Pumpkin Carving

Elena picked up huge pumpkins for her Grandson's and magically found a time that we were free and Jenny and her family were available to get together and carve them!  The kids were all excited to carve the pumpkins.  Timmy and Brayden both helped empty theirs out.  Tyler, on the other hand, didn't even touch the outside of his pumpkin!

We had a few books with patterns to choose from and Tim printed a few super hero symbols off of the internet.  Brayden chose a ghost, Timmy chose the Batman symbol, and Bryce was happy with the bat that Jenny picked out.  When Tim asked Tyler what he wanted, Tyler replied, "Uhm, a Minion."  Tim had to go back to the internet for that one!  The boys alternated being interested in the pumpkins and running around the back yard.  Timmy did about half of his own carving; Brayden supervised everyone.  Tyler did approve of his Minion when it was finished.

All of the pumpkins turned out well and we had a little photo shoot out front with everyone.  Grandad even stopped by to drop something off in the middle of it, so he got a picture with his grandson's too.

Tyler's Preschool Fall Festival and Halloween Party

Tyler had lots of his own fall fun at school with the annual Fall Festival one week, and the Halloween Party the following week.  We had beautiful weather for the Fall Festival with expected rain holding off until dismissal time!  There were tattoos, pumpkin picking, wagon rides, and apple eating.  (Tyler will not eat fruits or vegetables for us, so I had to photograph him eating the apple!)

Tyler spent the most time at the playdoh tables, making all different sizes of balls and also using the cookie cutters for fall shapes.

The hay bale jumping was also a hit!

Their last activity was to go through the Straw Tunnel and pick out three prizes.  Stella searched until she found a purple spider, and that's all she wanted!  Tyler took his time making sure he got exactly the right items!

For the Halloween Party, parents were invited to join the class for the last hour of the day.  The kids paraded through the other classrooms on their way to the activity room.  Tyler had a huge smile through the whole parade!  Please excuse the blurry photos, parading preschoolers are not easy to photograph!

In the activity room the kids sat together and "sang Halloween songs" for about twenty minutes.  There were very few kids actually singing along!  Tyler didn't enjoy this part as much, he was too worried about being right next to Stella, which is where all of the kids like to be.  You can see in the bottom right picture that he was squeezing himself between Stella and another classmate!  He is having a hard time sharing her attention in class, he's used to having one on one time with her!

We went back to their room to finish the party.  I made donut spiders as the special treat and everyone loved them, especially Tyler.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween fell on a Friday before a long weekend this year which meant that the kids had a two hour early dismissal.  This made for even more time to have fun at Reed's annual Halloween Party before dinner at Grandad and Susan's and trick-or-treating time!

Reed's party was a lot of fun.  I love seeing all the kids dressed up and they get to just run wild.  I think a highlight this year was chasing the hired werewolf around (it's a teenager that Stephanie pays to jump out of the storage shed and scare the kids / keep an eye on the kids in the backyard so the parents don't have to) He definitely earned his money this year!  Even Tyler was after him, I don't think Tyler has any idea he is so much smaller then all of the other kids who were in on the game!

There was also a fortune teller, who let the kids pick between fortune fish and the magic 8 ball to ask a question of before sending them on their way with a fortune cookie!  The question of the night was, "Will I get lots of candy tonight?"  

The kids had a blast and we got to relax with some of the other parents.

Tyler found a safe use for his hammer!

And struck an awesome Thor pose!  I taught him to run around saying,  "I am the son of Odin!"

From there we went to Grandad and Susan's for a delicious dinner and to wait for the cousins to show up and for it to get dark enough to trick or treat.  Susan had dressed up this year as well and freaked a few kids out!

I said that Susan looked like the bad guy that all of the superheroes should be fighting, so Timmy changes his pose

They had so much fun trick or treating!  Timmy and Brayden were sprinting from house to house, they will really get a good haul when they don't have to wait for their parents and younger brothers!  Tyler did a really good job keeping up, making it to every house in time to collect candy with the big boys.  If a neighbor opened the door before Tyler got there he'd either yell, "Wait! Wait!" or he'd go ahead and yell, "Trick or Treat!!!" before getting to the door so they'd see him coming!  Bryce went to the first few doors and then happily got pushed around in his car eating some of the loot!

Trick or Treating at the Miller's

Happy 1st Halloween Baby Graham!!!