Party & Trick-or-Treat

I was lucky enough to get away from work for a couple of hours to go to the Halloween party at Punky's today. The kids went on a little walk around the neighborhood to visit some of the retired people and then it was time for some fun and games back at the house.



These are almost all of the kids - yep, all boys! There is just one 3-year old girl missing (at morning pre-school) and Miss Vicky's 18-month old daughter and of course Baby Paige and Punky's Baby Nicholas.




Mummy wrapping Jett!


Luke's turn to be mummy-wrapped!


Buddies! (Jack, Luke, and Jett)


And a little musical chairs!


And one quick story - Luke's friend AJ kept saying "Hey Mom" to me and then telling me something. Finally when they were eating lunch, AJ said "hey mom" again and Luke looked at him and said "that's not your mommy". It was too funny and cute!

My little kitty who just minutes later had a blowout and that was the end of that costume for the day!


I was also lucky enough to leave work a little early today so we could get home and get ready for trick-or-treat! Our town's hours were from 4-8. Wally and Luke headed out around 4:45 for about an hour. Wally said Luke got tired of it and wanted to come home - ha!



Heading out!


Paige did a little bit of this while I handed out candy!




My favorite trick-or-treater of the night!


And just for the record, because a lot of people (ahem, Wally) think that I don't like Halloween, I do like Halloween. I enjoy dressing my kids up and seeing all of the kids come by the house, but I don't see the point in spending a lot of money on a costume that is worn once or twice. I think you can have fun cheaply. I also am not a huge fan of dressing up myself, but I will ALWAYS make sure my kids enjoy Halloween. So this year, just to show that I am not a Halloween dud, I picked up a little something from Wally World. Wally was quite surprised when I came downstairs in my "I'm the good witch" t-shirt and Halloween socks. He was very impressed he said. Now Wally says that he loves Halloween and always says he is going to dress up (at school and when he takes Luke out trick-or-treating), but he never does - so who is the Halloween dud now?!?! LOL Here are some pics to prove that I can and do dress up!

Luckily Paige had one more Halloween outfit hanging in her closet. I had kept thinking it was going to be too small so I never put it on her, but it fit perfectly! I guess she wanted to wear this outfit hence the blowout earlier in the day!

Daycare Halloween 2010

Luke and I had a lot of fun at the Halloween party at Punky's this year. I always enjoy seeing Luke with all of his friends.

All the toddlers


Prayer before the cupcakes I brought


I hope Jett's mom doesn't care he ate his cupcake in his costume :O


A perfect pirate mustache


Luke's turn in the ;parade of costumes; - telling Punky what he is dressed as.




Singing some Halloween songs


All the kids!




Luke and his best friend AJ enjoying their rice krispies together! (They actually sat down this close to each other!)

A First

I never have a problem dropping Luke off at Punky's in the morning. Well, I shouldn't exactly say that. Everyday I feel that mommy guilt. Everyday. I walk back to my car after saying "love you, have fun, bye bye" and wish that I could spend the whole day with him instead of going to work, but then I remember how happy and excited he is to see Jamie in the morning and try to get on with my day as best I can. Lately he has been almost taking off out of my arms before I can even get a hug and a kiss in there. He hears the kids in the other room and heads straight to his chair to eat some breakfast. The only time the mornings are a little rough is when Jamie isn't there and Punky greets everyone in the morning. The kids all love Punky, but they don't love seeing her in the morning. It totally throws them off and Luke is included. Jamie was off last week for a couple of days and Luke was a little hesitant to go in the first day and the second day he full out cried (broke my heart). So we are always thankful when we see Jamie there in the morning, luckily she barely takes any time off!

Pick up time is always great. As excited as he is when I drop him off in the morning, Luke is at least 10 times more excited to see me (or Wally) when I pick him up and that makes me a very happy momma! His little legs go as fast as they can to get to me and I get the biggest hug and smile ever! He waves and says bye to everyone and off we go.

But today was different. He was still just as equally excited to see me, but he wasn't quite ready to go home!

I pulled up to the house and went to walk into the house, but the door was locked, which means the kids are in the backyard. So I headed to the back and as I peaked over the fence, I saw Lukey running out of the house into the backyard. He seemed super excited to get outside! Punky unlocked the gate for me, and he saw me as soon as I walked in. He came running up to me, like always, but then he just as quickly pointed to the yard and said 'ball'. He was off to get the basketball that was in the grass. And then he was off to climb on this tiny tricycle they have out there, and then he was off to stand on the scooter with training wheels, then he was off to try to climb the slide steps (until he was told to get down), and then.....he just kept going. Everytime I tried to tell him it was time to go home, he would run off to do something else. He just got outside, he wasn't ready to leave. So we played for a bit with everyone and then unfortunately, I had to just pick him up and go. He was not happy for about, oh 10 seconds. Once he saw the car, he was good. But that was a first...he was having too much fun to go home. He loves being outside! We finally made it home and had our own fun! We made mini pizzas (on english muffins) and Luke helped to sprinkle the cheese - he thought that was pretty cool. Although it was a 'some cheese for the pizza and some cheese for me' kind of a deal! :)

Name Dropping

Yesterday morning when I was getting Luke ready to go, I was saying some of the kids names from daycare and he was repeating them. So after supper last night, I thought I would give it a try with the camera in hand. He said most of them. I just love his little voice :) Oh and Jack is by far the best one he says...it's so cute! And of course the last part is great - we need to make sure that Cubbie Blue is running through his veins at all times ;)

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