halloween

mary lou and annie!!!

first trick-or-treat in tomahawk bluff...

adelyn's trunk-or-treat at preschool...

our trunk....

adelyn's class...

going through her loot....

halloween party with our friends!!!

carving pumpkins...

they drew their own faces this year...

elena's....

she named it "sad"....you're thinking "huh?"  no worries.  we thought the same.

adelyn's...

elena's school halloween parade...

reading her new halloween book from her teacher with her new witch finger...

trick-or-treat to family....nana and papa....

great grandpa john and great grandma lorraine...

great grandpa john and great grandma betty...

great grandpa bud and great grandma lil...

grandma...

great nona...

trick-or-teating with friends...

the farthest we ever went - about 4-5 blocks this year...

the after party...


mary lou and little orphan annie....

"Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night." ~Steve Almond

Haircuts

adelyn got a teeny weeny trim....sniff sniff....

but mostly we just pretended to cut her hair and curled it anyway... ;)

and elena got a trim too...

and a style...ooh la la

"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?" ~Lily Tomlin

starved rock

we took our usual fall hike out at starved rock to see the giant leaves and pretty fall colors...



















e got a phone call on daddy's phone while we were hiking...no joke. this is a true reaction. kinda speechless? we were too.

miss cool...







"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." ~John Burroughs

our kindergartner

adelyn is missing her big sis all day every day....

my little 5 year old is breezing through kindergarten!!

elena often brings home extra worksheets that they do in centers for adelyn to do...

one assignment with an interesting drawing...

of course when she gets home she is active and practicing her tumbling...

she has themed days at school once in awhile too....

elena writing some sentences this october right on the front stoop....lovely, aren't they?!

what miss e wrote on top of her assignment for school! nope elena...you do all your own work! goodness!!

"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers." ~Edgar W. Howe