Thanksgiving Chapel

Every year the girls' school has a Thanksgiving Chapel.  And each year the kindergarten and first graders put on a Thanksgiving play, starring the pilgrims and the indians.

Last year Laine was a pilgrim, but this year she got to be an indian.

She did a great job with her speaking part, and they sounded great singing, "Toom, tum, tum, tum..." and pounding their drums.

So proud of my little performer.  Happy Thanksgiving!

Cole in action

Here's a few shots of Cole, doing his thing...

Helping carry the backpack like a big boy.

Watching the tree trimming truck outside his window.

Chillin' on the couch with his Winnie-the-Pooh hat.

Such cuteness!

Happy Halloween!

Laine wanted to be an owl for Halloween.  Not sure where she got the idea, but I was fine with it, as long as she helped make her costume.

So she and Penny found a mask cut-out online and glued it to cardboard and taped it to some old glasses with the lenses removed.  Then, entirely on her own, she created an owl trick-or-treating bag, using real bird feathers that we had collected earlier this year.  I love her creativity!

Here's everyone all dressed up for the big night - owl, monkey, fire fighter.

We joined the Reels and went in their neighborhood, which is much more trick-or-treater friendly than ours :-)

Cole and Caroline - two little monkeys!

Pumpkin Carving

A busy couple weeks for our family with birthdays and Halloween back to back to back - here's the pumpkin carving process...

Scooping out the guts (look at Mead's face!)

Starting to carve

The finished product: big hungry pumpkin eating tiny little pumpkin!

Nice work, Penny.