Entries from October 2013 ↓

It was awfully warm back there in late September.

We had fun in the pumpkin patch until the “pumpkin fight” incident.

In the pumpkin patch, Ezri was marching toward us carrying a 5 lb pumpkin and chanting, “pumpkin fight, pumpkin fight.” Then she hurled the pumpkin at Ivan’s head and bonk. He wailed and she seemed genuinely surprised at the negative responses to her grand pumpkin fight idea. Snowballs and pumpkins are very different. Maybe I should’ve anticipated during the chanting – but really what did she think was going to happen?

Makes this photo a little more ominous as I now know that is the projectile pumpkin.

And makes me glad she couldn’t lift the bigger pumpkins for very long.

After recovering from being hit in the head with a pumpkin, Ivan tripped on part of a plow in a field and cut his leg.
A lollipop was needed to speed his recovery.
Somehow Ezri got one too. Guess what color it was.

Ivan did have some high moments too. He got to meet a llama who he called, “Llama llama red pajama.” He got to slide down a huge tube slide repeatedly and throw worm shaped beanbags into apple shaped targets. While Ezri loved playing in the pit of feed corn and feeling it between her bare toes, Ivan is not interested and kept lifting his feet saying, “get it off!” We moved on to racing plastic ducks with pumps, both kids agree that plastic floaty ducks getting moved by pumping water is just fun.

I think tomorrow we may decorate our haul of 4 pumpkins from this outing. We already ate the apples.

This week preschool is all about the letter D.
I asked Ezri what she wanted to take for D show-and-tell. She said donuts! And suggested we go get some. We did.
We took this picture for her to take to show and tell with some doughnut shaped dog toys her mom happened to have.

I feel like she may be trying to come up with a tasty treat for other letters since I drove through Dunkin Donuts for the letter D.

When she had trouble deciding which kind of donut she wanted, she arranged for Ivan to get the chocolate frosted and her to get the pink frosted and then to half each so both kids could have both flavors.

She thought about being a Super Princess Kitty (from the book of the same name). In this picture she is a Super Princess Kitty with her pink super cape and her kitty hat and her princess dress. She’s holding up a magic ring that spreads friendship wherever you fire it (or so says the Princess Super Kitty).

It turned out when we went out she really wanted a princess crown and face glitter instead of ears and whiskers. She did wear her Super E cape a bit, so she was a Super Princess. I wore kitty ears on a handband and my cape to be a Super Kitty. So together “the girls” as Ezri calls our duo had Super, Princess and Kitty all covered.

Here she is with her brother Super Spider-man, all set to go out.

Here she is very proud of her candy haul from the event.

Nature really does make the best play things and fall leaves are one of them.

Ezri was most distressed that Eric put her “leaf nests” into yard waste bags today.
Given the joy of the leaf piles this week, I should’ve seen that one coming.
But, one maple still has most of its leaves, so I could promise her more nests to build before fall is over.

Most of the time I see my husband in my children.

But sometimes I see myself.

This is Super Sloth and her sidekick, Baby Super Sloth.
They are rescuing the people flying through the air (leaves) so they don’t hit the ground and get hurt.
Super Sloth is the leader because she has ALL the super powers.
Don’t worry.  Regular sloths are slow, but super sloths can ZOOM-ZOOM-ZOOM!

I have no idea where the idea to be super sloths originated.

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 in 3D.

I have never seen a 3D movie in the theater.  So, she’s one up on me.  The kids are enjoying ring pops.

She was helping celebrate her friends J turning 6 today,