Painting Pumpkins

Maia's class had a field trip to a local greenhouse where she was able to pick out her own pumpkin. She was delighted with it, and wanted to carry it with her many places she went.  To that end, Parker needed to carry one around too. So we had to go get him a similar one.

I asked if they wanted to carve them, but as Maia did not enjoy the squishy pumpkin guts when they carved their class pumpkins, they opted for painting them.

They had a ball.

I used a little glitter glue to write their names, and learned that glitter glue will easily peel off a pumpkin. Parker's got fixed  few times before Halloween, but they made it to November!

Art Prize

Aunt Tara and Rachael came for a visit.  We always have such a great time with them!  

One evening we planned on going bowling, but found we wouldn't be able to get a lane until after certain little people's bed times.   So, quick change of plans. We headed to down to Art Prize.  Unfortunately, it was a bit colder than we'd planned for (since we weren't planning on walking around outside for an hour); so we had to limit our stroll to one venue.  But there was certainly plenty to see.

This was certainly a favorite, although we needed to make sure this dino wasn't real, and wasn't going to eat us. You're sure, mom... right?

This giant kaleidoscope was awesome.

It's not that we are unhappy. It's that we're not please about all this standing still and looking at the camera nonsense.

Frog Boy and Mermaid Girl. These were fun!

My. Goodness. When did he get so big?

Climbing this big hill was about as fun as anything we did. But I couldn't help but hear the Little House on the Prairie theme song in my head as I watched Maia run down for the 15th time.

Little Funnies

M: Momma. It tickles when you talk into my earball.

P: Daddy's home. I can mot buh-WEEVit!

M: Momma. I don't ever want to give you away, okay?

M: Why does Parker have such long eyelashes?
He's just lucky I guess.
M: We're gonna have to give them a trim soon!

Upon calming down from a midnight tumble off his bed, Parker asked sleepily, "Who pushed me??"