pumpkin day

Grace, Carter Man, and I had a fun pumpkin day!  We started with a pumpkin craft.  Grace said this was her favorite part of the whole day...painting.

Carter was very confused.  I sat him at the kitchen table, gave him a plate, put paint on it, and gave him the paintbrush.  What would you do if you were 21 months old?  You would eat it, of course.  After all, you're sitting at the kitchen table with a plate in front of you.

While the paint was drying and/or being digested, we read some pumpkin books and colored a pumpkin.

Then we played some games with some candy corn and pumpkin numbers.

Carter just ate the candy.

Finally, we finished our pumpkin craft.  And Carter did not eat the glue (I don't think).

He was pretty proud of his pumpkin!

Ta-Da!

There are many more pumpkin post coming.  I just love fall and pumpkins.  Don't you?

The one with way too many pics from Chuck E Cheese's

We got to celebrate Tripp's 4th birthday at good ole' Chuck E Cheese's!  The kids were super excited!

Carter's favorite "game" was sticking the coins into any and every crack that resembled a coin slot that he could find.

He also loved anything with balls!

Even with cousins around, these two still played together most of the time...LOVE them!

Grace just figured out that games=tickets=prizes and she was obsessed with winning!  She used to only care about the "rides."  Not any more!

We ate some pizza with some of our favorite cousins. (Lily, we really did miss you, but we know that you were having so much fun with your friends at school.) My kids know what to do with pizza!  They ate more than anyone else...I think they get that from their Daddy.

We had so much fun celebrating with the birthday boy!  He was so excited that words cannot even describe it!  We love that 4 year old boy a bunch!  Happy Birthday, Tripp!

InstaWeek

this week, i was on fall break and it was absolutely wonderful!!!

i actually cooked, every night!

we ate taco soup...mmm!

all week, grace and carter played together and they played hard!

peek-a-boo!  i see you! 

john and the kids made pancakes for breakfast!

i made cheesy chicken lasagna and it was super yummy!

i worked for about 6 hours on the paperwork for my drop-in evaluation and when i finally finished, i celebrated with my fav, a caramel apple spice!  when i clicked the submit button, i literally began dancing because my stress was gone and it feels won-der-ful!

the next day, with the weight of evaluations off my shoulders, i snuggled with my kiddos in our jammies all day!

they discovered bubble wrap...fun!

we made these cutie paper plate pumpkins.

carter followed grace around all day.  they shared the same chair at lunch time.  she couldn't even go to the potty without her little tagalong.  i'm so thankful that they love each other and that she is a great big sister! 

this little guy was absolutely horrible friday evening.  we were counting down the minutes to bedtime.  an hour and half after he was in bed, i went to check on him.  he jumped up, ready to go.  he played soccer, watched the cardinals, and was in a great mood.  he was just missing his sister, who he kept yelling for..."GAYCE!!!"

today, we went to the pumpkin patch.  it wore him out!  or maybe it was his late night up!

i know that i used way too many exclamation marks, but this was truly a super week!

fall break!

evaluations are over!

playing with my kids!

awesome!!!!!!!

Parent Day

That's so weird to think that I went to Parent Day.  Doesn't that sound like something old people do?  Anyway, Grace had Parent Day at school and we were so excited to go and see how she interacted with her teacher and friends.  She was pretty excited about it too!

So cute!!!

They sang songs, said their Bible verses, answered questions about some Bible stories.

Seriously...in love!

She went up to the front of the room and answered some phonics questions.  She can already blend some sounds together!  You know, like, ta, te, ti, to, tu!

They were learning about the letter Ll, so we got to make a ladybug snack with Grace before we left.

We are super proud of her.  She is a good little girl who always tries to do right and she didn't cry when we left!

celebrating

The Taylor's in Texas stopped by on their way to Disney World (whatever!) the other day and we celebrated Jenna and Jett's birthdays.

Everybody had fun hanging out and eating cake!

Grace & Jenna 

Tripp is such a cutie!

Jett and Carter played together...kinda!

Glad they stopped by before their week long trip to Disney...so not jealous.  Ha!