October was a month of warmer weather. We had a lot of fun getting ready for Halloween. A lot of the books we read were the same as last year's. Since my camera is not working, I didn't take pictures of the books that were new for this year. We also had a good family vacation to the Kalahari Desert area of Namibia as well as a few outings in Windhoek.
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| We went to a museum. |
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| We sipped hot chocolate in the Kalahari Desert during the early morning hours. |
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| Ryan is putting candy in treat bags that we were making for people. I would give him enough pieces to put one in each bag. After he would finish, I would refill his bag so he could go another round. |
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| Justin was much faster putting candy in the bags and even started tossing them in. |
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| These are the jack-o-lantern faces that we stapled to the front of the treat bags. |
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| Ryan used a bit more glue than Justin. He hasn't mastered the "just a dot" rule yet. |
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| We made a Halloween book patterned after "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" and called it "The Trick or Treaters!" Justin and Ryan chose the pictures. I wrote most of the text, but Justin wrote in the I and me parts. |
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| The boys LOVE stickers. They went through about 700 Halloween stickers. Good for working on fine motor skills, right? |
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| Justin put our poem in order and Ryan would put the ghosts in order from 1 to 10. |
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| Ryan at Bush Park early in October. |
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| Justin at Bush Park earlier in October. |
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| My cute little monsters. They love little projects like these. |
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| Here are some of the pumpkins we made. |
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| We painted some pumpkin pictures and then the boys did their own thing. Not sure what Ryan's is supposed to be, but Justin said his was a Christmas tree with big decorations on it. |
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| We played with Imaginext a lot. The boys manage to find unique ways to combine their toys. Here we have play food, Ty Beanie Baby Wonder Pets, Imaginext figures, wooden blocks, and Fisher Price car. |
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| We did Five Little Pumpkins on the flannel board. |
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| My boys managed to fight, wrestle, and play without any serious injuries this month. |
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| We made and labeled our skeletons. We watched a DVD of "Dem Bones" about a million times. |
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We wove strips of paper through some pumpkin cut outs.
Justin labeled rooms in the house so guests would not get lost. He added pictures in case they couldn't read. |
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| And of course, trick or treating. :) |
