Halloween party fun

Tonight was our halloween party! The kids were all dressed and ready to go! Our little doctor and Baby Bear. :)

William was so happy running all over the place waving and smiling at everyone.

This would have been a nice picture of the three of us. Why, oh why, can't I get a good picture of me with my babies? Is it impossible?

Trick or treating... This is all Ella wanted to do all night. "Is it time to get candy yet?"

Ella and her friend.

Overall it was a good time. There was a balloon man that Ella eventually warmed up to and enjoyed as well.

Bats, pumpkins and ghosts!

Ella and I made yummy halloween cookies today! Playgroup comes to our house tomorrow, so we wanted to bake them a little treat.

Ella enjoyed frosting her own cookie, and of course adding sprinkles!

These little guys won't last too long!

:)

Mondays

Lately, Mondays have been our recoup-from-the-weekend down day. We have nowhere we have to be on Mondays, so we usually just hang out at home.

Here are a few things William did today to entertain himself.

I tried crayons with him again. And again it didn't go so well. He attempted to scribble a little...

but mostly just kept trying to taste the different colors. I don't think he liked any of them, but he kept trying!

Then he came up with this little game of lining up the crayons all by himself. I was impressed!

Then William had to spend some time in the bathroom at the sink playing with the water, as he does most days. :)

He thought it was pretty funny stuff!

Halloween Prints

Because William got up at the crack of dawn, he was ready for a morning nap by 9am (and he does not take morning naps anymore). This enabled Ella and I to make these cute prints. A spider, a pumpkin, and a ghost. She wanted to glue googly eyes down too of course.

I think I was more impressed with the way these turned out than she was. :)

Fun Family Weekend

Dave and I are exhausted tonight, but we had such a fun weekend with the kids. Fall is my absolute favorite time of the year, and I am loving all the pumpkin festivals, the changing leaves and the cool, crisp air!

This was so cool! All these pumpkins lit up in the dark. It looked like they were floating!

We waited in a very long line for a hayride.

And in another very long line for this lovely balloon flower. :)

We also went to the outlets and enjoyed the nice weather. They have a nice duck pond where Ella got to feed them, and a playground area too.

William had to get in on the fun too. :)

He liked picking up leaves and throwing them at the ducks. It was cute. :)

Love, love, love days like these.

Footprint Ghost & Witch

William took a nice long nap this afternoon, so Ella and I enjoyed working on crafts together.

First she made a footprint ghost. I traced her foot and cut it out she drew a face and glued on hands. She loved her ghost!

While she was waiting, she worked on coloring this witch by coloring by number.

Then she made a witch with her other footprint.

She glued on a nice green face, eyes and a witch's hat, along with arms, legs and a broom.

She wanted to glue the ghost onto the sheet with the witch. :)

Pretty cute and best of all, Ella had a lot of fun. :)

Candy Corn Math

Everyone in our house loves candy corn! It doesn't help that we're getting free candy corn at cvs. :) So tonight we made some educational use out of the Harvest Mix I picked up at cvs the other day.

First Ella worked on sorting the candy. This was easy.

Then we talked about which there was the most and least of, and guessed how many were in each cup. After that Ella made a bar graph of her candy corn.

And the cute boy for good measure.

After graphing we worked on some simple patterns. ABCABC and ABAB.

Ella had a lot of fun doing these activities, and especially getting to eat a few pieces at the end. ;)