Reading a very ratty loved copy of brown bear brown bear....I guess tattered doesn't really matter when you can't read the words right? And while Hannah had a great birthday, complete with not one, but TWO mylar balloons...Little C did not have the best day. In fact...Im going to go ahead and say that it was the worst day (sartorially at least...which for Caitlin is pretty much everything) of her life. Yesterday she had to dress up as...A SCARECROW. For those of you who know Caitlin know that she is...shall we say...into, clothes. She likes everything to be just so, and while her choices are not always conventional (or even matching) she likes it a particular way. Evidently having straw (that was picked up from an empty parking lot hahaha) sticking out of your oversized, made for a boy, flannel shirt doesn't cut it.
I know you are not going to believe this, but this outfit took me at LEAST three hours to make...and by gosh the girl was going to wear it! You can see how she feels about it though. Isn't she the cutest little scarecrow you ever did see? So, she did end up going to school...and being the concerned parent I was, I decided to check in with her to see how she was doing as a scarecrow at school...so I went to have lunch with her. I almost didn't recognize her because she had shed the shirt (she wore a butterfly shirt under it) and had made an attempt at rubbing the freckles off. Little stinker.
Anyway, as further evidence of fall...we have put up our fall wreath, (thanks Granny) and carved the pumpkin:
Of course Pea thinks those round orange things are balls...her second favorite kind of toy...and keeps trying to pull them off. Lets have a close up:
Guilty! She knows shes not supposed to touch them.
Matthew really seems to love the fall...he got a webkinz bat and his very own little pumpkin which he likes to carry around and decorate the house with. He also likes to put it in his play house:
Which is cute and all, but what it really means is that mommy has to go around the house searching for this tiny little pumpkin right before bedtime when Matthew can't remember that he put it "in the back of daddys truck so it could go for a ride". Good times.
Chassie also loves the fall..she has resumed her most favorite-est activity..chasing the leaves as they fall. When she gets tired of this, she enjoys the bounty from the nearby tennis courts:
And Pea..in her new jacket: ('Hannah in the 'hood', if you will...)
I really should be studying/writing a paper/reading chapters right now, so Ive gotta run, but Im going to leave you with one more of C the Scarecrow: (in her best, "If I Only Had a Brain" pose)
Y'all have a happy Halloween!