October Activities

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.

We went to a museum.



We sipped hot chocolate in the Kalahari Desert during the early morning hours.



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. 

Justin was much faster putting candy in the bags and even started tossing them in.

These are the jack-o-lantern faces that we stapled to the front of the treat bags.

Ryan used a bit more glue than Justin.  He hasn't mastered the "just a dot" rule yet.

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.

The boys LOVE stickers.  They went through about 700 Halloween stickers.  Good for working on fine motor skills, right?

Justin put our poem in order and Ryan would put the ghosts in order from 1 to 10.

Ryan at Bush Park early in October.

Justin at Bush Park earlier in October.

My cute little monsters.  They love little projects like these.

Here are some of the pumpkins we made.

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.

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.

We did Five Little Pumpkins on the flannel board.

My boys managed to fight, wrestle, and play without any serious injuries this month.



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.

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Justin labeled rooms in the house so guests would not get lost.  He added pictures in case they couldn't read. 



And of course, trick or treating. :)



December 30, 2010



Aside from the regular Christmas stuff, this is what we have been up to this last little bit.  Having two birthdays kept us busy too.  December is a busy month.

Justin took over the task of making his robot birthday cake.  Really it was a cake with about as much frosting and candy as it could possibly hold!



Sorting Christmas and not Christmas pictures.



We got lots of dress up things for Christmas (thanks to after Halloween sales!).  It was nice to find some stuff for them since most of the year all I can find is Disney Princess related.  Yuck!

We made "gingerbread" houses out of milk cartons, graham crackers, and candy.

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer puppets complete with red pom pom nose.

The boys are still thrilled with all the new stuff from Christmas. : )  It is nice that they can entertain themselves for 5 seconds without getting on each others' nerves. :)