i’ve been a little busy, people. we’ve been carving pumpkins. and painting pumpkins – i’d have pictures, but they realized they could peel the paint off before i could snap some photos. the baby is no longer a slug – i can’t just set him somewhere and expect him to stay – so now i’m doing a bunch of chasing down and cleaning up (for instance he knocked my full coffee cup out of my hand the other day!)
i still have no idea what my children are going to be tonight. no idea. except that my girl is going to be a princess (duh!).
and we had our first annual halloween party with the draper’s! it was so good! i forgot to take any pictures, but luckily, maury took plenty so jump over to her site! we drew little paper pumpkins out of a box that had the steps from a pumpkin seed to a jack o’lantern drawn on the back and they all stood up and got themselves in order. we learned that halloween is october 31st and how to say october in spanish. they estimated how many pumpkin seeds were in the jar and then we counted together (kind of!) and my second oldest won a piece of candy for his guess. we learned a pumpkin poem with hand motions. we did a popcorn skit and ate popcorn while watching a halloween show. we made pumpkin pockets, and lollipop ghosts, and spider books. plus, there was a whole lot of running around yelling, jumping, playing, and swinging! and i got to sit and have apple cider with a great friend! how much better could the day have been?
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and as i read back over this what strikes me is just how perfect it all sounds. ahahahaha! and i know how i feel when i read other people’s blogs about all the nifty stuff they’re doing and think – man, what am i doin’ wrong, ’cause my family don’t look like that?! so, keepin’ with my keepin’ it real – i seem to have given the impression of perfection. not everyone participated in any one thing we did at the party aside from the movie. as i mentioned, the painted pumpkins got peeled, the carved pumpkin had many fits and arguments over what the face would look like. my daughter’s been sick so i can’t tell you how many diapers i’ve changed in the last week! (and yes, i dragged (drug?) my daughter to the pumpkin patch with the full expectation that she would puke – amazingly she didn’t). just lettin’ ya know – the last 3 posts that have seemed so from the movies - so aren’t. we just focus on the best parts and shrug off the parts that stink. like bedtime last night. let’s not talk about that.
