HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Guess who we were for halloween....









If you answered Bam Bam and Pebbles you would be correct, if you guessed fred and wilma you'd be wrong. You'd also be wrong if you guessed Adam and Eve. It did seem a little obvious to us that we were Bam Bam and Pebbles, but at least fred and wilma were in the same cartoon. However, the people that asked if we were Adam and Eve left us a little perplexed. Perhaps their not at all familiar with their bible stories, or with Cartoons...we don't really know what they were thinking.

Anyways, Carter's social club held their Banquet tonight (halloween), so we had been brainstorming for a while on what we wanted to be. Carter came up with this idea and despite lots of looking for cheap costumes we couldn't find anything. Sooooo after a trip to Hobby Lobby we purchased this material and I decided I would sew them. Now if you know how to sew then these costumes would be a piece of cake, 20 minutes top with a sewing machine. However, I don't really know how to sew, and I don't own a sewing machine (not that I could use it even if I did) so you are looking at the product of about 5 hours of hand stiched torture. But I now am very very proud of my handiwork and really want to learn how to sew for real!
Carter's club decided to go trick-or-treating downtown (which we only ended up doing for like 10 minutes) and then we went to an adult sponsors house for hotdogs and socialization which was okay. The interesting part of the night was when we noticed cop lights in the front of the house and then people said the cop was going around the back of the house. The next thing we know he is hollering at us to get out of the house and put our hands on the wall. At first we were a little worried, especially since the sponsors wife was freaking out saying "what did you all do while we were gone" "why'd we let you come." And then the cop starts asking us questions and telling us he knows we have marijuana and then we start to realize through the dialog that this is one big setup. Finally the cop goes, "I'm just kidding you guys, I'm the next door neighbor and I came by for some hotdogs!" It was very entertaining though and apparently they had been planning it for days.

In the Trick-or-Treat line downtown

Our friends Summer and Waldo...oops I mean Scotty

Bam Bam (with his hat he worked a good hour on)

Pebbles (Can I please say that it took FOREVER to wash my hair out)

Dayschool Halloween Party

Sorry for the lack of posting, but we really haven't had anything interesting going on to post about. Today was our halloween party at dayschool and we started off with going trick-or-treating to all the classrooms so they could show off their costumes, and get some goodies. That went really well although it was very chaotic with so many kids walking the hallways and us trying to herd the super excited kids. Then our day continued as usual with the promise of a party if they were really good once they woke up for nap. We went down for early naps so we could wake up at 1:30 for our party and that went better then I expected.

Our party was fun and I had 4 moms come into to help which was great of them! We had two stations, cupcake decorating, and making a spider. Once they were done with those we ate some yummy food which I was determined to make healthy because I really didn't want to completely sugar up these little 2 year olds who I feel are way too little for tons of junk. So in the morning I let them have one piece of candy after we trick-or-treated, then at the party the only junk we had were the cupcakes and then I had the moms bring in fruit and veggies and crackers to snack on. We made a big mess and it was a little crazy, but it was lots of fun!!

One of the little girls didn't dress up, then a clown, pebbles, a pirate, a bee, a princess, Steve (from blues clues) and a dragon (he doesn' t have the head part on but it was cute).

My kiddos trick-or-treating

I'm passing out candy

Carter herding along some kids

A mom helping with the spiders

Look at that spread!!

First of the season

We just turned on our heater for the first time this fall. Our room was a chilly 64 and we like to stick in the 68-70 range. So, it looks like our warm fall might be coming to a close.

A day at Day School

Now, for those of you who I don't go to church with here are some pictures of my classroom. The jungle theme was the teacher who is taking over for me in january, but I have now expanded on the idea and the halloween stuff, back wall, and both the bulletin boards are all my doing. Enjoy!!
(You can click the pics to make them bigger)

This is the board in my classroom

This is the board right before you com in my room

Today we had a special treat at Day School. The firemen came and gave us a safety talk, and then we got to go out to take pictures with the firetruck. The kids were so excited during the safety talk, until one of the firemen started to put on his fire suit. Then he went from being friendly to being super scary and a few of my kids started to freak out, a couple of them climbing in my lap for safety. But in all it was fun, with my kiddos in their super cool fire hats, fire badges, coloring books, and edible firetruck snack it was a fun filled, tiring day.

Some Kids Loved the firetruck

Listening Carefully

It's the Scary Man
Some kids weren't as big of fans

Now, for those of you who I don't go to church with here are some pictures of my classroom. The jungle theme was the teacher who is taking over for me but I have now expanded on the idea and the halloween stuff, back wall, and both the bulletin boards are all my doing. Enjoy!!