Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Making Faces

The day after visiting the pumpkin patch we all found
time to settle in and carve our pumpkins.

Jie Jie and Josie hard at work on the kitchen floor.

I cut into Clara Rose's pumpkin for a big surprise . . .

Bugs.

Yuck!

We moved her pumpkin event outside.

She was quite excited to have the creepiest
pumpkin for Halloween.


Meanwhile, Jieg and Josie worked on their pumpkins.

Josie drew a happy face on her pumpkin
for Wim to carve out.

Jieg spent quite a bit of time on hers--
being the artistic one.
She did a really great job!

Who can recognize this character?

Monday, October 22, 2012

Pumpkin Patch

We had fun time at the pumpkin patch this weekend.

It was an unusually warm day, but a bit muddy from rain the day before.

Gabrielle and Josie were off, each in search of
their own perfect Halloween pumpkin.

Clara Rose needed some big assistance with her chosen pumpkin. 

Josie prefers a pumpkin she can handle all on her own. 

This pumpkin patch never looked sweeter! 

Everyone was feeling very pleased with
their finds . . . and warmth of the day. 

It was such a nice day to be out in a pumpkin patch. 

The girls enjoyed a ride on a little tractor train. 


Of course we took some time feed the Llama and donkey. 
Nothing brings on the suburban giggles quite like feeding livestock! 

Friday, October 19, 2012

Reading

We are avidly sounding out words and learning to read.

Josie phonetically sounding out letters for 'water':
"W_ a_t_?e?_r"

"Mom! What is that?"

Me: "You are doing it right, sound it out again."

Josie: "W_a_t_r"
Water!
Me: "yes, that is right, water!"

Josie: "Mom! There is a slient 'e' in the middle of the word water!
That is stupid!"

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Jack's Back

Last night the girl's and I made our annual trek to the Jack-o-Lantern spectacular!
 Rightfully named, because every year it is spectacular!

The last couple years we have gone during the week because the lines on
the weekend are horrendous!
What a big treat to be out at night,
on a school night,
looking at thousands of jack-o-lanterns.

5000 Jack-o-Lanterns! 

I love the changes in Clara Rose's facial expressions
as we made our way through the pumpkin forest. 

There are your somewhat typical jack-o-lantern carvings--
in that they have a face, most more intricately designed than
I could manage even with a stencil!

Others are carvings of people, scenes from movies, animals, etc.

This year's theme is "all the worlds a stage"

So lots of movie stuff.

This was pretty cool-- the tornado from the Wizard of Oz. 


I think this one is a take on the cookie monster. 

There were lots of creepy faced carvings
this year, which I thought were really cool. 

An all time favorite movie for me! 


Clara Rose feeling a little pumpkin-shock. 

All time faves of the girls! 

If you look closely,
Sponge Bob and Patrick are being eaten
by the pumpkin. 



This picture doesn't come close to doing justice!

The pumpkin is about the size of a large
wooden office desk.

The carving is the scene from the
Titanic, when half the boat was sunk. 

Josie, "Hey! Look at that weird monster! He doesn't have eyes or a nose.
Is he crawling out of the toilet?"

Clara Rose, "Toilet! YUCK!"

The big finale- lots and lots of pumpkins
at a big laughing tree.

Think, the laughing music from the song,
"they are coming to take me away, Ha ha." 


You can barely make out the girls silhouette
in this shot. 

With the flash! 

Clara Rose's face says it all . . .
We are in for one spooktacular Halloween!

Friday, October 12, 2012

Fried-burg Fair Part 2

After the crazy rides we settled down a bit
for some of the finer parts of the fair.

One area had some really sparkly gypsy wagons.

Alpacas and Llamas
are sure to bring smiles to everyone face. 



Clara Rose was very excited
to see baby chickens hatching out
of the eggs. 

This fluffy chicken had Josie giggling. 

Wim next to a winner . . .
A Rhode Island Red of course!

Notice the goose below giving him the bird-eye. 

Silly photo-ops. 


More animal houses . . .

BUNNIES! 

SHEEP! 

Mini horses! 

It was wonderful (long) day at the fair.

Everyone was happy to spend our last night
in NH relaxing with a movie and
snacking on cotton candy.