October and Halloween

One day when Peter and I really needed a babysitter because our 2 trusted sitters were unavailable, we opted to get a 12 year old girl from church that lives down the road. She is great, but Joey decided he was going to be difficult. He ran out of the house screaming when she tried to get him ready for bed and kept on running until she caught him down the road. Then he was just being naughty and rude until we got home. Obviously, that is totally unacceptable. The next day Joey wrote an apology letter to the babysitter and had to bring it to her house. Then, after a long talk about how difficult it is for a babysitter (or teachers, or mom and dad) to be responsible for taking care of another person, I told Joey he was going to get a chance to see how difficult it is to take care of someone else. So, I couldn't let him have Kimball ;) but he was in charge of everything for the dog for a week. He did food, water, picked up stinky poop, even had to give her a bath. He did a great job, and I don't think he'll choose to act that way with a babysitter again.

I made the boys go out in the garage one day and practice punching and kicking something other than their brother.

We went to a little pumpkin patch and the boys had fun playing with Caleb and Ella, riding the train, jumping in the bounce houses and petting all the animals.

Kimball LOVED his Halloween gloves from grandma Gurr. It was so hot outside, but he wore them all day.

This is classic Kimball and Joey (just an example of how they fight and bug each other all the time). I made these vampire lollipops with the boys and Joey was so excited and wanted a picture. Kimball walks by right as the camera goes off and snatches it out of Joey hand and knocks the eyeball off. Joey freaks out. You can still see a teary eyes in the next picture.

We love Papa Murphy's pumpkin pizza!

Ward Trunk or Treat. Joey really wanted to be a vampire because his friend was one last year, and Kimball was so happy to use Joey's old Batman costume

We made "witch's brew" for everyone. The rootbeer turned out really yummy this year.

What kid doesn't want to comp into a yummy donut?!

The best part of the trunk or treat--plopping down and eating as much candy before Dad finds you.

Kimball's preschool does a costume parade. Kimball's cute teacher Mrs. Monica was a crayon.

I think Kimball really likes the little girl in the red wig. When he saw this picture he said, "Mom, that's Isabella Puente, she a worm-maid."

I love holiday food! They boys had fun eating pumpkin jack-o-lantern pancakes and little ghost meatloaf muffins. And those boys are just so stinkin cute!