I am loving it that my kids are still at the age where I can manipulate them into wearing costumes in the same theme (and usually what Mel's kids have worn two years prior). I am feeling like my days are really numbered on this. I was planning on Popeye and Olive Oyl (Ha!) for this year, but already having Kira's Tinkerbell costume & Mason's Peter Pan costume swayed my decision.
Tinkerbell enjoys the farm animals (much like her costume predecessor.)
Grammy shares some interesting farm facts.
Serious Peter Pan.
Two ninjas (Maile and Mason) and Peter Pan check out the chickens.
+ Rapunzel (Kira) and Tink.
Exploring a...okay, I wasn't paying attention. But it does remind me of those little structures that Mel and I visited when we were in Ireland. (If I wasn't so behind on blogging I would dig up a pic.)
Inside the "structure."
The two little Kienzle princesses - they play so well together!
Playing on haystacks.
Group Cousin Pic.
Add 1 Pop-Pop (+ Tinkerbell's wings)
We jump on the hayride and head out to the pumpkin patch to pick our pumpkins.
Olive took awhile to pick her pumpkin, surveying the rows for the perfect one.
The perfect pumpkin!
Nikos found his winner fairly quickly.
Olive chatting Tyke's ear off on the way back to the car.
Niko wants to pose one more time with his pumpkin (how cute is this kid!) (Ps - this may be the debut of his new smile...)
Back at home we carved the pumpkins - left to right - Olive's pumpkin (from school), Heather's, Taki's (stalk as nose), Nikos', Olive's and Nikos' (from school.) And how cute (and big!) do the kids look in this pic.
And love this one of Olive adoring her big bro.
Flash forward to Halloween morning and the preschool Halloween parade. We all gather at the school and basically walk around the block in the neighborhood and then back to the school. As I'm getting the kids ready I realize Olive is a little bit warm (okay borderline on fire) and like any respectable parent...I drag her to preschool for the parade.Papouli and Grandma met us at the school. Olive charms Papouli in her classroom (this may have been the last time she smiled all day.)
Preschool parade. Olive (obviously at this point not feeling well), cried inconsolably until Nikos held her hand. (You can see both that she is looking a little peaked and he is looking a little un-thrilled.)
After the parade was over I took my little mini-sauna home with me and she promptly laid in our bed and then fell asleep about 10 minutes into tangled (with a fever of 103.)
Later that night for Halloween Taki took one for the team and stayed home with Olive while Nikos & I met up with Cecchins & the D'Angelos for trick-or-treating.Not sure how I didn't get any good pics of all of the kids, but here are two.
Peter Pan and SuperGirl (Brookie.)
+Hulk (Marco.)
We had a great Halloween, adults with their roadies, kids collecting lots of candy. Nikos even asked one house for a glow bracelet for his sister since she was home sick (so cute!) Of interesting note, I'm convinced that Olive's fever, which lasted 2 days, was the starter for my lower left lung pneumonia (to debut - and last - most of November.)
2 comments:
That photo of Olive sleeping is one of the sweetest poses I've ever seen.
They look so cute with the pumpkins, out front of your house. They are getting big!!
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