Saturday, November 6, 2010

Trick or Treating

We had quite a group for trick or treating this year. It was a blast. This picture was at the end of the adventure, so we had lost a few families by this point (Lenssens and McEachrans)The chicks were quite happy to ride together for their trick or treating experience. This is Zeke and Liv, in case it is hard to tell through the chick costume.

Zachary wanted to get in on the chicken fun as well. He ended up coming upstairs the next morning (in his house) covered in chicken pox... So far, none of the other kiddos have gotten it, but we'll see what happens.

Halloween Costumes

We had some great costumes this year. Lizzy was a princess, Jojo a lion and Zeke a chick.
Eric was a Scotsman. The theme for reformation day this year was the Scottish Reformation, so Eric got to wear a kilt. It shows off his legs.

Shoes

We've been having trouble keeping track of our shoes lately. Any idea why? This is such a cute stage, even though we have to search for our shoes 10 times per day.

Puzzles

Jojo loves puzzles right now (so does Zeke actually). Jojo can put together this whole puzzle almost by himself . Once I get the border put together, he barely needs any help with the middle!

Pumpkin Fun

We headed to the pumpkin patch one Sunday afternoon.

The plan was to get our pumpkins, come home, and carve them. It went very well, except that the pumpkin patch was basically out of pumpkins - apparentely you need to go pumpkin hunting before the weekend before Halloween. So we found the only 2 pumpkins left that didn't have some rotton spot on them. Hence, the green pumpkin, which we all ended up loving. Checking out the pumpkins innards. Mr. Pumpkin can now see!

Yipee - he can smell and eat too!

Lizzy's Lost Tooth

Lizzy came running into our room at 3:04 am, to be precise, saying, "I 'loosed' my tooth. It was in my mouth and I thought I had a piece of candy to eat, but then I realized it wasn't candy, it was my tooth." She has now been drawing pictures of what she thinks the tooth fairy looks like all day. Apparentely the tooth fairy's outfit is made out of leaves... Zeke and Jojo are never ones to miss a photo opp, so when the camera comes out, they come running. Here we have Zeke and his guitar and Jojo eating a piece of Halloween candy.

Friday, September 24, 2010

First Day of School

Lizzy was very excited for the first day of first grade! When I came down to get breakfast ready, Lizzy and Jojo were already up and spending some quality time together before Lizzy left for school.Zeke didn't realize what was about to happen.Our sweet girl headed to school.Jojo looks a little concerned - he wasn't sure he wanted Lizzy to go to school.
The classroom - everyone was excited! Daddy's first day of school - its difficult to take a picture of someone who is running away from the camera, but he finally stopped for a split second.
Jojo and Zeke had bonding time over blocks while Lizzy was away.
We then cut Zeke's hair. His first shave. It was desperately needed, you will notice from previous pictures. This is not something I usually undertake by myself, but I couldn't stand it anymore. Zeke did great - he sat still for almost the whole time and with a little distraction at the end, we were able to finish! Yipee - what handsome little boys!