Raking Leaves

After having raked 35+ bags, I handed the rake over to Geoff and headed to Nicholas' birthday party with the kids.  The kids had a super great time at the party and were falling asleep in the car, but when we got home Geoff showed up the huge pile of leaves he created for us - it was fun :)

Play-doh flavored pizza

We made pizza on Friday night and Sam had a great time and Charlotte pulled out Play-doh to play along.

Fall

Sam was a great helper with bagging some leaves this Fall - he really likes his rake ("Momma it has eyes - how silly!") and was really getting into raking.

Halloween

I brought the kids to Jeannie & Mike's house for their first trick-or-treating and Charlie very quickly picked up on the concept of the holiday and kept on going back to their candy bowl and saying "thank you"  her trick-or-treat sounded closer to her "tickle tickle" but she did a great job.

We went out again this year with Kristy, Coulter and Quinn - and also got to meet their new baby Nash who was just 1 month old - so cute.  There was a ton of kids and people out, so we only needed to go up and down one street and the kids were tuckered out.  Charlie stayed out until very close to the end.

Toddler Party

This is what happens when Charlie is put down in her toddler bed for the night - the next morning looks like the remnants of a toddler rave.  Note that she was reading books in the dark on the chair ;)

Fall Photos

Some photos I took from Geoff's phone from this Fall:

Sam Pirate and Momma Pirate (don't let the fireman's' hat fool you) reading

Sam Pirate steering the ship at the park

So happy :) :)

Geoff and Charlotte on hay ride at Vin and Tim's birthday party at apple orchard in Stowe

Sam Pirate

Sam is very into being a pirate these days - we let him watch Peter Pan a few times and now his bed is a pirate ship, and he carries around his "booming" machine (which is a wooden flute) and his sword (which is a green piece of wood from a log cabin set) and wears a straw cowboy hat to complete his pirate get-up.

He says that we are a family of pirates and I am momma pirate, Geoff is Daddy pirate and Charlotte is baby pirate.   He has also commandeered Charlotte's plush toy kitten, which he calls his pirate cat :)

Every time we go to the park, all the play structures are pirates ships as well.   And his favorite books right now are all on the same topic ;)

Here is a picture from the museum today that Sam wanted Fer to send to me :)

He is getting into naming all his toys and "pets" and has the following pets currently.

1) Ozzie the the snake - which is a black piece of construction paper I cut into the shape of a snake
2) Stripper - his plastic toy whale
3) Lady & the Tramp - his "puppy" which is a wooden barrel loader from his train table
4) Science - Charlotte's plush toy cat
5) Pins and stick - his original plush toy cat  that we left at the lake a month or so ago, Sam says that the cat is very sad to be there alone, but we assure him Granddad visits and takes care of him on the weekends :)