Happy Halloween

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet

I try to do some footprint or handprint crafts around holidays.  They are cute decorations and it's always fun to look at how much the boys have grown (and we always love an art project around here!).

I've done footprint crafts for Halloween every other year lately and we are getting quite the collection!  Look at how much Rylan's feet have grown!!!

Carter's too!

And our newest member's little footprint ...

Taking Steps

Grayson has been so close to walking for awhile now.  He's great at cruising and walking when holding onto your fingers.  He'll even stand up in the middle of the floor, wobble around for a few seconds, and then sit back down.  He's just too scared to go for it.

But over the last week he's finally started to take a step here and there.  Here's a video we got today of him taking a few steps!

Trick or Treat

I made these sidelight signs for our front porch.  The letters could be a little crisper but from a few feet away, they look pretty good!

Pumpkin Painting Class

Yesterday after school the big boys took a painting class with Julie Alley.  Ms. Julie has a studio in her home where she teaches lessons and has classes.  For $15 each, we got to drop off our kiddos for 1 1/2 hours and let them paint on an 8"x10" canvas with instruction from Ms. Julie.  One of the moms in Rylan's class told me about the classes and a couple of Rylan's friends also participated.

Both Carter and Rylan loved it.

And they had amazing finished paintings.  Unlike The Art Attic where the instructor did a pencil outline of what the kids would be painting, the kids did these 100% on their own.  I love that they added shading (the pumpkin is lighter on the top) and added some additional white accents on the vines.

Rylan's Pumpkin:

Carter's Pumpkin:

Carter's Report Card

Here's Carter's report card for the first quarter.  As always, he's doing great!  We have Carter's conference this week and I'm looking forward to getting to talk to his teacher!

Here is the key to the numbers on the report card (3's are what you want at this point in the year ... I don't think that 5's are possible since they are shaded out???).

Carter has all 3's and 4's!

Rylan's School Picture

We take so many pictures of the boys that we never buy their individual school pictures.  But, just to share with everyone, here is the proof of Rylan's from this year ...

Little Bro

This guy copies his big bros all day long.

He's even taken to wrestling with them already!  Eek!

Zoo Visit

The boys are on Fall Break (they have Friday and Monday off) and my mom is visiting.  The weather is perfect right now (cool but not cold after a few hours of warming up) so we decided to visit the zoo on Friday.  The big boys don't get to go very often now that they are both in school five days a week.

The zoo is decorated for Halloween right now and the boys loved the candy.

Unfortunately it wasn't edible!

The newest exhibit at the zoo are tortoises that you get to pet.  And for $2 you can feed them a leaf of lettuce!

These guys were our new best friends :)

Our little pumpkins (and scarecrow) ...

Grayson's favorite thing at the zoo is the large aquarium tank.  He loves that he can stand there by himself and be eye to eye with all the fish, stingrays, and turtles!

Little Pumpkin

Missy had her annual Halloween playdate at her house on Monday.  Since the big boys were in school, the only one I got to take this year was Grayson.

We decorated his pumpkin with glow-in-the-dark paint.  I still need to go out and look at it right after it gets dark to see if it actually works!

Our little pumpkin with his pumpkin - I'm biased, but he's pretty cute :)