Norah and Clark helped us deck out the house for Halloween, inside and out. They each had very strong opinions on where everything should go, and each night at dinner they have to turn on the Halloween village with all it's spooky sounds and lights (we love Halloween).
For an entire afternoon, we jumped in the tallest heaps of leaves and screamed the loudest kinds of giggles. If we hadn't gotten so hungry, we could have stayed out there forever throwing leaves on each other and piling them all back up again!
I got the kids all hyped up about making caramel apples. We dug through the halloween candy and crushed up some good stuff to sprinkle on top. The kids helped shove the sticks into the apples and waited patiently at the table waiting for the caramel to heat up, sneaking sprinkles when I wasn't looking. We dipped the apples, sprinkled them up and put them in the fridge to save for after dinner. When it was finally time, time to eat these delicious treats we had so much fun making... Clark took a big excited bite. He immediately stopped. His mouth hung open and drool oozed out. Tears began to form. He hated them!! You could see the disappointment in his face, poor guy :( So daddy gave him some ice cream while we all ate the apples. All is right in the world when there is ice cream.
Clark is telling Norah here that they should try one right now, and Norah is telling him that they have to wait until after dinner :)
We went on a spooky costumed "frolley" (trolley) ride where an author read one of his books to the kids who were all dressed up in their costumes. After the book was over he drew pictures of the characters with help from the kids on how to do it. I was so proud of Norah for sitting separate from us - up front with all the other kids! Clark even made his way up there. He would turn to the other kids, and with a tilt of his head and a touch of their shoulder, he would tell them what was being drawn, as if to say "Isn't that awesome!?". As if that wasn't enough trolley for us, on another day we took that same trolley to Farmer Ken's "pumpkin patch" too!
Scary Faces!
"Roar" Face
Clark just kept picking up pumpkins to move them to a different spot.
Last, but not least, we spent the entire morning at the neighborhood hay day. We walked through all the shops trick or treating. The book store had a chocolate milk fountain and cake, and there were llamas at the hardware store!! Then we went on a hay ride and ate pizza while a band played some indie rock type stuff. Norah was mesmerized by the three girls singing in the band. She talked about them for the entire day, telling us that she loved them so much and wanted to know if she could see them again! This girl LOVES to sing :)
Woody & Jesse!
Llamas at the hardware store
It took Clark a bit to work up the courage to get on
Hay Ride!
Daddy says Norah carved this all by herself - I did see her carve the eyes, but that mouth!? Wow.
Clark had a little help with his :)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Love ~ Renee
