October 31st - Happy Halloween

Instead of our usual 8 houses, we went all the way to the end of the block this year. For "real" Halloween, Jack was Spiderman. Charlie was loyal to Captain Hook. Josie just wore her pink skeleton onesie.

October 30th - Part 3 - Party at Madsens

Bat girl invited Peter Pan to sit next to her, to which Ronny and I sigh, "Awww". Sam is such a nice girl.

Josie got to test drive Kenzie's Jumperoo, which she loved. I guess that means it is time to get ours out of storage.

We tried to get all of the kids together for a picture, which is really impossible, but hey - we tried.

We did try to get a picture of these three, though, just for the characters - Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and Peter Pan. Obviously, they weren't too easy to get looking in the same direction.

October 30th - Part 2 - Jack's trick-or-treating

The bigger kids at the JSC childcare center get to trick-or-treat at NASA - going from building 1 to building 12 to building 45. They collect TONS of candy and have a blast. Charlie's teachers said that we could bring him along, so we did. Our Peter Pan needed his Captain Hook anyway.


People loved the adorable little flower that I grew. I dressed as a gardener with my rubber boots, scarf, and a trowel. Jack's teacher, Miss Tess lent me the mini watering can to complete the outfit.

October 30th - Part 1 - Charlie's trick-or-treating

Today was a full day of Halloween celebration. We started with Charlie. The rooms with little kids trick-or-treat at the childcare center around the big kid rooms. Charlie is often shy and uncomfortable when I am in his school room and today was no exception. Charlie and his friends were adorable, though, and collected some good loot.

October 28th - Space Center Houston Halloween Party

This was our first Halloween party of the year - the NASA Children's' Party at Space Center Houston. We've gone so many times that we have a "strategy". Dinner first, which is always pizza. Here are our well-behaved boys awaiting their dinner.

I love this shot of our man-of-mischief. He had been asking to wear a pirate costume for "pretend Halloween" and Spiderman for "real Halloween". So I ordered a pirate costume and just for fun, a Peter Pan costume for his sidekick, Charlie. Of course I could have predicted this outcome - Jack wanted to wear the Peter Pan costume. Good thing I didn't tell Charlie that I ordered the Peter Pan costume for him. He was happy to be Captain Hook.

I adopted a few new kids for trick-or-treating. I recently told someone that Emma was my first baby. Her mom was the first one of my friends to have a baby and I loved visiting her every week when Emma was a baby. Now look at our 9-year-old. (And did I mention she is brilliant?) At first, I was apprehensive when Jenny asked if we could take the girls around with our brood. 5 kids? But then I remembered something - THEY ARE GIRLS. Emma was great at herding our boys and keeping the group together. And Daisy was sweet as always.

Here Jack and Charlie are waiting for a girl to make them balloon ghosts, which were very cute. All night long, people called Jack "Robin Hood" which is probably why there is a picture of Peter Pan right on his costume.

This star made Josie smile for the first time all night. It was so cute. He was very sweet to her.

October 24th - The birthday party

Today we had a birthday party for Jack and Charlie at Acrosports. The kids had a lot of fun running and jumping and hanging with their friends.

Ronny said that Charlie would yell, "I'm on top of the world!" before jumping from this platform into the foam pit.

October 24th - The Ballunar Liftoff

Today we woke up bright and early to go to the Ballunar Liftoff. Really we always wake up bright and early. The latest Josie has slept in the last two weeks is 5:47am. The earliest wake up call for me was 3:15am. Painful! The boys aren't supposed to leave their room until is "says 6 on the clock", but they are usually down by around 6:30. Anyway, we were already done having Ronny's waffles and able to leave the house ~7:30 - in time to see the balloons fly in for the morning balloon competition. It was the first chilly morning in quite a while and the balloons were beautiful.

October 23rd - Happy Birthday Jack!

Today was Jack's 5th birthday and quite a day it was. In the morning, there was a Halloween puppet show, which both boys loved. Ronny and I had lunch with Jack - a picnic outside with his class. We had brownies afterwards with his classmates (his dessert choice). In the afternoon, the boys' school had their Fall Festival. They played all the games and then ended up at the playground for a while.

October 22nd

October 21st - Look what I grew

This costume really didn't look so good on the hangar and then I put it on my baby girl. ADORABLE!

October 17th - The Pumpkin Patch

Today we went to the Fall Festival at the Pumpkin Church (Clear Lake Methodist Church). The boys ate snow cones, played in the bounce house, and took a train ride. We came home with three little pumpkins.