E is for Egg

This year I decided to start a little preschool/playgroup for Sophie and her friends. It's been so fun. All the moms rotate weeks with the kids, as well as the letter for the day. Since we had the letter E for our last turn, we decided to go on a real live field trip to visit some eggs (and chickens). They were not your normal chickens! A lady in our ward keeps these exotic chickens as pets and was kind enough to let us visit. We fed them bread and even got to feel a warm egg that had just popped out of a chicken. Then we came home and colored our own eggs. It was eggcellent! (sorry, I had to say it!)

Triangle Hair, Eyeballs, and a Girl's Prerogative

I know were a little behind on Halloween, but I still wanted to post our fun times we had. This first picture isn't actually of Halloween, but it might has as well have been! It just so happened that red ribbon week was the same week leading up to Halloween, so this is Gracie's "crazy hair day" creation. We used lots of wire-I liked it. By the way, red ribbon week had quite the effect on my children. We found them leading the neighborhood in a parade as they marched around the cul-de-sac chanting "WE HATE DRUGS! WE HATE DRUGS!" Pretty funny.

Triangle head Grace

So on to Halloween....we had a super holiday. It was a beautiful day, and my parents even came up to celebrate.

Carving pumpkins on the driveway...why didn't I think of this before?

Ben and grandma cruisin' the sidewalks.

Grandma Shaw taught us how to make these spooky eyeballs. You can read all about them (for next year) on her food blog.

Jake freaked all of us out this year. I've never known him to be creepy, but he surprised us minutes before we were to go trick -or-treating with this lovely face. Yikes!

Poor Ben. He was a sick little puppy. There is an unwritten law in this universe that one of my kids has to be sick on Halloween. We took him to one or two houses, then called it quits for him.


On a good note, Sophie and Gracie had a great time this year. They opted to be princesses (their respective favorites, by the way), and I was just fine with that. We had a whole dress up bin in our basement just waiting to be worn. Sophie chose to take full advantage of the bin, as you can see. Why wear just one costume per year?

Trick-or-treating princesses

1st grade Halloween party Tinkerbell (and Briar Rose)

Story time mouse

Preschool cat