Halloween fun

Cameron and I have been having lots of fun celebrating Halloween. Here are just a FEW of the things we have done this month...

We made a Mummy Buddy using craft sticks and felt

Surprised Daddy with carrot cake cupcakes all dressed up!

Had several versions of a Lightsaber Lunch like this one


Made hand print ghosts

These are the beans Cameron has been playing with


We also read a ton of Halloween books from our Halloween box.

These are some of our favorites this year...

I also printed out some fun games like this movement one

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1aN6aNndLRyOGI1N2I3YmUtYzA0NS00OWM5LTk1MDctMTBkMGEyMmFhZDdj&hl=en&authkey=CLWrlMIL

and this matching one (she also has a shapes and a letters one that we played)

http://lilmoptop.blogspot.com/2010/09/halloween-memory-game-free-printable.html

Anyway tons of fun at our house, so happy and grateful I can be home with the kiddos and do fun activities like these all of the time!

"Lucas Schoolwalker"

Lucas Shoolwalker with his "washoo washoo" (the sound that a light saber makes and what he calls one...

And his master Baby Yoda

Here he is with his game face on

A couple action shots

Getting "Darf Bader"

and the Stormtroppers

"The force is strong with this one"

Some Jedi training

"Hmmmmmm, much to learn, you still have"

The Pumpkin Patch

Cameron's awesome preschool teacher took the class on a field trip to the local farm and pumpkin patch. I went for a trip out of the house. We went through a corn maze and Cameron was more interested in the corn, then the maze.

Then in the pumpkin patch, all he wanted at first was to play with the lady bugs

Now he is excited about the pumpkins!

Here is the whole class!

All our pumpkins (I got such a kick out of the grayish green one, I had to buy it!)

No preschool today (fall break) so we made homemade play dough tinted orange and scented with pumpkin pie spices. Then we played with our new fall play dough mats. We also played with some black beans in a bucket with measuring cups and spoons...
Later today we did a photo shoot of our Halloween costumes and they turned out great, but they were with my bigger camera, so I have to figure out how to get the pictures on this laptop.

Autumn is here!

If you don't live in the desert you will not understand my excitement in this post, but.....

Autumn is here!

I can't believe we live close enough to take a little drive with our family and see this!

and this!
And we were able to dress warmly in October and take pictures like this.


And this!

One more shot of our beautiful drive.

And, OH MY HECK! There are deer just "hanging out" on the side of the road! WHAT! I think we moved to paradise!

we had such a great time, ate at a yummy restaurant in Springerville, went to the coolest little shop in town and really enjoyed our Saturday.

Later in the week, it rained and really chilled down! It's so awesome to put on our long sleeved Halloween shirts and not feel bad for Cameron that it's still 100 degrees outside!

Quick Update

Still no camera hook-up, but I wanted to share what has been going on.
Last week Gray popped 2 teeth out like it's nobody's business! I can't believe it, he is only 3 months. Besides teething week, he laughs and coos all day long and it is music to my ears. He is also trying very hard to wean himself and we had to start supplementing with bottles. Since then, he has really packed it on. Every day he looks just a little bit fatter!

Cameron is LOVING preschool and always wants to stay longer. He comes home singing a little song, or saying a little poem almost every time. He wants me to read to him all of the time and just last week earned his first BOOK-IT for a free pizza. He is incredibly excited for Halloween and Christmas and we have been doing tons of fun crafts and activities.

The weather has really cooled down and with the chill in the air I have been really getting excited for the holidays. I have taken on a few homemade projects for both the boys so we'll see how that goes. I hope I haven't bitten off too much, but the good news is if I don't finish, Cameron's Birthday is in February, so I could give it to him then, right? ;)