What's Ben doing with his toes???

What is Ben doing?

Any thoughts?
Any ideas?

He is obsessed.

He looks in his toes.

And other people's toes...

For "toe fuzzies".

And it is adorable to watch as he rips his socks off all day long to look for toe fuzzies!

Farm animals

This guy...

Pretty much....
always...

has a...

Sheep, goat....

Cow, horse...

Or any farm animal...

In his hand...

Connor's parade

Last Friday we went to the Halloween parade at Connor's school. It is so cute and I look forward to it whenever I have a little one in it!
Maggie and Ben got dressed up for the occasion. My little princess and her puppy dog.

Connor was dressed up as Harry Potter and looked so cute even though I didn't dare send in all of his costume.

He waved to his adoring fans, aka, mom, nana, Ben and Maggie, as he walked by.

Not sure what was up with Ben, other then being tired, but that kid wouldn't crack a smile for anyone. He just sat there with such a puss on his face! Not that he was grumpy but he just wasn't happy either.

After the parade we took our time walking back to the van so we could admire the fall trees and flowers in the park across the street. These were Maggie's favorites.

And these were my favorites.

Fall is such a beautiful time of year. I just wish it wasn't getting so darn chilly out.

Maybe mother nature will surprise us with a couple more Indian Summer days, or maybe we will have to wait till next year for more warm weather.

Who knows...

Wordless Wednesday...

Halloween

My four monkeys got all dressed up and decked out for Halloween night.

As you can tell by the pictures Ben wanted no part in having pictures taken because although he didn't know what was going on he just wanted to get a move on!

I did get a pretty good picture of the three older kids though!

Katelyn was a soccer playing vampire! Yikes, she played that part a little too good.

Connor made the BEST Harry Potter I have ever seen! He fit the part perfectly!

Maggie was a beautiful "winter princess". She had a Disney princess costume that she was going to wear but changed her mind when she saw this Christmas dress two days before Halloween. She looked beautiful, oh, and she was a lot warmer!

We all walked up and down our street doing some trick-or-treating. Well, technically Ben drove.

Sweet Katelyn would hold Ben's hand and walk him up to doors so he could get his treat. He was in awe over this whole process.

Then after our street Ben and I headed back to our house to pass out candy, eh, pretzels actually. Ben loved giving out the candy to all the kids! He didn't get nervous at all about the costumes, not even the scary masks, so that was great.

What fun we all had! The big kids had 5, yes FIVE, Ziploc gallon bags full of candy when the night was over. Way more than we need for sure so yesterday each of them picked out 25 pieces that they wanted to keep and sold the rest to me for 5 cents each. We are going to pack them up and send all of it off to the military and I am going to see if the children's hospital would like some as Katelyn wants kids to have it that couldn't go trick-or-treating. Great idea Kate!

I love my kids, I am so proud of them for sharing and thinking of other people!

Indian summer

Man do I love me some Indian summer! The rare days in late fall along with the ones from early spring (which aren't technically Indian Summer) that are warm are some of my favorite days.

They are kind of like a little tease but I'll take 'em! Like last week when the kids got off the bus and the temp was in the 70s.

The kids all had such an energy to them and big happy smiles.

Some even had bare legs and naked feet.

And although Maggie would probably go out in the middle of the winter like this it is most likely the last time this year it will actually be appropriate.

Maggie made this beautiful creation. This is one of the times I am awe struck at the amazing beauty in such simplicity.

And yay, I actually got a good picture of Connor! As the matter of fact I got quite a few. He was cooperating with me and my camera. Must be the warm Indian weather day.

We even discovered a fairy house in the bottom of one of our trees.

I hope the fairies enjoyed the beautiful day as much as we did!

Connor's medal

"Connor was the most improved player of the year and the toughest player!"

Those were the words Connor's coach said when he gave Connor his medal.
I couldn't agree more and I am beyond proud of how wonderful Connor did this soccer season!