Halloween and more!

 

Ty has recently started playing Basketball, and this is quite a funny development because aside from shooting around on our FisherPrice hoop down in the basement, he doesn’t really have much experience with basketball :)

Look how HAPPY he is :)

Leading up to Halloween, the kids’ school held a Decorate a Pumpkin with Dad night (because of the timing and a quick dinner before, I tagged along and served as the photographer and possibly the peacekeeper as well!)

Look at that masterpiece…

But wait!  It’s not complete without a……

CAPE!

Marlo hard at work with Daddy right there helping…

 

Having a quick cookie treat :)

For months we had planned on going to Disney On Ice, with great tickets/seats.  The Friday of the event, Ty was sick that morning and we decided he would not be able to go :(  So, with the help of GG and Grandpa (thank you thank you!) Tommy and I took Marlo on a little date all by ourselves.  She was in HEAVEN!

Unfortunately, I was so crazed from dealing with Ty that I did not charge my camera, so these two pictures were the only ones I caught with my camera.  (I have a few other on my cell phone, but they’re not super quality.)

“Thanks Daddy for my $12 Ariel cup!”

 

Look at that happy girl, posing from our seats-which were amazing and front and center :)

Everyone was fine and well for Halloween and we were so thankful for that.  Here I am modeling my “costume” (which Tommy insisted on!)

 

The kids got to dress up for school Halloween morning, and Marlo was SO excited to turn the corner and see her teacher, Mrs. Mumper, dressed as…

Since the rain cleared up, they were able to do their costume parade around the school.  So adorable…

Here’s Marlo, um, I mean BATGIRL, coming out first.  She caught a glimpse of me and got so excited.  Such a sweet heart :)

I got a markedly different response from my macho little Batman!

He walked right by…

 

And with a straight face, just kept on going…I personally think he is a bit young for the whole “You annoy me, Mom!” thing!

Ty was very excited about this BIG Batman (the only male teacher at the school!)

And here he is posing with his teacher Mrs. Ricciardi.

Finally, Halloween night came and at 5:59 PM the kids were READY to go!  Before heading out, we did a few cute pics out front.  (But not before scarfing down a leftover dinner and watching half of Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown-which I think might be a fun new tradition to start because after we got home from trick or treating, the kids finished watching the show.  Perfect timing!)

I remembered to sneak in for a pic

And I’m sure I’ll kick myself for posting this later on…but goodness would you look at that BELLY!  Yikes. 

The kids had a great time Trick or Treating just on our street (that’s all I could walk) and enjoyed getting the candy, but interestingly enough the parts they enjoyed the most were checking out the other kids’ costumes and also handing out candy back at home!  And how could we forget just how many times Marlo explained, “I’m BATGIRL!”  Every person she saw that evening heard her state that very proudly :)

And now that Halloween is over, we are in “baby mode”, ready to see this new little girl pretty soon in the next month or so! 

Fall Activities Aplenty

On a chilly Saturday morning we headed out to Burger Farm (just like EVERY year!) and took part in more Fall rides, games and activities…

Driving some ATVs (let’s not discuss how many times Ty crashed into the bales of hay!)

 

Eek!

 

Braving the maze (they love getting lost in it every year!).  And of course Marlo has her trusty pink blow up sword to see us through (sadly that sword didn’t even make it out of the farm, it got a hole in it in a matter of minutes, what a value for our money, ha!)

Will he go in or won’t he???

 

Yep!  And he safely made it out the other side!

Visiting friends in “HalloweenTown” (of course they ran to this familiar set of characters (Disney, naturally!)

 

Is it just a “boy” thing or what, but Ty had to try and find the BIGGEST most macho looking pumpkin in the whole place.  Of course his muscular abilities were not quite up to removing said pumpkin from the farm, but he was ambitious in his search, I’ll give him that!

Good ol’ hugs in the pumpkin “patch”.  (Now if that isn’t a forced pose, I don’t know what it is!)

Time for carving…

There’s our scary Jack O’Lantern (don’t you think the mouth makes is SO scary???? That was Ty’s contribution!)

(I told them to give me their “scary” face.)

Next up was a Halloween Party for the kids.  And this was such an awaited party, as it required FULL costume!  Ty was itchin’ and scratchin’ all day to pull that costume from his closet and get dressed up!

Marlo playing a fun water game followed by a bean bag game (and let me just tell you, the amount of, ahem, CRAP toy prizes we now have in our bags, car, playroom, carseats, etc. is just RIDICULOUS!)

 

Ty and his best bud Mikey  (Oh, pardon me!  I mean BLACK BATMAN & BUMBLEBEE!)

Marlo and Lilly hijacking the games and playing their own way :)

Despite these jacked-up looks they only had ONE tiny pumpkin cookie each…but you gotta love that emotion!

 

Standing in line for balloon creations…

(they almost ALWAYS ask for a weapon of some sort, of course!)

 

Mikey sharing Marlo’s excitement over her Ariel balloon :)

Like I said.  Weapon.

 

Whew, what a schedule.  Saturday Burger Farm, Sunday Children’s Halloween Party and Monday Turner Farm for Ty’s School Field Trip.

This field trip to the farm had been rescheduled from another day (rained out) and just this morning as we were getting ready to leave the sky and weather radar were not looking too promising…sooo, I made an executive decision that it’d probably be cancelled again, so I left Ty home (with Daddy) while I took Marlo to school.  Just as I was coming home it was as if someone was playing a joke on me and the skies parted and it was gorgeous and blue and a perfect Farm-Field-Trip-kinda-day! 

When we got there we were clearly late and the rest of the class had gone off to other areas of the farm, so we hiked down a gravel road…

 

We caught them in the sheep pasture, ready to feed them freshly picked turnips.  Ty hopped right in there and offered up some of the yummy vegetable (of which he did taste last week in school, ask him his verdict!)…

Waiting on the herd to approach…

 

“Here, maybe if I wave this leafy turnip in the air they’ll come running…”

Sure enough.

I don’t know if you can tell from this picture like I can (since I know my boy’s mannerisms so well) but he is most definitely opening his mouth wide in either a grin or like a mommy does when she feeds her baby some baby food!

 

Little man :)

Next, it was time to see some pigs…and feed them the remainder of the turnips.

 

Our mode of transportation through the farm was a horse drawn hay ride..this is Ty’s MOST EXCITED expression, ha!

 

Bees. Bzzzz.

 

All of a sudden, on our hayride, the farmer guide stopped our carriage and told the children to start calling “REGGIE!” very loudly…

This is who came sauntering up…

 

It’s hard to gauge just how big he is, but that pumpkin was VERY large.  He ate it in a few minutes.  The fat pig also weighs about 300-400lbs. :)

The whole class.  We love Mrs. Ricciardi and Mrs. Hinkle!

Our very last stop was the pumpkin patch.  And this was a REAL pumpkin patch :)  Check out those clouds looming on the horizon…

Macho.  Boy.  HUGE PUMPKIN.  Like I said. 

This was seconds after we got in the car.  POURING.

 

What a great field trip.

And right now, I’m out the door to take Ty to his very FIRST Basketball Practice. 

I have my camera.  And my sense of humor.  Blog to follow I’m sure :)