October Things

Here are some random pictures from October--things I want to remember.

Reading with Daddy - one of my favorite sights.

Playing at Lanea's

 Our good friends, The Higgins, invited us to go to Lagoon with them. Somehow this is the only picture I snapped.

 This is what happens when I wash their blankets. I should have snapped a picture of them when their blankets came out of the dryer. Sheer joy.

 While we were out shopping Clara saw this light pole and said she wanted to go "pole dance."

 While getting Rex a haircut, another girl at the salon offered to do Clara's hair. She even got glitter hairspray.

 Watching some T.V. These kids know how to relax.

I found Rex sleeping like this one day when were up visiting Audra.

Halloween

One day in late September Clara came running into my room and told me she wanted to be a bee for Halloween. So we made it happen. I looked around at bee costumes and couldn't find any that I loved so I made her a little bee pinafore and we found matching wings and antennae while buying the fabric at Joann's. Clara told me several times that Rex wanted to be a grasshopper but I couldn't think of a good/cute way to make that happen. We opted instead for The Hungry Caterpillar. I made his costume as well and had fun dressing my sweet babies up. Since I got strep throat twice during October, I was glad that I got Clara's finished a few days into the month. 

We had trunk or treat at our church the weekend before Halloween and Ben and I dressed up as bug catchers to go along with our little bugs. Clara had a great time seeing her friends and collecting candy. Rex was happy to wander around and enjoy a sucker.

On Halloween night, Ben's parents came over for dinner and trick-or-treating. Connie stayed at our house to hand out candy while the rest of us went out. Since we were in California last year, this was the first year we were able to go trick-or-treating in our own neighborhood. 

Build-A-Bear, or Dog

On Clara's actual birthday we took her to Build-A-Bear and out to dinner--quesadillas--at her request. Clara was so excited when we got in the store, she just ran from display to display looking at everything. It took us a while for to get her focused enough to pick out an animal. She finally chose a dog. While we were getting it stuffed, the employee asked Clara what her dog's name was and after a little thought she said, "Gilbert." The employee asked her, "Is your dog a boy?" Clara said, "No, it's a girl." She had fun giving her dog a bath (multiple times) and picking out clothes. When we were leaving the store, Clara told Ben that she got a little flag for her dog. When Ben asked if he could look in her box she said, "No, you may not." After a little talk, we opened up her box and sure enough, she had stashed a little American flag in the box when we weren't looking. :) Ben went back and paid for the flag and then we went to The Sweet Tooth Fairy to get Clara a birthday cupcake.

Pumpkins

After Clara's birthday party and some much needed napping, we headed to the pumpkin patch to pick our pumpkins. We had an early snow this year, but we still found some great carving pumpkins. Clara and Rex had fun getting muddy, riding in the cart and choosing their pumpkins. While Ben and Rex bought our pumpkins, Clara ran through their small straw maze.

The next day we carved our pumpkins and roasted some pumpkin seeds. Clara chose the little monster, Ben carved the haunted castle, and I did the owl. We had fun lighting them up every evening before Halloween.