How could I forget??

Halloween Costumes! In no particular order....

Dallin was so excited to be Thomas the Train. He sure loves all things trains right now-

Here's Bryson in his most intimidating pose as Darth Vader:
My sister had the costume from years past from her boys and Bryson had already commandeered it before I was consulted, but it required no effort on my part, so I wasn't too opposed. He's not so obsessed with Star Wars as he has been, thank goodness.

And Eli. Dallins Elmo from last year fit. 'Nuff said. He loved the idea of the costume, just not wearing it so much... but for the pictures, well, he tolerated wearing the hat since he was the center of attention.

a frightful trio for sure

Preschool Update

Dallin did great with preschool all of September. Getting him out of bed continued to be an issue, but he was always excited to go once he was up. The month of October, however, he cried almost everyday when we got to school, not wanting me leave! Though Dallin is decently shy and quiet, him crying when I leave him is not his M.O. He was actually getting up himself by about 7:30am, so it wasn't that he didn't want to get up, but rather it all would start when we pulled in to drop him off. The first time, I thought maybe he just wasn't feeling well, so I took him home with me... the second day, it worked out that I just stayed to be the aide, but after that, I just had to just leave and let him cry. He would calm down quickly after I left, but still, I hated leaving him so upset. By the third week of this, I was thinking of pulling him out.. we had a field trip to a farm that week which he was really excited about, so I hoped that that would 'make it better' somehow... but it didn't. I decided that if it wasn't better in a week, I would un-enroll him- I was doing preschool more because he wanted to than anything anyway.

But magically once November came, he happily started going to school again! I have no idea what the difference is, but I'm glad he's happy and enjoying school again.

Pun-kin carving

I know that just as it's somewhat universal for kids to call a backpack a 'packpack', they also call pumpkins, 'pun-kins', but I just love hearing my kids say "punkin" and I never correct them...

 Our annual tradition of carving pumpkins for FHE continued this year... we let the two older boys each clean out and carve their own pumpkin... with a little help of course... Bryson really didn't like scooping out the guts, and Dallin did, which was surprising to me for some reason. Eli wanted to be a part (of course) and had fun playing in the 'guts bowl'- he even tried some of the raw membranes/seeds- he wasn't a big fan.

Bryson wanted his pumpkin to be sticking it's tongue out, "and say Blah!" he's in such a silly boy phase...


Eli had pumpkin guts all over him by the time we were done... too bad you can't really see it in this picture.

We got Dallins pumpkin on his field trip to the farm (which I didn't bring my camera to!!)- I tried really hard to find one that hadn't frozen and thus wasn't mushy- I thought this one was a winner, but after a few days inside, it was rather soft on the back- Dallin didn't mind of course. After he was done, Eli decided he wanted to get in on the carving and made two extra 'eyes' on the back of Dallins pumpkin in the mushy area...

Our spooky pumpkins- unfortunately it was just windy enough on Halloween night to keep blowing out the candles... I'll have to get some electric candles for next year...

Halloween cookies

While the boys enjoyed decorating Halloween cookies for our friends and neighbors, they had much more fun just eating the cookies... And while the cookies were pretty stinking good, they soon figured out the frosting is the best part-

I told them they could each eat TWO cookies... after his first, Bryson licked the frosting off his second one just to frost it again.

I think Dallin had almost as much frosting on him as on the cookie

Eli watched what his brothers were doing very closely and then copied... he did a pretty good job frosting his cookie-

And then, he cut out the middleman.

(As a sidenote for any CPS workers who may be reading this, the knife he's using is actually an hors d'oeuvre spread knife with all blunt edges)

Hiatus

Well, I'm back. Since it snowed last week, I guess my summer break *wink*wink* is officially over. Updates to follow...