Pumpkins, Ghosts & Sugar Cookies

Colin's face painting

A few weekends ago, we had a day of Halloween/Fall preparation.  We got the kids costumes together, decorated, did a few festive crafts and baked some Halloween sugar cookies. Colin decided that he wants to be Iron Man this year. It was such an important and tough decision.  If we do multiple events, I may see if he wants to use his Marine BDUs (battle dress uniform) as well.  I am making a little witch outfit for Mae.  Nothing fancy.  I wanted to make something simple that she would not mind actually wearing it for a long period of time. 

Colin and I made a monster box, a spooky house and did a Halloween painting during our craft time on Monday.  I just love this time of year and thanks to pinterest I have found some good crafts to try. We will be making these bat pumpkins next weekend. We bought some little pumpkins for it today. Last weekend, we made this felt pumpkin face and this spooky painting.

This was the smaller one

This weekend we decided to go to the pumpkin patch. We were planning on going next weekend but it is getting colder quickly here so we did not want to risk the good weather. We tried a new place this year. We enjoyed the change but I think our original place may be our favorite. The nice thing about this one is that we did get a free pumpkin per person.  The neat thing about this patch is that it had quite a few animals.  There were two turtles...HUGE turtles.  It was so weird to see them move their heads and limbs.  I never really noticed how odd they look.  It could be that we were just very close to these guys. Very wrinkly.

 Meli loved the animals.  There was a section where they were in stalls and you could feed them and then they also had an open area where you could pet the little guys.  Colin enjoys the animals but he does not really care to touch them.  I must have a thing for pigs.  I adored this little guy below.  Meli did too.  She was chasing him around a bit. I think he was chasing Colin, poor guy.

 Meli's approach: get in their face 

Colin's approach: say "hello" from a safe distance. 

The boys, as in Will and Colin, LOVE the big slides. Thankfully this place had them as well. Meli went down the big ones for the first time and loved it too. I know that Will really wanted to go on the zip line they had but it was sadly only for kids.

 I thought his head was stuck at first.  We tried to get Meli to do the same thing but it was not so successful.  We got some pictures of her walking away though.

 This is the closest we got. Once I left there was no hope.

 I was so glad that they had a measuring thing. We have taken a picture of Colin at one of these every time we have gone. I love looking at how much he has grown.

 I love this next picture...our two beautiful kids.  Colin is such a good big brother. Meli balances the sweetness and pestering fairly well.

 They do have a good relationship.  They annoy each other but are good at recognizing when one needs hugs, even Meli will do that for Colin.  They also make each other laugh a lot.

Had to get the boots.  She loves them Grammie!

Mommy & Meli

The place also had a lot of playthings.  There were bouncy gyms, pirate ships, a haunted buses and then little areas for toddlers to play. 

Once we are able to decorate and carve our pumpkins I will post pictures.

~ Love, Hugs & Kisses ~

 The B Family