Trick or Treating

Our town was one of the few who postponed the trick or treating to Friday night due to bad weather.  The only problem with that was that the weather was fine from 4-7 on Halloween night and actually fairly warm.  Wally and I weren't too happy about changing the date and of course Luke wasn't either.  He had been looking forward to it all day!

We decided to put the kids in their costumes anyways and see if our neighbors were home to do at least some trick or treating on Halloween.





And they're off!





After no one answered at the neighbors, they trick or treated at their own house - the cutest trick or treaters I had!



Daddy decided to bring some of his Halloween science demonstrations home with him.

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Finally Friday evening came around and our neighborhood was hopping with kids in costumes!

This is how our kids roll for trick or treating!



Luke was out for over 2 hours with Wally but Paige didn't last quite that long. Both kids made out very well!!!!

Halloween Party!

Luke's class Halloween party was a lot of fun this year!

They started off with some dirt and worms!



Paige was able to have some too!



Then it was time for a couple of art projects!



These two are buddies!



The class minus 2 - they have had a lot of sick kids lately, but so far we have been able to avoid it!



The kids got to put their treats in each other's bags.



This was Luke's treat this year - this is about as creative as I get! Well, actually the idea was from Pinterest, but this is about as far as I go with homemade treats!



The kids sang a few songs for us!



Sibling love!





And last but not least, the kids paraded in the halls for us (it was a very rainy, yucky day!).

Pumpkin Carving

Getting ready to carve!



This year I was a pumpkin :)



I thought for sure Luke would love cleaning the pumpkin out this year, but just like the last 2 years, he wasn't a fan - but he tried!











Paige wasn't so sure about it herself!









Luke did enjoy helping to carve out the face though!





All done!   They both have big beautiful eyes :)



Paigey's mini pumpkin she picked out!



Now it was time for some Frankenstein pudding!





Luke was super excited to see his pumpkin all lit up!

Ghosts Around The Green

We are always sure to hit up some Halloween festivities to make sure we get plenty of use out of our costumes.  The last 2 years we have done a trick or treat trail, but this year we headed to downtown Frankfort for Ghosts Around The Green.

The first part was a Trunk or Treat...



Stacey, Michael, Fiona and my parents joined us this year. Fi was the cutest little Minnie Mouse!



After the Trunk or Treat there was trick or treating in all of the shops.









A gigantic pixie stick - yikes!!!!



The girls!



And the whole crew - we had to bribe Luke with some of his candy to get him to sit!



The photographer we use has a studio downtown and they were taking complimentary pictures - so cute!





Fiona LOVES animals!!!



We had some lunch downtown and then headed back home for some pumpkin carving and Halloween treats!

It was a fun day!

Big Girl

I'm popping in today to brag about our big girl Paige!

We are going on 2 months of no diapers during the day and 1 month of no diapers at night - woohoo!!!

I was never brave enough to go diaper free at night even though she was dry 98% of the time in the morning, but leave it to Daddy to just go for it one night when I was playing bunco. And so here we are a month later and she has had only one nighttime accident so far and will frequently call out for us if she has to go in the middle of the night. Such a big girl!

She has also gotten better with dressing herself. We are definitely in the "I do it myself" phase - which means we need an extra 10 minutes to get out the door. If you start to help with something she wants to do by herself, she will say "No I do it" and will start all over (ie. put her pants back on and then take them off) - it's exhausting - ha! Paige has finally caught on to the "tag in the back" concept for putting on her pants though so that's good! She can take her shirts off but has yet to put them on by herself, but she does pretty good with her socks and puts her shoes on by herself almost all of the time.

And then this has also happened within the last few weeks:



 Once again leave it to Daddy to make this change while I am gone. We had been talking about it, but never really decided whether or not we should convert her crib yet.

Well, Luke and Wally apparently decided it was time. I was freaking out. I wasn't as worried about the night as I was about her napping. She has always been a fabulous napper! Naps have been going ok though. It takes a little bit more effort to get her asleep sometimes, but other days she goes right down.

We have been having a little girl sleeping in our bed at night at least 5 out of the 7 days of the week though! She goes to sleep on her own just fine. We read a book, give kisses and say I love you's and she falls asleep on her own, but she usually wonders her way down the hall to our room and just stands on the side of the bed until one of us notices her and bring her up by us. I know we probably need to make a bigger effort to actually walk her back to her room but we are tired and honestly it isn't worth it (and who doesn't like to cuddle with your kid all night!). Sometimes she comes in at 11 PM, other nights it's 3 AM. We eventually carry her back to her bed before our alarms go off at 5:30.

The only "baby" thing that is left is her "bobby" (paci). And we are down to 1 - yikes! She has thrown all of the other ones away on her own once they got a hole in them. I'm considering getting a backup to at least get us through the plane ride to Disney next month. We will make a push for no pacis once we get back from vacation!

Paige is turning in to such a little girl though. No more baby Paige here :(