Rebecca and her cute melted crayon pumpkin.
I helped her melt the crayon and she told me how to cute the pumpkins. She went to town with the black paper and made their faces and glued it all together. I guess I did make the dads mouth-she's good at scissors, but not that good yet. Give her another few weeks and she may be! She said it was a "daddy pumpkin and it's baby." She was so proud of her craft project!
Flying Bats
We wanted a cute, easy and inexpensive decoration for our porch. We decided that flying bats would fit all 3 criterias. We already had the paper, string and eyes. Corrine helped cut out the bats, and then the kids made the faces on the bats. The neon garage sale stickers were awesome to give them bright stand out eyes. We didn't hang as many as we originally thought-the porch ceiling was higher then I realized it was! They looked really neat blowing in the breeze. By the end of the month some got tangled with each other. The kids said they were "mating". I guess that means next year we should have lots of baby bats to hang up!
Pumpkin excitement
Rebecca has been wanting a pumpkin for weeks. Everytime we passed them going in and out of Hyvee she would ask if she could stop and look at them. Today I couldn't take walking past them anymore. She got to pick out her very own little pumpkin to bring home. She was on cloud nine with excitement!! She asked dad to draw a face on it, since it was too small to carve. She LOVED the face dad drew for her and was so proud to put her pumpkin on the front porch for all those passing to see.
Spooky Halloween lunch
We made Frankenstein faces for the Peanut butter cups, pumpkin faces for the peach cups, monster teeth apple slices, frog eye grapes, mummy juice boxes and fishing rods with fish. Ammon said it was fun and alright. Simeon at 1st said it was kind of embarrassing, but then later told me it was fun and creative and wasn't that bad! Corrine loved it and so did lots of her friends. She told me they said her mom was a good artist and did fun things. Rebecca was so excited for her lunch, she opened it well before lunch and loved it all. It was fun for Johann and I to make even if it was a little embarrassing for the boys!
Halloween soccer treats
Ammon got to bring snack to the last game of the season which was the Saturday before Halloween. We drew faces on mandarin oranges for pumpkins, made ghost rice krispies treats and added a piece of candy to halloween bags. They were super fast to make and a cute treat!
He is such a good and entertaining goalie. He gets right into the mist of legs and feet and kicks the ball away if he can't dive on it. He's been scored on a few times this season, but has stopped many more goals from happening. Also at his last game he scored his 1st goal of the season. What a way to end the season-stopping a handful of goals on your team, and scoring one for your own team!!
Halloween party and Parade at school
Rebecca and I got to help out with Ammon's Halloween party at school. Stand around and watch a very well tuned class get ready, and then have their party would be a better way to describe what we did. His teacher is amazing, and had the kids prepared for what to do, and we didn't do much but hand a few cups of milk out and take a few pictures.
Rebecca was in her costume and wanted so badly to walk in the parade with the kids. We ended up lining up with his class and walking around the side of the school to the front, then jumping out and watching the rest of it. One of the kindergarten teachers told us she should have walked with them. She would have LOVED that!! I love our school!!
Grandpa Smith
We went to visit Great Grandpa Smith in Muscatine for his birthday. While we were visiting there was a Halloween party going on with games, treats and trick or treating. Rebecca was the only one in a costume, but that didn't stop us from having fun! I had brought some suckers with me and had told the kids they could have one if they were behaving during the visit. I didn't need to hand any of the earned suckers because they had a bag of their own candy to much on.
Pumpkin Patch
We ran out of time to make it to an official pumpkin patch this year. Boo! Fall is too busy-we need to figure that out. One day we dropped Ammon off at Taekwondo and ran to Hyvee on Waterfront to grab a few things. They had an awesome pumpkin display out front of the store. Simeon was more interested in getting back to his book, (that sentence brings me so much joy!!) but the girls really enjoyed checking out the pumpkins. Getting your picture taken outside a grocery store might be too much for the older kids, so Rebecca was the only one with a ready smile for me.
We had such a fun October getting ready for Halloween. I love the excitement and joy the kids get out of everything we did. It makes the time and energy we put into doing these activities so incredibly worth it!
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