October Celebrations!

It is so fun to have Elliette's birthday so close to Halloween. We have always had a costume party for it. It is great to be able to have the kids wear their costumes more and sure makes it fun for them. This year we did a theme of dressing up and for her party. It was Dr. Seuss! Kyndal and Elliette were Thing 1 and Thing 2, Dawsyn was the Cat in the Hat and Marshall and I had hats as well. I told Paul that we were going to paint his face green and make him the Grinch. His refusal made it more true that he was the Grinch!! It was sure fun, especially for me. We got out of the library a whole bunch of books that we haven't read before like the Sleep Book, I had trouble in getting to Solla Sollew and the Sneetches. They were really fun. We have also been reading The Lorax a lot lately. Elliette picked it the other day when we were at the bookstore. It is so great!!

So at Elliette's party I was really excited to have it be like a book study. We decorated the house with signs that pointed the way to different Dr. Seuss places and warnings of things from his books like; Watch out for the Pants Eating Plants!! Sneetches crossing, and Sam-I-Am this way. The girls even got so excited and were writing their own signs, copying from the titles of different Dr. Seuss books. Kyndal wrote out a bunch of games that she made up from the books. We played a story telling game, like how the story gets bigger and bigger in And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street. We read the Lorax and made our own Truffula trees and guessed how many Truffula tufts were in the jar. We then read Green Eggs and Ham and played a scavenger Hunt of matching the rhyming words from that story. It was great that the kids had to read, write and think about rhyming and didn`t once complain about any of it. I love how we can learn and not even notice if we say it is a game. We ate Roast Beast (pulled pork) and then had a special Green Eggs and Ham cake. It was so fun!

Our little Thing 2

Marshall got a hat as well. Though this is the extent that he wore it as I didn't manage to put an elastic on it.

Turner is such a good sport. He came on time for the party starting even though the games were for the kids. He always has such fun Halloween costumes.




Amber makes a natural Pippy Long Stocking!! I loved that hair. She kept bonking it onto things. So funny!

We didn't manage to get a picture with everybody but we are always grateful for our great friends the Laws. The kids invite their cousins and Eliza and Adaline to all their things. Friends that might as well be cousins. And Nana dressed as a baby cuddling their sweet babe Clara.


Does she look excited?


She was trying so hard to blow out those sparklers. It was so cute!!

Here is a better view of the cake. It was so fun to make. I love the Green Eggs and Ham book.

Elliette wanted a Rainbow cake. So here it is! There was more purple but I had to level the cakes to stack them and that took off most of the purple. It was yummy for me to eat though.



Truffula tufts and trees.

All of the Dr. Seuss books we had.



For Halloween the kids dressed up again in their Cat in the Hat attire and out we went. Thankfully it was quite a warm day (high of 9 I think) as the kids costumes were warm enough. They were just so cute, Elliette running the fastest from door to door, I could hardly keep up with her. Especially as Dawsyn was so great at using her manners, saying Trick-or-treat, the saying Happy Halloween and Thank you. She was so cute and got a lot of compliments at each house. Then I would pick her up and run to catch up with her sisters running ahead. Once we got back in sight of the house Kyndal was finished, just wanting to get home and eat her candy. Elliette and Dawsyn did a few more houses and then headed back home. It was a really great time. Kids are what make every holiday extra special. Getting to enjoy things from their perspective and the excitement that they bring to everything. It was great, other then eating candy until we all felt sick, but at least it is through now!!

They are so excite! You would think they had already eaten a tonne of candy.










So we had a great birthday and Halloween! It is just so crazy that my little Elliette is 5 now!! She is still so little (on the 7th percentile for weight (32lbs) and less than 5th for height (98cm)) She is just such a funny little personality!! She is wild and crazy, very physical little girl, always hanging upside down off the couch or jumping from anything, a fast little runner, she is just always going. She is sure also showing us how smart she is. It is great to see that the things you are teaching are actually sinking in. She is excited to do her kindergarten work and is gaining so much confidence in her reading. It is so great to see! Well, we are sure glad to have her and help her grow. We sure love our little Eggie!

Elliette was even smaller then little Marshall here when she was born. I just can't believe that she is getting so big. It is always as odd feeling that my kids are getting so big yet they are still so small. That is definitely the case with Elliette.