October Trees

All through the month of October, the kids spend most of their time in our neighbor's yard. They have a nice tree in the front with plenty of leaves to play in.

Amy has 2 girls around the same age as my kids. Amy and I actually went to high school together one year!

Her oldest daughter, Ashlynn is in Chase's class at school this year, and Addison is about a year and a half younger than Tyler.

They aren't home half the time my boys go over there with their rakes, but they don't mind.

Camrey never wants to miss out on the fun either! She wants to be where the boys are!

And on this day, The little girl across the street came to play too. Her name is Kayla (she has a pink shirt and is holding a rake with her back turned). Her 20 yr old brother started his own lawn care business and mows our lawn for us some times!

Tyler and the bus.

As I have mentioned before, my little preschooler Tyler rides the bus to school 4 days a week. This has been a great blessing for me. One less trip to the school a day, and it allows Camrey go down for a nap just before Tyler catches the bus. I put her down and 30 min. later walk him to the end of the road!
Now that it is cold outside we sit in the car and wait, but these pictures were taken a month or so ago when it was still warm. He rides his bike to the corner, then he likes to climb in the tree is someones yard (hope they don't mind), and we pretend to play hide and seek.

Our new game is naming the colors and types of cars that drive by while we wait for the bus.

Tyler doesn't like loud noises so he plugs his ears when the bus pull up.

He seems so little on that big bus! Only preschoolers have to be buckled in on a bus!

Halloween (October 31)

What do you do on a snow day when school's are closed... Catch up on blogging while the kids play in the morning!

Camrey's hair was just long enough to pull back into a Tinker Bell pony-tail! I found this costume at Other Mother's for $7!! and the shoes for about $3, (Kmart had them for $10).

I also found a yellow "Belle" dress for $6 and couldn't pass it up! They had Snow White, Cinderella, but I exercised restraint and only bought the two, (she can be Belle next year!) Camrey loves to dress up especially in Belle's dress! She's such a girl.

Tyler, of course, was so excited to see a Mario costume! He wore it every day for about a week after we got it. I finally had to hide it until Halloween, he was starting to wear it out!

Chase wants to be a fireman when he grows up! The first costume we got was a plastic coat with an ax from Walmart, which ripped within a few days. So I returned it and got this one from Kmart. No ax, but it lasted longer.

Chase begged me to carve a pumpkin, so one morning right before we had to leave for school I hollowed one out for him. I had been promising him for days, and there hasn't been any time in the evenings, so I did it before school.

We carved out the face when he got home later that day!

We did a Trunk-or-Treat on Saturday the 30th, and a short Trick or Treat on Sunday to the people on our street and some "home teaching" families. The kids had fun and got plenty of candy!