Halloween Week! Part V

This one is my "nailed it" aspect of Halloween week.

This is what I was making, from Mel's Kitchen Café:
  

Aaaaannnnnd here was mine:

Nailed it!

 

Luckily, I took mine out of the oven about 15 minutes early right after I heard a loud pop, and it collapsed on top of the oven rather than in the oven.  That green skillet happened to be sitting on top of the oven and thankfully it was the perfect size for me to plop my collapsing pumpkin into.  Whew, a close one, I tell ya.  I will totally try this again in the future because it was so fun and novel, plus everybody really loved it! Can I tell you how rare it is for my boys to like a casserole?  I don't think its ever happened before.  

 

Halloween Week! Part IV

I did sign up Ollie for gymnastics!  This was only his second ever class, the Halloween week extravaganza!

Yes, that is Josh, a full grown man in a Spiderman costume teaching gymnastics. 

Ollie doing a jumping somersault.

Ollie doing a back flip.

The bounce house in which they did their lessons.

Learning about flips and somersaults on the trampoline.

It was also awards day.  We clearly did not get in at the beginning of the lessons, but Ollie is having fun and catching up quick!

 

Halloween Week! Part III

Pumpkin Time!

 

From Left to Right:

Ollie's polka dot pumpkin, Ashy baby's kitty, and Seth's jack-o-latern

 

(Some background on the polka dots...)

Me: Ollie what kind of face do you want on your pumpkin?

Ollie:  No!  I don't want a face!  I don't like faces!

Me: What??? You don't want anything on your pumpkin?  Do you want a candle in it?

Ollie: No, I don't want anything on it!  Yes, I still want a candle!!

Me: ..........ummmm, how about just a bunch of holes for the light to shine through?

Ollie:  Yay!) 



Halloween Week! Part II

Buckner Trunk or Treat!

Halloween Week! Part I

The Costumes!

Leonardo, the teeniest, most darling Kitty, Superman, and a Tired, Middle-Aged Woman (Hot, Young, Fit Woman was all sold out)

A Little Off the Sides

Do you know what is the nemesis of dreads? 
Carpet fibers.  And four year olds who spend 50% of their day log rolling. 
Another pro for getting hard wood, because we loved his locks and would totally do them again.

The before:

 

Ollie taking selfies during: 

 

And the after: 

Long hair or short, those eyes sparkle!

 

This weekend has been no fun at all.  I caught a cold.  The good news: so far it seems as if I'm the only one who has been sick.  The bad news: my teeth feel like they will rot out of my head.  Cough drops have been a huge necessity, albeit sipping 7-up throughout the day has felt like more of a luxury.  The only way to get back to sleep after waking up coughing my head off has been a cough drop, and in the morning I'm pretty sure my teeth resent me for it. 

Someone else right now has decided that the only way to get back to sleep is... well I'm not sure yet.  So far I've tried swaddling, white noise machine, and now the swing.  I'm hoping that all three will lull Ash back to dream land momentarily.  Baby Peanut is growing!  She currently has two little sleepers that fit, one rather goofy looking (the cow outfit), and the other I'd say is borderline hideous.  (mustard yellow, ruffles everywhere, including around her neck, polka dots) Not much to be done though, she has grown out of all her preemie clothes, except these two outfits and newborn clothes still dwarf her.  Last Friday she had a weight check and she had been with us 21 days and had gained 25 ounces, tipping the scales at 6lbs, 4 ounces. 

Being a preemie is hard work!  Even though she is just shy of two months old, she is still seems so unsure of everything.  Feedings are inconsistent, being awake is sometimes just too much for her little brain to process, her pacifier is sometimes friend, sometimes foe.  But, she is gaining and slowly but surely getting everything else figured out. 

Our best guess is that she will be with us for about one more month.  The plan is for her to join her big brother, who is already with a family in the process of adoption. 

Ollie and I (and Ash) have been going to BSF this year.  Being four is such a great age for learning and sharing!  I love hearing what Ollie is learning about and his take on the lesson.  It's a study on the life of Moses, and Ollie comes home and tells me about the Is-will-whites and how Pharaoh is pwobably wike Dark Vadaw.  Or I hear him playing in his room and getting all his ninja turtles and super heros assigned to their roles, "but whose gonna be Pharaoh?"   

I also signed Ollie up for a tumbling class, which starts tomorrow,  (Ash, fall back asleep soon, we've got a busy Monday ahead of us!) and he has been so excited and nervous!  Currently he says he won't do the class unless I do all of it with him too.  "No, I don't want you to watch, you have to do it too!"  I think he will have a blast once we get there.

Seth is becoming something of a little artist!  Pearl turned us on to a website, artforkidshub.com and it's been the cherry on top for him.  (Thanks Pearl!!!!) His old standby is TMNT, which I would guess he draws at least daily. 

He's also been listening to lots of seeds and his current favorite is Matt 28:19, "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, bad guys-ing them in the name of the Father and of the Son".  Ahh.  Makes me laugh.  :)

Okay, I've still got an awake baby on my hands, but my tired brain is out of anecdotes.  I'm headed to Hulu!


 

My Pumpkins, Through the Years

2011

 

2012 

 

2013 

 

2014