How do you carve pumpkins with two three year olds without getting slimy or making a mess in your house? You go to Trader Joes and get a FREE pre gutted pumpkin and give the kids dull carving knives.
I did most of it, but Rachel carved this one spot for about 5 minutes. She would NOT let me take the knife from her
The one and only time she has gotten her face painted, and the guy had to have a skeleton mask on. Great.
Today was our kids' last day of nursery at church. Starting in January, they will officially be in the Sunbeam class. (I know--how did that happen?) So today, they had a little graduation. And yes, I cried the instant I saw them.
"Okay, I'll wear this and I'll go to this thing, but I don't have to be happy about it."
"I'll do anything for a sunbeam cookie"
"Yes, I'm still wearing this."
Adam gets his certificate from the Bishop
"Oh, finally someone gave me something I can play with"
I have shy kids, but I'm so glad that I have the only kid who will sing. We could hear Adam and one other kid while the rest stared blankly during their performance
We did a lot of Halloween stuff this year.I've already lost track of most of it. I complain about vegas a lot in terms of not having any family friendly things to do. But they came through at Halloween time.
Our first thing was a visit to the Gilcrease orchard to get pumpkins. The hay maze, apple cider doughnuts, and coloring projects were an extra good bonus too.
We didn't plan on staying as long as we did, and I didn't bring snacks. So we went to chipotle and the kids ate much more than I did!
Adam colored on his Cars chair with ink pen. I was explaining that it wouldn't come out.
Later, while reading the Book of Mormon I was trying to explain what baptism is. I said that we get clean like Jesus wants us to do. He said, "Maybe Jesus can clean my chair! I think he can, Mom!"
For Adam's Special Day this year we went back to the Summerlin Hospital and visited the NICU where our parenthood adventure began. We brought some blankets by and gave them to a family who just had 27 week boy/girl twins. I know Adam and Rachel didn't understand this outing, but someday they will and I don't want them to ever forget how precious their lives are and these special people who took care of them 24 hours a day for 3 months.
The kids definitely had more fun running around outside. We did too. Even though it was August, it was a really nice day.
We went to get ice cream, and then opened Adam's present. They use these alligator puppets at story time and the kids love them. So I found ones that are exactly the same.
And...once upon a time we made these plates for our family to always use on birthdays and special occasions and such. They didn't come in time for Adam's day, but here is the boy one, and we'll use it next time :)
We did a video interview with him, but it didn't upload. So enjoy this one instead and hopefully I can get the other one to work later...ok it should be at the top.
Dr. Wilkes also helped get my kids here. When you are pregnant with twins, you get to go to the doctor a lot more often. Like every 2 weeks. And so you get to know each other pretty well. So we got to have another "doctor party". Too bad it was almost 100 degrees in October. But the kids could have ridden on this slide all day long...
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