Marco’s Halloween Parade at Escuela

This year I volunteered to help with Marco’s Halloween party at his preschool.  The parents are asked to help out with one party/year and I figured I might as well get my volunteerism out of the way before baby comes.  Although I theoretically could have done the Christmas party, I just didn’t see myself almost 9 months pregnant helping fifteen 4-5year olds make Christmas ornaments and picking up stranded beads off the floor.  I know, I know call me crazy… :)

Mrs. Brown’s class 2010-2011

Poor Joaquin had to sit at the extra table by himself, but he had a chocolate cupcake to keep him company so I don’t think it really bothered him sitting alone.

I'm not quite sure what joke Marco was telling his friends, but he sure had them all cracking up.

 

The class on stage performing their song. (Black Cat)

The Animated One

Just a few of the many faces of Joaquin.  I see his personality evolving everyday and I think he is going to be the class clown.  But that is what they say about the middle child, right? 

Recycling the pumpkin art

Since our carved pumpkins didn’t seem to last long, we decided to paint the pumpkins the boys received at Calloways Nursery a few weeks ago.  Not many of the original decorations remained, so that made it easy to repurpose them.  This time around we are just going to paint, and we will see how long they last.

 

And of course we had to make some Halloween inspired banana bread. Any brown spots on the banana and the boys deem it unfit to eat, but if I mash it and say we are going to make B bread they are all for it.  Especially if they get to put sprinkles on top.

One Last Pumpkin Patch

 These pictures were taken at Hall’s Pumpkin Farm.  The boys had fun playing in the hay house, making friends with scarecrows, and pretending to ride the tractors. 

Joaquin doesn’t “officially” have allergies, but all this hay was sure making him sneeze.

I think Joaquin is getting a little tired of all this picture taking.

Fall Festival

These were taken at our first Fall festival of the season.  There was candy, games and popcorn.  This is the first time they got to wear this year’s Halloween costumes, but it won’t be the last.  I think we have about 4 more festivals on the calendar. (if we make to all them, of course)  This one was like a practice run for the rest of them.  :)

 

James the Train (he also as the choice of Thomas the Train since they were so easy to make)

Black Spiderman or Venom. Marco only has one costume choice this year since he decided on a store-bought one.

Lowes and Fire Station- what more could a boy ask for

 

 We had not been to a Lowes build and grow kid workshop in a long time, so we decided to go this Saturday.  They each made a flying bat that is now hanging from our front window.

showing off his bat while finishing a cookie

After Lowes, we went to the Bedford Fire Station open house.  They do this once a year in October and the boys really enjoy it.

 

Marco could barely stand up with all the equipment on. It almost doesn’t look real.

Campfire Stories

This was our first year to go the campfire story session that the city of Hurst puts on every year.  We met up with some friends and the kids all had a good time.  The older ones got a little scared listening to the “ghost” stories but the younger ones didn’t seem to mind.  Maybe they just weren’t quite old enough to get it.

 

Roasting marshmallows before the stories begin.  Marco is not a big fan of marshmallows but he did like to put them in the fire.  Joaquin on the other hand had himself a marshmallow (or 5!)