October 2011

Here is what we did in October that didn't have anything to do with Halloween. We had a lot of fun, but then, we always do!

Clay at the Children's Museum with DADDY!

More Daddy time

the Lego exhibit

Dick's!

After seeing Elvis Costello on her morning dose of Sesame, Jill asked to dance to his music:

Visiting Daddy at the Great Seattle Fire Day at MOHAI

dressing a firefighter

such a grown up girl!

pretend breakfast

building with the Megablocks

Daddy came home after a 48 hour shift plus time spent at the museum, and Jill had this to show him:

school time

a serious writer...this is her least favorite "school" activity

my spaghetti sauce taster

Jill and I had gotten our flu shots the day before, so we took Daddy to get his while Jill sang to him.

with her building at the museum, on the day she decided to become an architect

she wrote a book, and this is one of her illustrations

Playdoh cakes are a daily occurrence at our house.

making a rainbow with the flashlight, paper, and water

Making letters out of straws (a during Playdoh play discovery).

egg race at the museum on World Egg Day

reading together on the couch

teaching Pop all about the lightsaber battles dvd

Lightsaber battles recap:

Pumpkin Patch and Halloween 2011

We had a great Halloween this year. Trick or treating was very fun, but it turned out that candy turns Jill into some unrecognizably demanding, greedy little being, so I invented the Candy Witch. She comes and takes your candy and leaves you a cool toy. Jill was ALL IN for this idea, so we wrote a letter and put out the candy, and it was replaced the next morning with a new Star Wars toy. Bless you, Candy Fairy, and moms who have done the Christmas shopping way too early! :) Happy, lovely, perfectly sweet little Jill has returned with the departure of the candy. So weird!

posing at the Children's Museum

Lowe's Monster Machine

"Hawwoween cupcakes"

"Mmm, these are delicious, Mommy."

ghost pumpkin

"This is a good one!"

"A little help."

getting so grown up

little pumpkin with a pumpkin

I cropped this, but it didn't work

laughing it up with Daddy

sillies

the beginnings of the R2-D2 pumpkin

all ready to trick or treat, as Yaddle

light saber is ready!* She knows she shouldn't have a red lightsaber as a Jedi, but her Jedi one was too heavy to carry around all evening. The red one is smaller.

I look like a weirdo, but she looks great!

posing in a yard

even Jedi get tired