Creeping Towards Halloween

 Claire

She had a great school week and is starting to remember and learn so much! We have been asking and having her recite my phone number, 911, her name, our names, her birthday, and our address. The only one she can't do now is our address and out of the 26 sight words she still struggles with about 8 and can usually get the majority if she sounds them out first. It is fun to see how much she is learning and especially how creative she is being because she likes drawing, coloring, and then cutting out pictures to put on their wall above where they sleep. You can see how Shay lays out her Frozen characters for bed time too. She now likes to make check lists, and draw love hearts for daddy to send under the door when he was sick. They had way too much fun visiting with their great aunt while Chris and I went out on Saturday and I got picture updates of all their activities. They colored, decorated cookies, played with the dogs, and watched movies together. 

Shay

With all the time we spend just the two of us, you would think she would be sick of me but she seemed to love me. She likes to come find me with what I'm doing and say she loves me when she actually wants to ask for food usually. I always have an answer that involves making sure she had finished her food fromthe meal we just ate before she can ask for more food so she is funny about going to 'I love you' instead of asking for food if she already knows the answer. She has been wearing her Catboy costume a lot recently and I don't doubt we will still have it as something she can dress up in since I've already repaired three holes. If you can't tell, her favorite things are Catboy and Elsa which means she loves the color blue. I couldn't tell you which came first but I suspect she liked Elsa which made her like blue and then pick Catboy because he was blue. Who knows!

Halloween

Chris finished his yearly milk carton skeleton and we carved pumpkins this week, meaning Chris did his and I did the girl's pumpkins. I never got around to doing mine later in the week since I was too worn out after doing both of their with what they wanted. Shay wanted a PJ mask Catboy, of course, and Claire wanted all the princesses so I had her pick just one and help me draw it on there to cut. Being the weekend before the actual holiday, we went and met up with some friends to do a corn maze and a haunted field right next to it. We were pretty disappointed with the maze part and I definitely wish we had looked for a different one since the season is now over and corn mazes are my favorite part. It was small and didn't have a map to go with it, just wandering around and we were able to get out of one of the many exits in like 5 minutes. We went to eat before the field of fear opened and had some tasty Hawaiian food.