We’ve been VERY busy this week! Scroll down to see everything we did!!!
I read about bugs while I sat on the big boy potty…
I pretended to be Picasso…during his pensive blue period…
while I decorated birthday presents for two of my cousins.
I spent hours building the best car ever with my magnetic blocks…
AND took the time to appreciate my work!!! Great job, Nolan!!!
And then…one morning we looked outside and noticed that there was frost on our cranberries…so, we decided it must be time…
to put up our Christmas tree!!!
Yep…I said Christmas tree!!! Mama got a head start while I was taking my nap and that’s a good thing because I don’t have a lot of patience right now and this is one really full bucket of ornaments!!!
Do we really have to do this one at a time?
Surely there is a faster way!
Uh, oh. I have no idea where I should put this one. This is harder than I thought! I think I felt that way last year and the year before too… (see below)
Oh, yeah. Definitely a complicated job!
I know…we just needed some festive music to keep us going. Mama says this decoration is a candle holder, but I swear it’s really a bugle.
I think it might even be prettier from the bottom up! Have a great week and don’t forget to buy your turkey (or tofurky) early!!!
Last Monday afternoon Mama and I put up the remaining Halloween deocrations. This poor ghost is about to burn more calories than ever before—it’s WINDY!!!
Aunt Robyn came over too. She and I wanted to carve a pumpkin together (Mama is too chicken to get her hands diry!)…
but I think she looks a little too excited holding that really big knife!!! (Do I need insurance?)
Oh! She was just cutting the top off! 
Yeah, Mama might be right. This is a pretty gooey job.
Cool! I’ve never seen inside a real pumpkin before. Well, at least not that I remember. (Will this thing turn into a pumpkin pie when we’re done?)
A splash of blue for the hair…a little brown for the nose and eyes and of course some red for the cheeks and mouth–drawing on the pumpkin was the best part!
Now…where’s the pumpkin pie?
Well, apparently there is no pumpkin pie. However, we do have a really cool cat Jack-o-Lantern…
that glows in the dark!
Halloween morning I went to visit (and trick-or-treat some) at Aunt Robyn’s work. She was dressed like Dora the Eplorer!! I totally recognized her voice, but I wasn’t sure about looking at her.
Then after dinner Mama, Papa and I along with Heather and Kyle went trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. At first, I wasn’t sure what we were doing. 
But then I saw the play-doh and chocolate at our neighbor’s house…and we were off! (Papa even gave me a chocolate bite when Mama wasn’t looking! Yum!) Let’s go to the next house!!!
We saw lots of really cool costumes….including a traveling group of about 6-7 witches! This house had a mini-haunted house set up in their drive-way and garage. It was a little creepy, but the big kids were nice and didn’t jump out at us, plus they gave us chocolate!