Thursday, October 27, 2011

Nana & Papa Come To Visit

Nana and Papa came to visit us for a week and we had a wonderful time together. There was lots of book reading and cookie making and the kids just love spending time with their grandparents. We are counting down the days until they visit us again in February for Sam's third birthday.










Saturday, October 15, 2011

Playdate Fun

We have been hosting a lot of playdate lately and the boys have made the cutest crafts. Here are some of my favorites:

This one is supposed to be a handprint tree with fall colored leaves (tissue paper) but Sam lost interest in his leaves quickly, or else he was showing what the trees look like after a big wind storm- sparse!


We had a ghost playdate and ate vanilla "ghost" pudding and made these ghosts out of the kids' foot prints.





We also made these adorable skelleton lanterns using McDonald milk bottles, electrical tape and battery operated tea lights. They turned out so cute!




As cute as all of those crafts turned out, my favorite craft this month was making The Very Hungry Caterpillar out of the boys' handprints. I painted the boys palms red and two fingers purple to make the heads. Then I painted their palms green and their fingers brown (just to the first knuckle) to make the body segments and legs. This was Wyatt's favorite book when he was little, which makes me love these even more. I'll be hanging onto these for a while.




Monday, October 10, 2011

Pumpkin Hunting

We took the boys to "The Farm" for our annual pumpkin patch trip and went along with the cousins and Grandma. It was a fun time as always, despite Sammy's I-had-no-nap-today meltdown. The kids ran through the fields to find the perfect pumpkins and then we headed over to the petting zoo.











Wyatt loved these rabbits that had the softest pellets I've ever touched and he was so gentle with them.



Sam opted to view the animals from a distance but really like the cows.



Going to the pumpkin patch is one of my most favorite days of the year. I love my boys so much!