Slurpians and Insects

This is a conversation I had with Dakota the other day: Dakota: "MOOOOM!!! There's an insect in your room!" Me: "An insect? What kind of insect?" Dakota: "A SLURP-ian." Me: "Hmmm... LOL. Ok, let me go check." I walked into my room to find an earwig... but I believe she was trying to say scorpion. I am sure glad it wasn't a slurpian! :)

Halloween 2012

Halloween was great this year... the weather was fantastic, the kids looked adorable in their costumes and they had so much fun Trick-or-Treating and never complained. They were happy all day and even Ryden was a trooper. I just wanted to remember some of the funny things they said: At one door, someone handed out big gum balls... Dakota has no idea what they are. She looked at them, cocked her head and asked the guy at the door with much scrutiny, "Are these treats?" (Like, are you sure????) Oakley would have a different greeting for each door. Once, he simply said, "Hell-ooo!" He told one person, "I need one mow Trick-eh-treat." But our favorite was when the lady opened her door and he said in a sing-song voice "Trick-or-Treat" 3 times in a row and bobbed his head side to side like he was singing along with a song. At the first place we went to, when someone would offer him the bowl to pick his own treat, he'd stick is hand in, spread his fingers and shuffle them around but never actually take anything. I'm not sure if he couldn't decide what he wanted b/c there were too many choice, or if he just liked the feeling of having his hand in there but it took a couple of hours of TOT-ing before he would just take a piece of candy and put it in his bucket. The kids made quite a haul. When their buckets got full, they'd dump it in the bottom of the stroller and keep going. Oakley dropped and spilled his bucket of candy about 10 times. But that never stopped him! We went 3 different places and TOT'd for almost 4 hours total. They loved every minute.