Halloween 2012

Sophie (Merida from Brave) and Abbie (Sleeping Beauty) are ready for trunk or treat!

                                                       Abbie and Anna, one of her best buddies from school and church

Lauren and Sophie

Daddy and his silly girls after decorating the pumpkin.

The girls being silly with Mama (we are all pretending to talk on the phone since we are with the Diva pumpkin).

The girls with their pumpkin shirts on ready for school.  Abbie  wanted this hat from the circus in the picture I guess.

We had a fun Halloween this year.  It seemed to come up on us fast since our Disney trip was just a few days before Halloween.  More on the Disney trip and an early breakfast with Santa coming soon...

Pre-Halloween parties

Bobby and Abbie before we went Trunk or treating

Sophie, Dani, Bobby, and Abbie

Abbie with most of her class at their Halloween party

Here Abbie's class is doing a little Halloween poem where they say  "boo" at the end.  Abbie loves doing this!

Abbie and I after the party- my "Supergirl".

Recently, we spent a week with most of our family at Disney World.  (I will have to blog on that later when I have more time).  When we returned from our trip, we pretty much had to hit the ground running because we had birthday parties and Halloween festivities.  Abbie's preschool party was on Oct 29th and it was fun!  The kids love getting dressed up and trick or treating around the church.  The weekend before Halloween it was really cold!  Our friends, James and Krista McBride, had a Halloween party with pumpkin carving, pizza and then trunk or treat.  We made it for a little bit at Trunk or treat that night but it was really cold.

Discovery Center Field Trip

Sophie with her microscope.

 

Mary, Taylor, Sophie and Nagisa before going into the creek.

 

 

Feeling buggy?

Last week, I was able to go with Sophie's class to visit the Discovery Center.  It was a very warm day and most of us didn't realize that we'd be spending the majority of our morning outside.  We still had a great time though.  The kids were looking for animals in the wetlands, we took a walk, they donned boots and waded in the creek (2 from our group fell in and got soaked), examined fossils, studied algae through a microscope, etc.  They had a little bit of time after lunch to explore inside the museum and then it was time to head back to school.  I felt bad for the kids who fell in the creek because we didn't have any clothes for them to change into.     

Cloverfest

Sophie with Nagisa and Allie-having fun at Cloverfest!

 

Will, Sophie, Nagisa and Allie

 

silly Abbie

About a week and a half ago, they had Spirit week at Sophie's school where they had hat day, crazy sock day, Wacky Wednesday, etc.  At the end of the week, the PTA held the Cloverfest celebration.  They had face painting, a cake walk, bounce houses, obstacle courses, etc.  The girls had a great time!  Nana came as well and the weather was perfect.  This time, I got Sophie's face painted first which was a good plan but Abbie decided to get hers painted later so Nana waited in line with her.  I didn't get a picture of Abbie's face painted before she smeared it badly.  Sophie was definitely a little social butterfly!  She enjoyed seeing all of her friends!  We all had a good time catching up with old and new friends!  Daddy missed Cloverfest because he was out of town. 

Visiting Morgan at 3 weeks old

Abbie with cousin Morgan

Morgan and Abbie hanging out under his play mat. 

A couple of days ago, Abbie and I drove up to Kentucky to visit Aunt Martha and cousin Morgan.  He's 3 weeks old now and we wanted to go for a visit.  Morgan slept for the first 1 1/2 to 2 hours after we arrived but then he was awake for a while.  Abbie was able to introduce him to his playmat for the first time.  Morgan is a sweet baby and Martha is a great mom!   Uncle Matt was in school that day so we didn't see him but we had a good visit.  Morgan had gained one pound since he was born and grown an inch.  We were glad that we could visit sweet little Morgan!

Abbie's 1st Day of Preschool

Abbie on the first day of preschool.

On the Wednesday after Labor Day Abbie (FINALLY) had her first day of preschool.  Can you sense my relief here? I was doing a little happy mama dance over here when her school started back.   I was pretty excited because although I enjoy having special times with my 4 year old, I've also had a growing list of projects that I'd like to complete.   Many of these projects would be easier without children in tow to help me.  Abbie's going to preschool 2 1/2 days a week this year and so far she seems to be off to a great start!  There's a much greater ratio of girls to boys in the class this year than last year.  Some of her friends are in her class also so seems to be a happy girl!  Abbie is in Ms. Gloria's class again and so she kind of already knows the routine and they get along well!

Bridging to Brownies

Several from Sophie's Brownie troop with their troop leader, Miss Carol.

Sophie and I as put on her sash.

A few weeks ago, we had a little ceremony at the park where the girls in Sophie's Girl Scout Daisy troop bridged to Brownies.  We were going to use a larger bridge that cars drive across on one side and have them walk on the little pedestrian bridge (not a busy road or anything but just a bridge that goes into a local park).  Anyway, someone realized that there was a little bridge on the playground so we used that instead for the bridging ceremony.  We celebrated with pizzas afterwards.