gang.

 Andrew went missing for a while and I decided to go look for him. I was legitimately worried that he choked on something in the basement with nobody to help him. I looked for a while and couldn't find him... then, there he was eating through the wrappers of Dennis's candy. Dumb dumbs are his favorite. Of course he didn't want to be found.

 We went trick or treating up in Minneapolis with Randy's family. It was perfect weather! Unseasonably warm for Halloween and we didn't complain. Randy's neighborhood is perfect. They block of a street and have a bon fire in the road with hot dogs, glow sticks, and hot chocolate. We just might make this our new tradition.

 Andrew, Zola, James, Dennis, Bode, and Owen.

 trick or treating with friends is so much fun.

kid adventures in October

He is completely clueless why we were laughing so hard.  

 Riding horsey is a game we often play. To make things fair, we all have to take our turn. He doesn't mind at all.

 Oh the abuse that the third child gets all in the name of "fun". Zola loves stickers... but doesn't quite know how to use them yet. She found a good place, don't you think? Andrew was a really good boy.

 These cuties can't hide it when they drink Gatorade. Blue and Red.

 ... that day that I took my mom and my sister in law Chrissy to Costco in Eden Prairie and we randomly ran into my brother on his lunch break... He was a bit shocked. He was with a coworker and said, "look! It's all the important people in my life!"...all except his dad.

 Ryan is such a good dad, even teaching Zola how to use a hammer... But of course, Dennis had to be supervising as well. Lol. He is such a helper that he doesn't like to miss out.

 October 24th. The day that Andrew was playing with the balloon so much that he forgot that he was walking!!! He continued to walk about 5 steps at a time but only when his hands were full.

 Stake conference was a hoot. Andrew thinks he can fit in any crevice and I saw him open mouth kiss a toddler girl who reciprocated. oops. luckily neither of them were sick.

 We like avocados.

October

At home depot, Andrew was the happiest little driver! He was so excited. 

 I transplanted my geraniums into pots for the winter and I had the cutest helper!

 This girl LOVES anything pink. "mom, I found a pink leaf!"

 family bowling night. Andrew LOVES balls and spent the whole time rubbing them since they were too heavy to move.

 Zola loved the shoes and wanted to keep them.

 For the record: I won... by a long shot. That doesn't happen very often so I have to toot my own horn.

 My little wonder woman ballerina?

 I was all done. I successfully painted some furniture all while combating Andrew's continual attempts to sabotage my project. I put my brush and paint can away and looked at my phone for a second... Then I saw him... tasting my stir stick.

 baths are no longer casual with this ducky. He means business. On the move. All the time.

 Melt my heart! Dennis was on babysitting duty while I ran outside for a minute. When I came back, they were watching a movie, like this.

 These kids can only stand watching my do projects for so long before they demand a project of their own. Thankfully I had these Home Depot projects for kids up in the closet from Grandma. They were exactly what we needed. Painting and hammering.