Abby and the Pumpkin...

The Making of Pumpkins...

I seriously wish Halloween fell on a Saturday every year, it was the best. We had such a great day relaxing and playing around during the morning and then after the girls' nap we actually carved up some pumpkins. We ended up only doing three since Ben ended up doing Lizzie's... she was not so good at the carving, getting goopy part... Abby loved it though! For Lizzie's pumpkin Ben sketched up a version of her little black kitty, from her Littlest Pet Shop toys (they're so taking over our whole house)! For mine I made a little mouse house for some more of her little pets and for Abby's we made a self portrait... the infamous Abby face!

The little mouse house complete with windows, a door and stairs

Lizzie's black kitty pumpkin... Ben's coolest one yet!

Abby Face!

Halloween Party...

Here's some pictures from Lizzie's Halloween Party at preschool this last Friday. The kids got to get all dressed up in their costumes and parade around the school, they were all so cute. After the parade we had our little party with tons of food and candy and spent the rest of the time playing around. Happy Halloween!

Lizzie in her "sister doggie" costume... littlest pet shop has completely taken over our world!

Abby was a little doggie too!

Preschool at the Pumpkin Patch...

Lizzie had her first field trip last Monday, her class went to Lombardi's pumpkin patch. We've been there before as a family last year, I think everyone around here as been there at least once. They got the full tour of the patch with all the various animals they have there, saw how pumpkins are actually grown, took a train ride, and at the end everyone had the chance to pick out their very own pumpkin. Those of us who's kids go 2 days a week had to tag along on the field trip since it wasn't an official school day for us, but we didn't mind. I had Abby with me and a couple of other moms, some with little ones too, were there as well. We all had a great time chatting and hanging out while our bigger kids were out playing among the pumpkins.

Singing songs waiting for the train

The inseparable duo... Lizzie and her friend Isabelle.

Bouncy Kitty...

Birthday Party Madness...

Last Sunday the girls and I headed down to Los Angeles for Little Ben's birthday party. It was at this really neat play space with tons of stuff for them to just go crazy on, it was even a costume party... ah the joys of having your birthday celebrated with a major holiday. My Ben doesn't like that part at all, nothing against Halloween, he just wants his birthday to be just his birthday with no theme attached... anyways. It was a fun time had by all and Lizzie even was excited to eat birthday cake, she never eats cake... I guess if it's from Porto's she'll eat it! ;)

Sorry Ben, you missed out on the scrumptious chocolate banana cake!

Just a Somewhat Normal Sunday...

Here's some pictures of our kitchen turned art studio over the weekend. Ben was planning on actually painting too, he even primed a huge canvas and everything, but he was thoroughly distracted by the little ones' constant need of paint refills and the 'daddy, daddy look what I did"... it was really cute actually. Even Abby joined in fun for more than a little bit and was extremely excited to make a mess and draw on stuff without getting in trouble for it, crazy little girl.