fun, fun, fun Halloween

This was Elise's outfit for school on Halloween day


Of course we had to throw some pictures from Halloween up on here.... only a week and 1/2 later. Not bad, really.

Kids had a blast, we really enjoyed it, too. This was our first Halloween w/o a stroller or wagon, and that was NICE! Well, it was nice until the last 30 minutes when the two little ones were both crying, tired, and begging to be picked up... which was right after Adam rolled his ankle and fell hard to the ground while holding Mitchell, who was kind of thrown and then of course screaming. Adam was in pain and couldn't hold anyone, so Mommy was trying to carry two 30 lb kids up a steep hill... oh, man, it sounds bad all written out. Ok, we'll just pretend that part didn't happen. Rose-colored rearview mirror, people. =)

The girls only wanted to be princesses (easy! already have those costumes. Thanks, Paul and Jen, for Elise's dress from two Christmases ago). Mitchell LOOOOOOVES monkeys, so he was stoked to re-use a 5 year-old costume, too. win-win.
We hung out with neighbors we love and all was good. impressive that all 6 of these kiddos were at least 'pleasant' looking-no way possible to get all 6 smiling, happy, and looking at the correct camera.




He's really just awesome. He's been wearing the monkey outfit all week, too... just put it away yesterday.
We gave away 1/2 our candy to some friends who were out of town and didn't get to Trick-or-Treat, but I'm still ASHAMED of how quickly the stuff is disappearing...and it's not the kids eating all of it. augh. "fun size" Kit-Kats are my enemy.

Probably not going to be a professional song-writer...

I just walked downstairs and wanted to get this written down immediately...
Elise is at school, so I was putting Ainsley and Mitchell in bed for naptimes and Ainsley asked me to sing her a song about princesses. I told her that I don't know any songs about princesses, but I could sing something else instead.
Her reply:

"Mommy, want me to sing YOU a song? It's called the Four Princess song."
(she actually sat upright, cleared her throat and started....she swayed the whole time, it was all SUNG in a cute little squeaky voice.)

"There were four princesses-Ariel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, and Aurora. They all went for a ride in the forest one day. One had a horse, one had a unicorn, one on a horsey, one was on a reindeer, and one on a sheep. They were all so happy. They went for a ride in a forest. The horses picked them beautiful flowers. They were happy. All the princesses loved their flowers and so they (drawn out for dramatic ending!)....went.... home.....to their castle."


"That's it. Did you love my song?"

Absolutely. Beats Old McDonald ANY DAY!

that picture was a few weeks ago, but it's sweet, so I stuck it in here. That's her 'new' smile... we do miss the 'growl' smile as it used to be called, but this is cool too.