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!