Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Halloween 2016

Emmalyn tried pull ups for the first time!

Maxwell drew this to enter into the Reflections Contest at school

Note his description of what he drew.  :)  What a sweet boy.

We took the kids to the annual Halloween festival at Brittany's church


Waiting FOREVER to go on one ride


Wasn't sure if the kids would end up going but they all did.  Emmalyn and Maxwell sat together and Landen sat behind them.  They had fun.  Whew!




They wanted to get their face painted but the line was super long so instead we waited in a sort of long line to get glitter tattoos.





They had fun playing games

Emmalyn was the only one who wanted to do the petting zoo.


Snow cones

The group all had fun

HALLOWEEN!!!!! Ready for Trick or Treating!
Blue Ninja and Cowboy Cheerleader




Our first stop is always the Rays


Trying to take a family pic


Avery was sweet and walked Emmalyn to the neighborhood party

A bunch of the neighborhood kids


She did it all on her own this year and did an awesome job!!!

Maxwell and Peter moved much quicker and ended up going on ahead without us.



Emmalyn and Logan from next door

Checking back in at the Rays on the way home.  She did not want to go in!


Our pumpkins



Trying some candy - one piece tonight


Maxwell wanted to go back outside so I let him handout some candy but there weren't very many trick or treaters.  He was calling to people trying to get them to come over.


Halloween success!!

Sunday, August 6, 2017

Dentist, Halloween Fun, and Neon Run

Emmalyn, Maxwell, and I all had dentist appts.  I checked Maxwell out of school early and then Brittany brought Emmalyn a little later.

Maxwell getting his first x-rays

He was nervous.  He did help by holding "mr slurpee" but he kept doing this nervous coughing thing.

Emmalyn got to see Maxwell go a little bit.

Maxwell has some adult teeth coming in.  The dentist doesn't think he will lose any baby teeth though until he is 6.

While I went, they were pretty well behaved.  It was super stressful to me though because I'm laying there with my mouth open, not really able to respond or prompt/direct them, etc.  Thank goodness they are good kids!

After watching Maxwell and I, Emmlyn was comfortable and ready to go.  She's been excited about this!


Emmalyn just had a quick teeth check by the dentist - no cleaning this time.

After the dentist, I took the kids to my work for the annual kids trick-or-treating

Maxwell and Donna

They came home with a ton of candy

My blue ninja and little Asian girl


She loved the section that was decorated like Halloween

He was wiped out and fell asleep on the way home.

Woke up for a huge yawn..

...and then back to sleep


The stuff Maxwell did on my board in my office.  Definitely not Kinder Curriculum level here.

Maxwell's elementary did a Neon Run fundraiser that I was able to attend.

Emmalyn came with Brittany.  She loves her "flag shirt" and would wear it every day if she could.

Getting the "rules"

Starting out strong!  Even when the other kids were walking.  He wore two wrist bands to school today but let one of his friends wear one.

Still running!

One of the neighborhood ladies was running it and kindly gave Emmalyn her own shirt.

Landen running

Hot, tired, yet still so focused!

Her stash she brought with her is spread all over.

The  kids got a few breaks to get a drink and dance a little.  It helped to break it up rather than having them run for 45 minutes or so straight (which would never work with Kinder kids!)

I don't know the kid on the left, Maxwell, Julien, and Landen

During one of the dance breaks

All the kids and the teachers

The school is largely Indian so my little pale boy with glasses is easy to spot in a crowd.

Taking a picture with her fake phone

Still trying to go potty on the potty every once in awhile.  She was successful this time.

We swam next door (for maybe the last time this season)  the kids braved both the hot tub and the pool.


Mary Ann brought out the skeletons from the Halloween decorations for the kids to play with.

Maxwell jumping from the rock

HAHA!  Maxwell put his goggles on his skeleton.

Emmalyn hugging the alien skeleton was just creepy but they all had a lot of fun.

We finished the night off with roasting marshmallows and some smores.  I think this is the first time my kids have ever roasted marshmallows.




sugar happy

Maxwell's School Picture.  I love it.  It's not his genuine smile but it sure the smile he puts on whenever you ask him to smile so in that way, it's genuine Maxwell.

The picture Maxwell drew at school.  I was impressed with the colors and detail of the water park.  This is certainly an improvement for him.  

Wearing her Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader costume to Kindermusik

waiting for her sticker

Class picture
Everly, the twins, Emmalyn, Max, Luca, and Brennan

We love Mrs. Carolyn!

The YMCA next to Kindermusik was have a festival thing so Emmalyn and I checked it out.  She got her face painted.


She loved the obstacle course

She got quite a few goodies including a free t-shirt!

Wahoo - Peter's car key arrived from California.  Now we have two keys again.

Blue Ninja Maxwell at his Kindermusik class.


Maxwell's class

They were still doing the pumpkin patch at the church Kindermusik is held in, so I let Maxwell get his face painted there since Emmalyn came home with her face painted.  This is the first time that I can ever remember Maxwell REALLY wanting to get his face painted.  He has always not been interested in it.  He was super excited about getting a smiley face.


We played some of the games.


She found some lotion and got it all over herself


She loved looking at her face paint in the mirror.

We carved pumpkins.  This was the first time Maxwell has helped scraped a pumpkin.  He was, naturally, disgusted but did a good job.  A lot of firsts today!



He's making the same face as his pumpkin.