Halloween

Every year I hate carving pumpkins...  I am not a fan of the mess or the bugs they attract.  This year I found a project on Pinterest... decorating pumpkins with glow in the dark puff paint.  It was perfect!  No mess... minimal work.  Just fun and a 24 hour drying time!

On Saturday, we went by the South Portland Police Department's open house.  They had tours of their "spooky" station, face painting, a haunted jail cell, Touch-A-Truck, and a dog demonstration.  I had hoped to dress Kenzie up in Kaitlyn's old Scooby Doo costume, but it became apparent that Kenzie is a wee bit taller than Kaitlyn was...

We tried soooo hard to get Kenzie to look up, but she was having none of it!  This was the best we could do...

Kenzie thought we were torturing her.  She was not a fan of the Scooby hood.

I was shocked that Kaitlyn picked a spider of all things... perhaps she is not Kevin's child after all, haha!

And this was the point where Kenzie was done with the hood...

Touch-A-Truck!  Kenzie was much happier once that darn hood came off!  However, now you can see how small the costume was on her.  I'm such a bad Mommy!

Everyone loved the dog demonstration.  The officer forgot to take his watch off and Saber bit right through the band!

 Getting ready to sniff out some drugs...

After a quick trip for a new costume that actually fits...  Princess Ana (Frozen) made her debut Sunday at the annual Trunk-or-Treat at Kaitlyn's school.  In true Kenzie form, Princess Ana refused to wear her head piece.

Kaitlyn liked the Spooky Playground!

This was Kenzie's favorite car!

Kevin and I took Halloween off, so we were able to go to the Halloween parade at Kaitlyn's school.  This is Kaitlyn and her prayer partner, Andrew.

Pre- Trick or Treating photos.  Off course the princess would not look at me per usual.  She also decided to make things even more challenging by constantly pushing over the pumpkin and rolling it away from her.

Kaitlyn really had fun with these pictures!  She was also very adamant that she is Hermione... not Harry Potter!

Time to Trick-or-Treat!

Kenzie looks possessed, but she was actually smiling!

Last stop of the night, Trick-or-Treating at Mammy's.  Kaitlyn wanted Daddy to wear his "Griffyndor shirt" so bad!  She was thrilled when he obliged...

Kaitlyn

Just a few quick things to share that Kaitlyn is very proud of...

Every week Kaitlyn gets a list of spelling words and two "challenge" words which are extra credit.  A perfect score, including the challenge words is a 100++.  Last week was a review week.  The kids got to pick the words off of previous lists.  However, anyone who had perfect scores on all the tests so far didn't have to take the review test.  Instead, they got play time on the I-pads.  Kaitlyn was so excited to be one of only two kids that had all perfect tests.  This really was no small feat... some of her challenge words included deciduous and chrysalis.  Not gonna lie... I had to look up the definition of chrysalis!  She was so excited about this, she told me at least 3 times a day all week that she didn't have to take the test and was going to play on the I-pad!

Kaitlyn was also proud today when she got her ribbon and found out the results of her last cross country meet.  She had a new personal record...  1/2 mile in 5 minutes, 7 seconds! She shaved off 10 seconds from her previous best!

 

Columbus Day Weekend and Other Fall Fun

We took our annual Columbus Day Weekend trip to Presque Isle.  We really enjoyed spending time with family.  Kailyn was so exited to have Aunt Cassandra sleep over at the hotel with us one night.  We learned Kaitlyn takes after Mommy and is a total blanket hog. When we teased her about it, she said she was not a blanket hog... she had the blanket and Aunt Cassandra had the sheet! 

Of course we love doing the corn maze every year.  This year northern Maine got a ton of rain and the corn stalks were impressively tall. It was also very warm this year... 70 degrees!  Kenzie thought it was hilarious every time the wind blew the corn stalks.  She was fascinated by the corn. 

As many of you know, Kaitlyn ran cross country this year.  It has always been for the older grades, but this year the running club that organizes it opened it up to grades 1-5 as well.  1st and 2nd graders run 1/2 mile, 3rd and 4th graders ran 3/4 mile, and 5th graders ran 1 mile.  The kids practiced during lunch recess 2 days a week and then had 4 meets after school  at parks and other locations in neighboring towns.  Kaitlyn did great.  She was always one of the last kids in, but she kept going and ran the whole course and finished every time.  All her times were between 5 and 6 minutes. 

This past Wednesday was her last meet and it was at the beach!  The kids loved it!  It was beautiful weather and beautiful scenery.  Disclaimer...  I ripped some of the pictures off the school website!

We are starting to hit peak foliage up here, so we took our leaf picture this morning.  Kenzie is a little snot and pretty much refuses to ever look at the camera.  At least I have one kid who will smile and look at me on command!