Lex woke up yesterday, looked at the calendar, and said: “Mom, tomorrow is Halloween day and Saturday is Halloween night.\u00a0 That means tomorrow we have to go to the store and buy candy to give to the trick-or-treaters.\u00a0 We also have to go to the store and buy pumpkins to make jack-o-lanterns.”\u00a0 Like that was his plan all along.\u00a0 I wish he’d start writing these things on the calendar for me!\u00a0 We already had candy so we checked that right off his mental list and I started trying to work jack-o-lanterns into my Friday plans.\u00a0 Truth be told, this Halloween scrooge was hoping to avoid the jack-o-lanterns this year.\u00a0 We bought a few little pumpkins a few weeks ago and the kids happily painted them (per Lex’s instruction) and they both participated in the carving of many jack-o-lanterns at daycare, so I was hoping to skip it here.\u00a0 But I guess Lex had it scheduled for Friday.\u00a0 After I picked him up from school (the cookies were a hit, by the way!) we stopped at the farm stand and bought pumpkins, mums and apple cider, on sale :)<\/p>\n
MY Friday plans had included a playdate with a friend and her kids, so after naps I gave them a call and, conveniently, they had pumpkins to carve too… so they came over and we had a pumpkin carving playdate.\u00a0 As seems to be the case with pumpkin carving, the kids were interested for about five minutes and then ran off to play, leaving the grown-ups to finish the job.\u00a0 Luckily we had fun with it. I also LOVED when Lex insisted we “play” the “five little pumpkins” game.\u00a0 With some effort I came to understand that means singing a super cute song and at the end the lights go out.\u00a0 Anyone know this song?\u00a0 I love hearing about stuff he learns at school.\u00a0 We tried to record him singing but the other kids were making noise and he is a quiet singer so you can’t really hear him in the movie.\u00a0 It was a beautiful thing though, from a mommy perspective anyway! :)<\/p>\n
Then we got pizza and around 6:30, after eating only a few bites of dinner, a very tired and sick (cold, congestion) Eve got down and said it was time for bed.\u00a0 She does this at nap time a lot lately.\u00a0 She’ll have some lunch and then say its time for nap.\u00a0 She goes upstairs and climbs into her bed.\u00a0 Sometimes she just sits there and waits for me, other times she reads a book to doggie while she waits, tonight she pulled the covers up over her head and fell asleep!\u00a0 The door was open, the other kids were running and yelling downstairs, and Eve was out like a light.\u00a0 I went up and put a diaper on her, she smiled and hugged me but otherwise kept sleeping.\u00a0 She’s so funny!\u00a0 She’s always been a great sleeper but lately she has become crazy and fights bedtime.\u00a0 About a week ago she started putting herself to bed and really appreciating sleep again.\u00a0 I think it’s just because she hasn’t been feeling well lately, but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.<\/p>\n
Then while my friend and I chatted, Alan did an awesome job of wearing out the other three kids.\u00a0 They cleaned up the GIANT mess they had made in the living room and office, they played Simon Says, they played tag, and lots of other fun stuff.\u00a0 I lost track.\u00a0 I sat on my butt and chatted with my friend.\u00a0 It was a great night :)<\/p>\n\n\t\t