Pumpkin Carving with Carlee

Carlee's pre-school class did pumpking carving in class. All the parents were invited and we had to bring a pumpkin. The kids had to draw the face using shapes and the parents had to carve them. It was interesting trying to carve Carlee's. She drew eyes, eye brows and eye lashes then a nose and a mouth. Needless to say it only had eyes...mom's not very good at carving difficult patterns! We read spooky stories, had treats, made jack-o-lantern paper bag puppets and sang songs. It was really fun spending the morning with Carlee.

Halloween Parties

We went to 3 different Halloween parties in 2 days! We went to my dads Real Estate office for trick-o-treating, a Haunted House and potluck dinner. Here are a few pictures of Carlee and her cousin Audrey and Aunt Nicole with Olivia. Next we went to the daycare Carnival of my niece, Sara. That was a lot of fun with games like, Cake Walk, Ring Toss, Arts & Crafts, decorate your own pumpkin, Pin the nose on the Jack-o-lantern and more food! We had such a great time with everyone. Thanks for inviting us along! The third party was a pumpkin carving and potluck dinner at some friends house who we know from the Fire Department. Do you think I remembered to take any pictures?? NO, I was busy talking of course!

Schnepf Farms

We went to Schnepf Farms last weekend with the kids. We hadn't been since Carlee was a baby and let me just say...this time it was a lot more fun! Mike's brother, Scott and his wife Lindsay and our niece, Sara, also went. We had a great time and the kids were worn out. They did rides, ate food, picked pumpkins and just ran around.

Zoo

We took Logan, Carlee and our niece, Sara, to the zoo a couple weeks ago. It was really fun. Sara is 18 mos. and starting to recognize animals and say their names. When you would ask her what animal it was she would tell you and do the sound the animal makes. She was so funny! This is always one of our favorite things to do with the kids.

Couple more pics...

Here are a couple more cute pictures of Carlee from Dance class.

Sometime I'll have to sneak in and take a couple while she's actually doing something!

FYI...

Thanks to everyone who has been checking on Mike. He is healing very well and is now in the "going stir crazy" faze of his recovery. He is 6 weeks post-op. If all goes well he'll be back on shift after Christmas. He was a little perturbed that I posted about his ACL injury/surgery and asked that I remove it from the blog. So, me being the nice wife that I am, removed it under much duress and much, much arguing. However, I just wanted to give an update to let everyone know he's getting better everyday!

Dance

Carlee started dance this week at Jeanne's School of Dance. SHE LOVES IT! What little girl wouldn't, right? She is in the Beginning Combo class. 25 minutes of tap, 25 minutes of ballet and 10 minutes of tumbling. She goes to class on Mondays. What do you think her first question is on Tuesday mornings? "Mom, how many more days until I get to go to dance again?" Boy does it make for a long week! I get to hear her "practice" everyday too..."shuffle, shuffle, toe-back", she's absolutely adorable! I'm glad she is having a good time and getting to do something of "her own".