The Williams Family: October Fun + Halloween

The kids always have a great time running around at Phillips' Farms, and this happened to be on October 1 when the pumpkin patch stuff was almost all up.

All three cousins piled into Caleb's bed (full of sand!) one day and thought it was the greatest thing!

Some boys at the park had this contraption, which I later found out is called a "Stomp Rocket". Caleb wandered over to see what all the fun was about. Note to self: GREAT boy gift! They have to run after the rockets each time they shoot them so they get lots of exercise and love doing it, and its inexpensive! :)

Our Wednesday park date with The Elsons ... here are the Calebs being silly.

...and the younger boys giving some kind of goofy smiles.

Bathtime in Nonni's new (huge) sink

We had lots of fun at a birthday party at the WOW Science museum. The paper Caleb is drawing on is is black and when you 'draw' it scratches off the black to reveal rainbow colors below - very cool. Loved these glasses, they make me laugh every time the kids put them on!

The kids got to make "Lava Lamps"

The boys have been enjoying painting and coloring a lot more lately, and Landon is getting better at not spilling the bowl of water :)

We took some of our big trucks to the park one day and there was a group of other little boys there, all between 2 and 3 years old, who LOVED playing trucks too. Caleb did very well sharing them, including his brand new one.

On days when it comes before or after naptime, the boys love sitting on the porch to watch...

...the Garbage Truck.

Caleb's preschool took its first field trip this month to Fog Willow Farms near Wilton. It is like a big pumpkin patch and animal farm. We had a great time, and Caleb loved hanging out with his buddy, Jake.

Learning about Bees

Petting the goat that escaped from the petting zoo area.

Have you ever tried getting 20 three year olds to sit still and all smile for a picture?? Not an easy task!

Caleb loved climbing around on this jungle gym of hay bales. I think it might have been his favorite part.

Getting ready to carve a pumpkin with Daddy...

Pumpkin decorating with a Sharpie (+ close supervision!)

Landon didn't want to do anything but stab the pumpkin guts with the carving knife, haha.

And the next day, painting pumpkins. Note for next time: don't use Tempera paint. It dried very spotty and thin, as if we had painted with kids' watercolors.

This year we had a plethora of pumpkins at our house, of all shapes and sizes....

I discovered something called 'surface carving' and had a lot of fun with it! Its a tool that looks like a razor used for shaving, but it has three different attachments for carving out different design. It was fun to get to decorate a pumpkin without the work (and time) of hollowing it out first! Will definitely be doing this again.

Instead of wearing costumes to school on Halloween, Caleb's school all wore pajamas, teachers included. They watched a movie with popcorn and had face painting too. This is the first time he has had his face painted. He has always checked out other people doing it from a distance, but never wanted his own cheek done. He has been into 'bats' this month.

Many have seen this picture on Facebook, but for those who haven't, Jimmy and I went to an adult costume party. We loved getting dressed up for the occasion!

Here is the full costume, actually a few days before Halloween when we were trying it all on. Its actually the only time they were wearing all the costume components at once - guess that's just how it goes with little kids and costumes! :-S

Halloween night was fun, grandparents and great grandparents stopped by to see the boys in their costumes, and then we headed to a friend's house for homemade chili, some trick or treating (boys' first time), and handing out candy.