More pics

(written last night)

I'm going to try to get some pictures posted ...in between trips up the stairs for "my tummy hurts".  Halloween is a rough time for those with reflux.

  Parker, Sarah and "Cujo", smeared with fake blood.  Parker would like you to notice her new Roxy hightops

The 'little girls' of the group.  Sarah had already ditched her shoes. 

Big girls and little girls

  Are you wondering "what about bob?".... he had an opportunity to go to the World Series tonight, so that's why he's conspicuously absent.  He's had the decency not to send me any pictures of himself cheering Rangers, holding up #1, yelling woohoo, so I have none to post.  I don't begrudge him one bit for going, I enthusiastically encouraged it....too bad he wasn't more of a good luck charm though. 

Halloween pic

Here's a quick pic taken earlier. We've just returned from Trick or Treating and I'm about to try the impossible task of getting Parker bathed and into bed. She has school tomorrow morning, which will be very pretty I'm sure.

Halloween weekend

We had a VERY busy weekend. Instead of dealing with the giant piles of clutter that is my house, I'm going to post the Halloween pictures since I know a few folks are anxious to see them.

It seemed like Halloween went on FOREVER this year. We got 2 good weeks out of it at least. Last weekend we attended a carnival, both in costume. Parker is a bumble bee, thank goodness. I was STUNNED that she didn't want to be Hannah Montana.....which was lucky, since they boy next door went as Hannah. My costume is courtesy of Bob's mom, she made the little sheer bolero top and the hat of course. It was a big hit during trick or treating...none of the other parents usually dress up.

The neighbors put out a blow up haunted house. they also have a fog machine which worked so well that it actually fogged up the neighborhood quite a bit, especially around the lake and made things really sort of spooky.

Our whole cul de sac goes together in one big mass to trick or treat (9 kids) to start out, and then they generally splinter off in to separate groups w/ a similar pace. Generally, the dads take the kids to TOT and the moms stay home and hand out candy. But this year, UT was playing so Bob stayed home to cheer them on, and I went out with Parker with the normal dad group....I was the only parent in full costume of course. Parker hung in there for about half a mile and then said "I'm ready to go home" and that was it. I was shocked, because last year she was out for hours it seemed.

She got home and dumped out her loot....lots of good quality candy this year. She ate a couple pieces and then was ready for bed. She was asleep before 9pm!

Pumpkin Carving

This year we got to the pumpkin carving a little late, so we had to do it indoors. Bob did the honors this year, and made Parker do some of the icky part of pulling out the seeds.

Helping with the cutting out.....

Final product

Trick or Treating

Halloween has come and gone. Phew, that was tiring. For at least 2 weeks we've been doing pumpkin carnivals and activities at school, etc etc. What will Christmas be like?

Here was her lunch on Friday. I made a special Jack O' Lantern sandwich, and also included some roasted pumpkin seeds from when we carved her pumpkin (are you rolling your eyes yet?). She ate exactly 1 bite of her sandwich.

I was actually a little worried about her, because all she ate for her entire lunch and snack at school was a box of raisins. And she never eats raisins. And for dinner she had only broth with a few noodles.
But when time for costumes and trick or treating came around, she was more than ready. Her costume was Strawberry Shortcake. I was able to talk her out of being Hannah Montanna....this year anyway. If you click on the picture, you can see I've dotted little freckles on her nose and given her rosey cheeks.

Bob and the neighbors all walked the kids around in a group, and we (the moms) were shocked that they were gone for well over an hour! They came home with lots of candy and treats and had a great time running around outdoors in their pj's while the adults visited. Parker was up WAY past her bedtime, but she had a great Halloween.

Pumpkin Carving

By Halloween day, we still hadn't carved our pumpkin yet, and we had a small window of time to get it done after Parker got home from school but before Trick or Treating started. Parker designed her own face, using a stencil maker on Better Homes and Gardens Website.

I taped it on, and the next step is to punch holes through the template to transfer your design onto your pumpkin. I figured I'd just do that part real quick and we'd be on to carving. Not exactly. Parker wanted to do the punching too, so I let her try, assuming she'd do a few and lose interest. Not exactly. An HOUR LATER she was still going, determined to finish, despite my efforts to draw her offsides. And of course her attention span is only about 3 minutes, so she'd punch for 3 minutes and then stop to ask random questions, and then she'd start again after I suggested maybe we were ready to carve now. Clearly, she got Bob's gene for working on a project until it's complete.

Once the carving part started, and she realized she was expected to get her hands icky, she remembered she needed to jump in the trampoline and sing Halloween songs, so I did the rest of the carving.

I have a few more pictures of her costume, but the need editing. I'll try to have those up soon.

Happy Halloween!

Parker is back from Trick or Treating and had a wonderful time. I'll post a full report later, but here's a picture to hold you over.

Happy Halloween!!!

More Halloween

My picture selection was panned, so I'm trying another one.
In this photo, for some reason, the girls had dragged chairs into the living room and were pretending to be in church.

Haloween Party

Our running group had a little Halloween Party today. Parker had a blast running around with her little friend. They were both fairies, although Parker prefers to think of herself as a ballerina or a princess. I'll have more pics of her full costume after Halloween.