The Phipps from Whoville

Charlotte had a Halloween party today at Joy School and decided to wear Hazel's bumblebee costume. Something so cute about dressing your kids up as bugs and animals.

Charlotte in her Halloween "line-up" at Joy School.

My two babies!

It really was a beautiful fall Halloween day with hundreds of golden brown leaves on the ground. Again, I had the choice to go home and clean clean clean while Charlotte was at Joy School OR to take these babies somewhere fun and relaxing where we could make a memory. I'm grateful that I chose the latter. I do enough cleaning anyway! If felt rejuvinating to be there with my littles.

It's fun to see how much little ones LOVE to swing. It's a pretty exhilarating feeling when you think about it!

Edison's first time on the swing. Looks like a little teddy-bear in that hat.

Later that afternoon, we started preparing for Halloween night! Hazel spend about 45 minutes painting her entire face and neck with green paint to be the Grinch. She did it all by herself. Then we slipped on her green tights and Santa costume and voila!

Little Cindy Lou Who didn't take much work since she's a natural anyway.

 

We had chili in bread soup bowls shaped like pumpkins with some spiders on the table.

Gram and Papa Kevin came over for dinner and trick-or-treating.

Presenting: the Grinch and little Cindy Lou Who!

She really does look scary to me!

And a can of Who Hash and the Roast Beast!

I love that hat. And those dimples.

Max the dog! Dressed up as a reindeer.

The Grinch's heart and a larger Roast Beast joined us... (I love that they dress up to match us)

And I was a present. And my wrapping paper dress kept ripping every time I'd bend over to pick up a child. Don't worry, I was fully dressed underneath.

Willow borrowed Ellie's antlers to be a real Max, the dog.

After trick-or-treating the girls were so pooped that they came home, checked out their loot, ate a few pieces and then went straight to bed. David and I always watch a mildly scary movie on Halloween night since we NEVER watch scary movies, and afterwards I decided to peek in the girls' room. 

I saw this:

Apparently, Cindy Lou Who decided she wanted to go to bed as a bumblebee and barely made it back onto her bed before she crashed.

Happy, happy Halloween.

Tuesday 30th

Poor thing is doomed to get dressed up quite a bit in his young life. We just hope it doesn't carry over into his adult life.

Our new van! Our girls can actually get back to their car seats without crawling on the floor under the baby carseats. We now have all three girls in the back row.

I took Charlotte and Ellie to the library today to get a few more Halloween books!

Allie came home with us again and we made Halloween cookies together. Then they decided that they wanted to put them on plates to doorbell ditch the neighbors.

My awesome homemade spider. Not my best work of art.

Baby food made with my beautiful carrots and parsnips from our Winder basket.

Halloween Family Night

Monday, the 29th started off a little rough because when I went downstairs to go to bed at Kevin and Vicki's, I noticed that Willow had peed in the bed on my side! So I climbed into bed with Charlotte upstairs, thinking I'd still get a good night's rest but she literally giggled and wiggled all night long in her sleep. It was ridiculous how much she moved around! So needless to say, we all slept in and had to throw on clothes really fast to get Hazel to Kindergarten on time. Then I remembered that I had a doctor's appt. for Edison. It's so nice to have David work from home so I don't have to take all the kids with me to those appts! I left Charlotte at home and brought Ellie with me to the doctors appt. Then I came home and put the babies to sleep and took Charlotte on a mommy/daughter date to a Joy School field trip at the Nature Center. It was nice to be with her one-on-one and it was beautiful outside.

After the field trip, we went to Carl's Jr. for lunch!

That afternoon, I had the choice between doing dishes and tidying up (again), or harvesting the rest of my carrots FINALLY. I chose the latter and it felt SO good to be outside.

And we had several beautiful carrots in our ground!

We ate a lot of them and I used to rest to make baby food.

This is Ellie's new thing: she helps me unload the dishwasher. She's good at it and I like that she's learning to help.

That evening for family night, we went to the Treehouse for their Halloween event. We let the girls choose their own outfits for tonight:

 

 Here's Hazel reenacting her pose from a few years ago when she was wearing this same costume (it's quite small now) and having a temper tantrum.

 Her face! She is quite into princesses these days so she chose to be Belle.

 I noticed that one of Hazel's antennae had a bite taken out of it.

 Every time the girls and I are at the Treehouse, we talk about how we think Daddy would be strong enough to pull the sword out of the stone. He did his best, but it wasn't meant to be...

 This elephant costume is my favorite. It was Charlotte's from last year when we did an African theme. I was surprised that Eloise kept the head piece on but she seemed to love it!