November Photos

The King of Chaos

Evan's idea of playing in his room is to dump all of the toys in his 3 bins out at once so there ends up being a bazillion little things all over the floor. As a self-professed neat-freak, I have had to do some major reprogramming in order to not lose my mind every time I see a scene like this (which is at least once a day!) Unfortunately, it seems that Dylan is quite content to wallow in the messiness, too, so I probably have two little slobs on my hands. Ay yi yi!!

Super Evan To The Rescue!!

Evan is still very into super-heroes these days, and his buddies at daycare are, too. I knew that his class Halloween Party would be filled with Spider Men, Iron Men, Buzz Lightyears, etc. so I decided to give Evan his own unique super-hero costume. He sometimes role plays as "Super Evan" when he's wearing one of his various hero costumes, so that's what I went with. This was my first foray into homemade costume making, but I didn't have to do all that much. I designed the logo and cut it out of felt, and just picked clothes out of his closet. He already had a black and red cape that we'd gotten at a festival over the summer, so I just sewed the logo onto that. He was very proud of his costume and enjoyed saying "Bye Bye Bad Guys!!" to all of his daycare friends.

Playing Outside

Evan and I went outside to play in the beautiful weather this morning. We were supposed to be collecting pretty leaves but we mainly just ran around on the tennis court. Evan also found a long vine on the ground and turned it into a whip, a lasso, a snake and a fishing pole, all in about 10 minutes. Very imaginative child!

Fall Is Here!

The last few days have been very Fall-ish with cooler temps and a strong breeze. We decided to decorate the house a bit to celebrate Fall/Halloween this year, as we knew the boys would love it. First I put up the grapevine wreath that my Mom made for us a few years ago, but I added some new embellishments and most of them had fallen off or been attacked by birds! Then Tom brought home some fun pumpkin lights and a spider web. At last but not least, I hung up the latest piece of art that Evan made at daycare. If the surrealist artist Picasso had decided to make a Jack O' Lantern out of construction paper, this is probably what it would've looked like! Happy Fall everybody!

Pumpkinville

We finally had some beautiful weather last weekend after seemingly endless rain, so we took the boys to Pumpkinville, the local fall festival. Evan really enjoyed it this year and spent a lot of time in the "bouncy-moons" (as he calls them) and the big slides. He even decided he wanted to go down the spider slide by himself towards the end. It was a fun outing.