Halloween

Well we went on our Halloween haunted drive on Sunday. We just took a trip down Devil's Lake Rd, and visited an old home site which had a really spooky looking outhouse and well. Then we headed to Spooner, where there is a road that if you park a ghost hearse will follow you back to town. We were expecting a more deserted road, but there were actually several houses, so we didn't end up parking... it was a nice drive anyway. The most haunting thing about it was the crazy mooing of the cow from the farm behind us! :) It sounded quite psychotic.

I dressed the two little ones up for playgroup on Monday. They were so cute :) Almost all the little kids were dressed up and it was a full house! There were a couple of spider mans a couple of hens, snow white, a couple of different power rangers, a ghost, a dog, a princess, a penguin... it was pretty fun. The kids all had a blast.

I ended up taking Maria and Duncan out trick or treating after all. Maria was planning on going with the neighbor girl, but waited too long to call and ask, they were already taking two extra kids (along with their 3) and didn't have enough room in the car. I felt bad, so decided that since I was going to take her, I might as well take Duncan. I took them to the two blocks of town :) there were 3 house lights on one street, so we actually got to walk to a few houses. I hadn't coached Duncan on saying Trick or Treat since I didn't plan on taking them, but I worked with him on it through dinner - he said "ticka ticka" and "treat" - but of course he wouldn't say it (or anything else) when we got to the houses, but would say it on the way to the next house :) He's too funny - acts all shy and won't talk around people, but yet he wanted to run into everyone's house and make himself at home! So we went to the three houses in town and then went to a couple of houses on the outskirts of town... trick or treat here is much different as the houses are all a ways apart from each other - so it required a lot of in and out of the car... we only went to about 6 houses, but they had as much candy as they would have had going to 20 or more houses in the QC (and it took about as much time too)- every house gave a big handful of candy. They had fun anyway :)

Sugar High coming on ;)

Sugar High complete ;)

Brrr!

Another week gone. Time is just flying by! I can't believe Halloween is next week already! Before you know it, it will be Christmas! There's been frost on the ground and cars all week. :( I'm just not looking forward to the cold weather! It's already too dang cold!
Well, I actually got Beatrice to laugh once more for me! She's a tough cookie though. Doesn't want to give it up too easily! :) And she finally started trying to "talk." She hasn't really done any vocalization (other than crying and screaming of course). The other night she tried really hard with her whole body and came out with a sound that sounded so much like Hi!! It was so adorable! Then she made a few other sounds coos and such :) aw :)
Not much else going on this week... We may go on a road trip this weekend to some communities around here that have "haunted" places from the "Haunted Wisconsin" book. And there's a road here called "Devil's Lake Rd" that is pretty scary :)
Maria decided that she's going to be a zombie for Halloween. Duncan says "membie." :) Duncan is just going to be his gorilla from last year since it was too big last year. Don't really want to buy him another costume when we probably won't take them out anyway (it will be too cold, and too dark, and we'd have to go too far). Beatrice is going to be a giraffe (a costume aunt ally gave us). I'll probably dress them up and go to Maria's school parade. And on Monday all the kids from Duncan's play group are dressing up, so I'll take them dressed up there too.
I actually made it back to the playgroup for Duncan yesterday. He did really good again :) Got some energy out :)
Sadly, I haven't really taken many pictures in the past week, so... here's a few of the few I took ;)

A productive weekend

Maria had a blast at her friend's month early Halloween party this weekend. They really went all out, of course I didn't see any kids in Halloween costumes, so I'm glad we didn't run out and get hers this weekend. She's still not sure what she wants to be this year. They actually did a Halloween maze not too far from their house. It sounded like lots of fun.

It was a productive weekend because we were busy all weekend cleaning up the clutter! :) I am the queen of clutter - but then it gets out of control and seems like an overwhelming task. Everyone got in on the work this weekend. We rearranged a bit (a very slight bit makes a big difference sometimes!), took out the air conditioner and cleaned, and it almost seems like a different house ;) Now the big challenge will be to keep the clutter at bay.

Beatrice decided that one of her favorite places was hanging out on dad's lap in the rocking chair. She was a little on the fussy side this weekend, probably not feeling well (still a little congested), and I just couldn't do much to make her happy. She was so calm and content sitting in dad's lap just looking around.

Then she started sucking her thumb! :)Then she tried to get her whole hand in her mouth :)

And here she is napping in her swing :)