October Happenings

We played on the computer and apparently Todd joined the Red Hat Society.

We forced the kids to wash the minivan while Brian and I lounged around and ate bonbons.

Hayley quickly realized that manual labor is for the birds and instructed the men to go to work.

But then a random bouquet of balloons floated over from a nearby open house and Brian was flying solo on the whole minivan washing thing. So much for child labor!

And so much for me lounging and eating bonbons. Back to referee duty.

We did some driving.

Todd finally has overcome his fear of the Jeep. Not sure he's quite overcome his fear of his sister's driving.

We once again attended the Creaky Bones race. Hayley competed with her other 3 to 4 year old rivals in the 100 meter dash...



... and Brian successfully defended his third place age group finish in the 5k.

Todd and I spectated... and cheered. I had run 12 miles that morning so opted out of racing. Not sure what Todd's excuse was!

We visited the pumpkin patch.

But the kids were more interested in throwing bean bags at a piece of wood, so Brian picked out a nice pumpkin for carving.


The kids celebrated Halloween by dressing up as a princess and the toad/frog/frog prince (depending on his attitude for the day)! It took me awhile to convince Hayley that kissing the Todd(Toad) Prince would not turn her into a frog. Hopefully I have convinced her that kissing other boys will! ;-)
The kids showed off their costumes at a Halloween party and Trunk or Treating at their school.

And since bobbing for apples seems to have been replaced with the oh so healthy dangling dougnuts game, I at least got some good blackmail material for when the princess is 16.

We attended Boofest on Main Street, because we really thought the kids needed MORE candy.

Todd and Hayley met up with their good friends, Scooby and Shaggy...
... and Hayley showed us that it can be hard being a princess.

We wrapped the month up with some pumpkin carving...

... or rather, Daddy did some pumpkin carving...

... and we'll head out for some trick-or-treating in the neighborhood tonight. Phew!! Since when did Halloween become a month long occasion??

Here's some video of Hayley and her new obsession... singing... this particular song! She heard it on one of her computer games and "practicing" her song occupies many moments of her day!