Dalton's Racing Birthday Party

Here are some pictures from Dalton's birthday party last week.   I'm pretty sure he didn't notice that we couldn't get the candles to stay lit.  He had a good time.

Here's a bonus picture of me all pregnant.

Home Preschool: Halloween

Last week's home preschool theme was Halloween.  I made a felt jack-o-lantern puzzle just by cutting out some orange pumpkin shapes and some black facial features.  The pirate patch and the Mickey ears were Dalton's idea.

Apple with peanut butter and marshmallows is now Maggie's favorite after school snack.  She thought this Halloween snack was hilarious!

Both of the kids did this little mummy craft.  I cut a piece of black construction paper in half, and cut up some pieces of gauze leftover from when Maggie cracked her head open.  We used liquid glue to glue on googly eyes and pieces of gauze.  Maggie wanted to add a nose and I told her that mummies don't have noses.

We ordered some Halloween sticker scenes from Oriental Trading, so that was included in this week's home preschool. It looks like Maggie did all of this week's activities with us. Dalton played while she was in school, too.

I got the idea for these little ghost finger puppets from Serving Pink Lemonade.  I sewed them together and Maggie drew the faces.

I printed out a couple pages of this free Halloween pre-K printables pack.  It's pages 6-7 - he circled the different item, then I cut the paper into strips and he cut each Halloween item off the strips.

There are a few more Halloween ideas on my Home Preschool Pinterest board that we didn't get to. We also tried to make ghost window clings, but it didn't work with the hot glue, and apparently I have a billion glue sticks and no white school glue.

Riding the Great {Park} Pumpkin

On his way home from work, John noticed a jack-o-lantern face on the balloon at the Orange County Great Park, so we took the kids tonight.

Free carousel ride.

Love this picture of my happy family.

We saw a train pass by down below, all teeny and lit up.  Maggie thought the ferris wheel at the Spectrum was Disneyland.

Worth staying up late for some free family fun!   We also busted out the long-sleeves and pants for the kids.

September Misc.

Ok, Disneyland first.

On the monorail. I think Maggie is trying to keep her little friend from freaking out.

The Lego Store - the kids new favorite place at Disneyland.

King Maggie! Or not.

Dalton went from Junior Ranger to Senior Wilderness Explorer.

I am 7 1/2 months pregnant, in case you forgot.

I snuck in to take this picture of Maggie helping Dalton with the Look-and-Find, but she got me and pretended not to.  Dalton hasn't been sleeping well, hence the eye rub.

Happy Birthday to Me! I turned 31 this month, with little fanfare, but with free ice cream!

Caught this silly one of Maggie as she was opening the closet to get dressed.

Love! Dalton has to say goodbye to Maggie at school or he gets upset.  He is obsessed with the Lightning McQueen backpack, but I took it away and used it for an emergency kit. So mean.

Maggie Videos

It's kind of funny that this is what Maggie would do with her first video turn, because she still acts embarrassed when we laugh at the video of her dancing to Handy Manny.  She said she wanted to do exercises.

Here's a good video where Maggie talks about what she does at school.

And, she tells you all about triceratops, complete with a frill.

Dalton Videos

I haven't taken any videos of the kids in a long time.  Here are a few I took of Dalton today.  The cute parts are not where he's singing or saying what he's supposed to but where he laughs at himself ("hah! I said 'Eeyore is his friend!'") etc.  There's some random static on some of them.  It's the video camera - sorry.

Singing I am a Child of God (like Maggie).

Singing Winnie the Pooh (like Maggie).

Talking about some Disneyland rides (and easy subject to get my kids talking).

Telling us what he's going to be for Halloween (like Maggie).

Yet More Ouchie Show

You would think Dalton's head and the sidewalk would be better friends for all their meetings.