A Whole Lot of Halloween Fun

Halloween is becoming one of those "holidays" that starts earlier each year. We were successful this year at keeping it to a minimum but we still had a busy week. Enjoy the picture post!

Maggie did not like cleaning out

her pumpkin

Kate was happy to get the seeds out

The finished jack-o-lanterns

Trick-or-treating at Boo Haha on Brookside

Maggie loved this bowl

We ran into Clark and Caroline and yes,

Maggie's finger is up her nose...new

past time

Halloween dinner at the Rabb's

The crew: Bat Girl (Caroline), Iron Man (Luke),

Superman (Clark), Tinkerbell (Caroline), cheerleader

and Minnie Mouse

They were all pretty good at trick-or-treating

Happy Halloween 2010!

Dress Up Days

Each girl had the opportunity to wear her costume to school last week. Maggie got to wear hers on the 27th and Kate on the 29th.

Miss Connie said that Maggie did not want to change out of her costume into her school clothes so needless to say, I picked up Minnie Mouse too. She was so excited about her "Middy" costume!

Ready to head to school

Minnie with her friend, little piggy (Kynlee)

Kate got to wear her costume on Friday morning for the Halloween parade. They paraded through the halls of the ECLC for the parents and then headed over to the Middle School to show off their costumes for the big kids. Kate said they wanted to high five her, but she had never met them before so she was shy!:) That afternoon Kate's class had their Halloween party and she and her classmates had a great time eating snacks and making ghost suckers.

So excited to see us at the parade

Ready to dig in...check out that cute jack-o-

lantern orange...a mom "carved" those and put

fruit inside!

Craft made:check; Can I eat it?!

Great way to kick off a busy Halloween weekend!

Pumpkin Patch Fun

We got to visit two pumpkin patches this year - Pumpkin Town and Carmichael's. We had never been to Carmichael's and were excited when we were invited to our friend Kynlee's birthday party. The girls had fun riding ponies, feeding animals, riding the hay ride, and of course eating cupcakes.

Celebrating Kynlee's birthday

Feeding the goats

Throwing food at the goats because she

was afraid they would bite her!

Hay ride

Pony ride

Mags loved riding her pony

Pumpkin Town is the patch that we visit every year to buy our pumpkins for carving. The girls love the inflatable slides and the pony rides. And Kate was lucky enough to get to go again on a field trip with her class.

Posing with their pumpkins

Loving the pony ride

Kate loved her pony too

Glammy and Papaw came to play at Pumpkin

Town too

Kate's class at Pumpkin Town (Kate is the 5th

kiddo in on the left)

Kate with her friend, Lauren

Having fun with her friend, Darby

Orange Day

Maggie's class focuses on a color or two each month and for the month of October it was orange. So a couple of weeks ago, the kids could wear orange and Mags loved her orange Halloween shirt - although she wasn't very cooperative getting her picture taken. And she's doing better at recognizing her colors...thanks Miss Connie and Miss Barb!:)

Star Student

Kate was chosen as the Star Student last week at school. Basically this means that she got to do "homework" and fill out an All About Me poster, fill Mrs. Knight's Brag Bag with 5 items, and be the line leader all week.

Her poster questions and answers: favorite place - Disney World (definitely my daughter!), what she wants to be when she grows up - a princess, what she likes best - rice and beans (again, my daughter!) and playing ball, and one wish - cherry ice cream with a cherry on top and she had to draw a picture of herself and a picture of her family.

Her Brag Bag items: Taffy - the blue bear that she sleeps with, a picture of Chuck and Lucy, a picture of her swimming, her photo album from her trip to Disney World, and her favorite movie, Strawberry Shortcake Princess.

She has passed the torch onto the next student but enjoyed her Star Student week.

Tulsa State Fair

I'm not going to pretend that our fair is anywhere near the greatness of the State Fair of Texas, but it's what we've got and we make the best of it!:) We took the girls last Saturday right at opening and it was perfect. The weather was still on the cooler side and the rides were just starting to run so we didn't have a big crowd. The girls loved riding any and all rides, including Maggie who was brave and rode all the big rides with Kate. The only bummer was that the ferris wheel wasn't working so we had to miss it this year. And the lunch of choice: Kate chose chicken fingers, fries, a Sprite, and cotton candy so that's of course what Maggie chose too. I had stadium nachos with fake cheese and lots of jalapenos and ice cream and Ryan had a corn dog and then loved the look of my nachos so much that he got his own and ice cream for him too. Regardless of the location of what fair we attend, the junk food is always in full supply and a favorite!

Waiting for the roller coaster to start - they

look nervous but had huge smiles on their

faces the entire ride!

The swings

Kate was a great spinner on the tea cups - not

too fast and not too slow!

Dancing Queens

Both girls had their Fall Dance Performances in their classes. Kate was really excited because her class got to wear pjs and dance to a song that goes with a favorite book of ours, "Pajama Time." It was a cute, fast paced dance and sometimes the girls had a hard time keeping up. I was hoping it would be tap, but I guess the tapping hasn't yet been perfected so maybe we'll get a tap dance for the Winter Performance.

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Point your toe

Plie - Kate's version!

Maggie's performance was a bit different in that it is exactly what we do every week just with dads and grandparents there to watch. Maggie usually is one of the best participators, but she must have been a bit shy with the crowd because it took awhile for her to warm up and dance and sing. Ryan could definitely tell her favorites though: the song where she bounces on my legs and playing with the parachute.

"Walk Around in Circles" with her

friend, Kynlee

The parachute!

Most importantly, there was a cookie party at the end of each performance and that might have been the favorite...for sure for Mags!:)

Kate's cookie party

Mags' cookie party