Halloween & other fun stuff

On Saturday we went to go pick up approximately 1,000 doughnuts from Krispy Kreme that they donated for our church‘s Great Pumpkin Party & weekend services. It took about an hour for Chris to pack them all in, so Sam, Addi, & I hung out inside watching the doughnuts being made. An employee gave them each a “Halloween bag” with 2 mini doughnuts each! They also got balloons, although they were quickly lost. There was a “scary pumpkin” there. I had to convince the kids to stand next to it to get a pic. Here’s Samuel:

And Addison:

Then we got to go to our church’s Great Pumpkin party that Chris was organizing. Addison dressed as a ladybug:

And Samuel was a “wok staw” (rock star). Chris made him a “keytar” out of cardboard, but I didn’t get a picture of it. Here’s a side view of Sam & his neck tattoo:

And a close up of his hair:

Our last sermon series was on “Meds” so our Pastor had the idea for us to dress up at our Saturday night service with meds as our theme. So I went as an injured person & most people thought I really had hurt myself. Imagine a wrist brace, ankle brace, head wrapped in ace bandage, a crutch, a realistic bruise on my cheek (thanks to my sister-in-law) and a 6 1/2 month pregnant belly. Yeah. Some people were sincerely concerned & looked like they’d call the authorities if need be! Here’s a close-up of my bruise (sorry it wasn’t that great of a picture nor was it the whole costume):

Samuel decorated a pumpkin Friday night but I haven’t taken a picture of it yet. The pumpkin we picked for Addison to decorate got messed up so it was put on our porch. A wonderfully sneaky squirrel rolled it down our porch steps, breaking it open, and was having a feast. The kids thought it was really funny.

On Thursday night we went to our local mall & since Sam is a “Giggle Gang” member there, he got a free ride on their Halloween train. It went in a loop 4 times. Sam thought it was great. Addison thought it was not-so-great because I left her with daddy so I could stand in the enclosed train area. Oops.

And completely unrelated to Halloween, we decided to make pop-tarts from scratch this morning. The kids liked them but I didn’t. 🙂 Here’s Sam spreading his jelly (dunno why it’s so foggy):

Here’s the almost-finished product. We put homemade icing & non-homemade sprinkles on it after this picture was taken:

That’s it for now. Addison is getting over a flu-like sickness so I’ve been doing almost nothing the past couple of days! It’s crazy how you can get into a routine then something “happens” and you get back out of it. We’ve had lots of snuggle time lately, though, and I’ve enjoyed it. Have a great week!

Leaf week

We’ve started the “fall” themes now. Last week was “Leaf week”. We collected a LOT of leaves from our walks in the warm weather last week. I had several projects, games, activities, etc. planned but only got around to a few of them. We had fun though, and the kids liked just carrying around the leaves everywhere (yes, inside the house). Addison especially liked crinkling them up, getting little bits of dried leaves everywhere. Yay. 😉

On Tuesday night, we made leaf-shaped sugar cookies:

Samuel also did some “fall themed” preschool worksheets – one of them had the whole alphabet to trace. I was going to have him do 5 letters so he wouldn’t be overwhelmed, but he wanted to do them all. So he traced all of them! He also counted how many of each object was in a picture & circled the correct number for each set:

Hmmm… Apparently I didn’t take as many pictures as I thought I did. We also put a leaf under a piece of paper & colored over it to see the leaf-shape come through. Samuel wrote his name by himself. I helped with the S & U, but the other letters he did by himself!

We sorted the leaves according to size & talked about the colors, differences, similarities, etc. We also made “leaf placemats” – put a towel down, then a piece of wax paper, then Samuel arranged some leaves. Then you put another piece of wax paper down, then another towel, and you iron over it with a pretty hot iron. It melts it together. You trim the edges & voila! A placemat!

We also sang leaf songs & let our leaves fall to the ground, and read books about leaves.