October Clips

During the month of October we finally discovered the wonder of the children's library. Why have we never been there before?! It's fantastic!

We have gone to Tiny Tot Story time twice. It's only about 20 minutes long, but P loves it. I think it will be a great outing during the winter.

I think the deer must instinctively know when it's hunting season because they move into town.

I almost ran into these two on a walk. Had to scoop Dodger up so he wouldn't go all "small dog syndrome" on me and try and attack them.

My mom sent Pierscen some more books. I have been trying to build up my collection and my mom has volunteered to help in the effort. She sent us Go, Dog, Go! Are you my mother? and Put me in the Zoo. Some of my favorite books growing up. :)

One perk of that big storm was that as Ryan was going around helping people cut up their limbs, he was able to bring home lots of wood for burning (next year that is.)

We also got two cords of wood for a killer price. It is still considered green, so it will be for next year as well, but it was an amazing price... if we can just figure out where to put it all.

We did load up a bunch of it the wheelbarrow and took it around to the side of the house. P loved getting free ride back. He was giggling like crazy.

Dodger was happy with our placement of the wood because it gives me a great vantage point to creepily watch for the little dog that lives next door. Ha!

Just a few days ago P was playing in the backyard and I went to check on him. Where did I find him? On top of the wood pile. Yeah it scared me pretty bad. I rounded the corner and there he was smiling. He threw his hands up in the air and yelled, "Ta da!" Ahhh! So we will need to add a few pieces to make it less of a stair case. At least it's sturdy. Scary little adventurous child.

I also rearranged the front room from this:

To this:

Much better, right? I was getting really tired of Pierscen throwing everything behind the couch and piano. Then Dodger would jump behind the couch to retrieve whatever it was he needed and then whine cause he couldn't get out again. So annoying! P still throws stuff off the upper level, but at least it's not getting stuck. AND... it's so much more open and roomy! I thought the other arrangement was fun and different, but it was really cramped. Traditional is better in this case.

Super Saturday is coming up and this is the craft I was in charge of. Pretty cute, yeah? You could definitely spruce it up, but I think it's cute just as it is. I had hoped to sell some via some FB pages here, but there have been no bites. Oh well.

It's been a busy, but good month. I forgot to mention in the Halloween post that amazingly there was no snow. Last year the weather was incredible. But we were told that is really rare. This year wasn't as nice, but at least there wasn't any snow.

November... here we come! 

All Things Halloween

 I made a trip to Once Upon a Child at the end of September in hopes of finding a Halloween costume for P. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, but it turned out that my selection in costumes his size was pretty small as it was. However, when I came across this one - I knew this was it. :) 

A clown fish! No, he wasn't specifically Nemo since there is nothing particularly Nemo about it, but in the end that's what I told people he was. I just wanted it because he loves fish and I had never seen a fish costume before. He was really excited about trying it on and sported it for most of that evening.

Naturally, we wanted to visit the pumpkin patch for some fun pictures. P is obsessed with pumpkins right now which makes it even better. 

I am amazed that Ryan got a decent picture of him in this cut out board. He seemed kind of freaked out by it and even after I showed it how it worked he wanted nothing to do with it. Oh well.

 

We had a really great time. Following the pumpkin patch, we ate dinner and headed to the church to join Ryan for YM/YW pumpkin carving contest. P was pretty unconvinced of the fun of gutting a pumpkin. I couldn't convince him to put his hand in it.

He did help move a few seeds from my hand to the bowl, but after touching one or two, when I held out my hand to him, he would simply flick them into the bowl rather than try to pick them up. Whether he was grossed out by the feel or was just annoyed at how slippery they were, I couldn't quite decide.

A few days later we had our ward Trunk or Treat. I was proud of myself for doing at least a few decorations, but that pride disappeared the moment we got to the church. I hadn't stopped to think that it was going to be dark and you couldn't see my decorations at all. That... and there were several people who were REALLY into it that had lights, music, and fog machines. Kind of put my bats and spiders to shame... not that you could see them anyway. Hahaha.

For dinner they had potluck soup and pies. I brought my "No Fuss Potato Soup" which is pretty much awesome. 

Unfortunately P took a really short nap that day and was pretty dang tired, but he always perks up around other kids. He was thrilled at the idea of free candy, though it took a lot of convincing for him to leave the candy in the bucket. He just wanted to pull it right back out. The suckers especially. 

There were a few games going on inside, and P stopped by one to watch a few kids do a relay. At one point of the relay, the kids were supposed to put a candy corn on a spoon and crawl under a table and take it to the next kid and feed it to them without dropping it. P watched this, then went straight to the bag of candy corn and started helping himself. Cheater! Lol.

We had a great time. We all came home tired and happy and P went right to bed. 

The Wednesday before Halloween I went to a party hosted by the group that did the corn maze. We made little pumpkin crafts, played with toys, and ate some yummy Halloween treats.

Aren't people so creative?! Seriously... if I had brought treats, they would have been store bought cookies. Ha! The party was cute and I P had a great time running around with the other kids.

Halloween night we went to the mall. I had been told by many sources that it was going to be "crazy," "chaotic," and a "zoo." So I was definitely expecting the worst. And then I remembered... this is Wyoming.  

Granted, there were a lot of kids there. However, it was totally organized and pleasant. Everyone just walked in a nice line around the mall going store to store. Sometimes I have to remind myself that there are almost as many people in Utah Valley as there are in the entire state of Wyoming. So yeah... I don't think our definitions of chaos are same. However, that being said, I am growing more accustomed to the slower pace of things here, (much nicer pace I might add) so when I go home, I really do feel like things in Utah are chaotic. Haha. 

Anyway, Pierscen loved it. He made out like a bandit. Especially in the sucker department which is a favorite for the little guy, so there are no complaints there. 

He also had a great time learning to rope a calf. Hehe. I love it! I sent the picture below to my dad and he responded, "Only in Wyoming do they teach fish to throw a lasso." :)

We had a really great time. His pumpkin full of candy is tucked away out of sight. I think it will last us a while. Happy Halloween! Hope everyone else had a great time too!