Trick or Treat

Our town has trick or treat on Sunday from 3:30-5:30pm, not exactly the Halloween I remember, but fun none the less.  Will and I carved our pumpkins this morning in the basement to lessen Momma's mess freak out.  This was William's first time carving pumpkins and we had fun.

Here is Will's "I can't believe you are dressing me up when I don't want to" face.  It took a lot of convincing to get him into a costume that was regular clothes with accessories.  I think he has Adam's dislike of Halloween.  I on the other hand love dressing up and so love Halloween, though it has been 3 years since I dressed up, handing out candy doesn't seem to justify it.

On the return to home with candy William decided he enjoyed trick or treating, but refused to say "trick or treat" at any of the houses, but did thank them all for the candy.  What a goof.

On the other hand he LOVED handing out candy to the kids who came to the door.  I got a stern lecture on how it was his job and I wasn't to help.  Silly little man!

Happy Halloween, have fun trick or treating to those who have yet to partake!

More Grandparents!

I picked up Grandma Mc from the train last Sunday and she kept busy making cookies, cupcakes and sewing for the week.  We had a ton of rain around here the last week, but managed to get outside one evening to rake up the leaves. 

 After raking William wanted to show off his big boy bike skills and surprised me by wanting to go all the way around the block, and he stayed on the bike the whole time, good job buddy!

 Making spaceships with Grandma (they are an elephant cut out with a blob on top, magically they become spaceships when your squash them together!

And we managed to make it to the Little Farmer for apples and pumpkins, it was crazy busy there with dog weekend.  Lots of dressed up dogs barking, roaming and sniffing.  We saw one Great Dane that was as tall as William! We headed to the play area as they dogs weren't allowed in there.  William had great fun climbing on the hay bales, hanging out in the corn tepee and climbing to the top of the tires all by himself.  We tried the tricycles, but they were too caked with mud.

 Nice group shot with G&G Mc before church.

After church William wanted to take our pictures, here is the best one, he gets a little trigger happy and takes about 5 pictures at a time, good thing for digital!

So now our house is quiet (well at least until little man wakes up from his nap), no guests expected for three weeks.  Then we will be welcoming both Grandparents back and our friends to celebrate William's third birthday.  My how the time has flown!

Grandparents Visit

Grandma and Grandpa S came out for a visit and we had fun despite the rainy weekend.  We had hoped to make it to the apple orchard, but it was just too wet.  So we will have to save that for Grandpa and Grandma Mc's visit this weekend.  We pick up Grandma Mc from the train today and she will stay the week with us, sewing, baking and playing with William.

We headed to the Airplane museum to run around, push buttons and pull levers.  

William has a funny way of correcting us right now, if we say something wrong he says "Well actually...  I have been corrected a lot lately if I call something mine.  Will says "Well actually that is mine".  So apparently I don't own much in this house, but William does. 

We brought some of Will's outside toys, police car, tricycle, mower, etc. into the basement and he is having a blast riding around on his tricycle.  Usually I get commanded to ride the stationary bike while he is riding and he does a thorough comparison between our bikes.  Mine doesn't have wheels, his does, etc.

Now the brooms are out and being swung around pretty high, gotta go make sure nothing gets hit.  Have a good weekend!

Bouncing Around

I made my usual weekend list of things to do, and though I got off to a rough start, I managed to get them all done, some with a little help from William.  This evening we raked and he was a surprisingly good helper.  Once pointed in the right direction he raked for all he was worth.  Then there was some fun walking and plopping down in the leaf pile.  It was soft and warm in there he told me.

William loves to jump around on his jumping ball, pretty common to see him hop on by while dinner is in the works.

Adam and I got a rare chance to do some shopping without an almost 3 year old to keep track of.  We dropped William off at his former teacher Lisa's house after nap.  It was a nice chance for Adam and I to chat, shop and eat.  William had a fun time sweeping Lisa's floor, taking a walk to look at the Halloween decorations (the ghosts down the street are scary according to William), and learned how to say "Shush" to Lisa's dog Carl when he barked.  At first we though Will was calling him Cow, but checked on it, because Cow seems like a pretty funny name for a dog.

I learned that pancakes can only be made in the presence of Grandma's and Grandpa's.  I suggested them for breakfast this morning and got told that we could only have them at Grandpa and Grandma's cabin, he then agreed that we could have them at their house too.  But I could not make them at our house.  When asked if Grandpa could make them at our house I found out that was also allowed.  So there apparently is a correlation:  pancakes can only be made in the presence of Grandma and Grandpa, who knew!

We are looking forward to Grandma and Grandpa S visiting this week and Grandma Mc next week!  So maybe Momma can have some pancakes?