The Mother of Geese

Abbie: It was pretty great. Ehm, doing trick or treat. Candy is not good to you right? It was pretty great ya know mama. I like saying Trick or Treat... Daddy: Smell my Feet Abbie (yelling): I didn't say that Daddy! It sounds like this trick or treat and thank you.

Here is Amelia's first go at the whole carving the pumpkin deal. She was really interested in the goop after it was taken out. I needed to keep chanting to myself that its all organic, its all organic, its all organic-but the dry heaves were tough to keep down when she grinned at me with pulp in between her teeth. Now that's just nasty. Abbie drew her pumpkin face that would have challenged the knife skills of Emeril himself. More Halloween fun later tonight!

Last year at this time Amelia looked like this

Usually on Mondays I have to go to my staff meeting at DP then rush home so I can clean the bedrooms, change sheets, and basically clean up from the weekend. I got the wonderful surprise this morning as I was zipping up my boots that the meeting was canceled making this a true Monday Funday. So instead of all the duties, Abbie and I decided to make crafts! So I threw in a load of laundry and she got to work. Here she is making melted crayon wax paper leaves. She is so talented!!