Halloween and Welcoming November

 Halloween!

On Tuesday, Claire dressed up at school and had a little party with her class, and then there is a track out back of the school where Shay and I went to watch the parade of costumes. Shay had fun seeing the many different costumes and Claire was excited to see us and wave the 3 times she passed where we were standing. Once we got home she showed us all the fun things she got...including slime...and we ate dinner and waited for daddy to get home from work so we could go trick or treating! We had some neighbors come to get candy from us right as Chris was finishing dinner and Claire asked to stay home to hand out candy and see more people! I don't know how many people came around our neighborhood but I had a bowl on our porch for them and we went to a bigger neighborhood to get our treats. There are a lot of people around this area that set out bowls probably going around with their own kids! Both girls filled up their little buckets and had us carry them once they were 3/4 full because they were getting heavy with several full-sized candy bars, and plenty of variety! You can see Claire was a mermaid again, Shay was Catboy, and Chris and I decided to be skeletons to stay warm which I was grateful for, but too bad we didn't have time for face paint.

Claire

Every morning while they eat breakfast I let them watch cartoons before Claire has to go to school and she has been picking Bluey every day! She then got it in her head that she wanted to do ALL the 12 puzzles we have because of one of the episodes that reminded her of the puzzles. It took her 3 days and help from Daddy, Shay, and me to actually finish them all because she gets distracted like in another episode we know...She is doing really well when we read together and is improving and enjoying it now especially since she can earn time to play phone games on the old phone if she reads two books in a row with me. We limit that to the weekends mostly and only if she asks so she doesn't spend time on the phone much anymore and we are glad we broke that habit. 

Shay

She helped me take down the Halloween decorations at home and put up the 5 Thanksgiving decorations we have. I wish it hadn't rained most of the week because it feels like we've been stuck inside forever and at least we have lots to do inside. With Claire's obsession with Bluey, Shay likes it too and we brought down all the stuffed dogs that were currently hiding in the closet. She found her puppy from the library and did her hair then told me to take her picture. Luckily I did or else I'd only have pictures from Halloween! I love this little cutie!!