Halloween

 Halloween was a little different this year. As the kids age they seem to outgrow certain activities and Wesley has aged out of Halloween. He opted to hang out with Alex, who lives in town, and give out candy to the youngsters. They had a fun time with lots of food and candy so I don't think he felt like he was missing out on anything. 

Greta on the other hand loves Halloween more than any other holiday. She starts decorating in September and completely soaks up the fun of this time of the year. I don't tend to decorate for Halloween so Greta made sure to decorate her room fully. 

We did go trick or treating with Jessica like normal and can't see that stopping anytime soon. Greta said she'll go trick or treating forever.....we'll see. 

They insisted on carving pumpkins this year. It was hard to find any, I had to go to several stores and finally found some at the feed store. It's nice because they are at an age where I just toss some carving kits on the table and say "have fun!". Older kids are so much easier than young ones! 

No idea what Wesley carved, something from YouTube perhaps?

This and That

Greta's favorite class is art. They have been doing some really fun projects in class. Latest project was for them to make a ceramic pumpkin. Everyone did these cute little orange pumpkins. Greta wanted to make a rotten jack-o-lantern. I think it turned out pretty cool.

These kids crack me up. They sat in front of a mirror and perfected the "angry face". It's harder than you think to make your smile turn upside down intentionally. Greta perfected it several years ago (perhaps unintentionally) and Wesley figured it out recently.

Do you know what "shark teeth" are in humans? It's when your adult teeth come in above your baby teeth and you end up with two rows of teeth. Poor Greta had six adult teeth coming in above the baby teeth. It was painful to eat and the dentist said she'd be happy to remove the pesky baby teeth. So that's what they did. Poor kid!

 

 

The middle school has teamed up with the public library to offer fun events for the kids once a month. This months project was to decorate a wooden pumpkin. They had cute cutouts and stencils to decorate your pumpkin but Greta had a more gruesome idea. Blood splatters and an eye ball hanging out were painted on their pumpkin. Oh and can't forget about the brains. lol  

 

 

The fall parade proceeded even though it was raining and Wesley got to walk alongside the float for the high school play The Addams Family that he was playing in.