Field Trip & Halloween Parade!

Today was bursting at the seams with activity.  I chaperoned my first Kindergarten field trip to Blandy Farms...an experimental tree farm.  It was cold & breezy...and I was assigned 4 kids to keep track of.  It was a lot of fun, but my head was pounding from the loud bus ride!  Here's Hannah with her friends, Ryan & Brianna.  5 is such a sweet age.  I'm really enjoying this Kindergarten adventure!

After the field trip, Hannah and I went to Sadie's preschool to catch the tail end of her Halloween party and costume parade.  It is neat to watch Sadie finally get to participate in the events that she's watched Hannah do for the past 3 years.  I think her Goldilocks outfit is adorable.  And with the parade, the trunk-or-treat, and Halloween night....we sure are getting our 10$ worth!

Trunk-or-Treat

Today, I took the girls to the 2nd annual MOMS Club trunk-or-treat.  It was sort of a last minute decision, seeing as it was such a rainy & cold day!  I picked up a couple packs of spiderwebs and we decorated the back of the van....as if our van isn't already scary enough!

About half-way there, I realized I'd forgotten to grab their pumpkin buckets...but I didn't have time to turn around to get them.  So I dug up a Subway kids meal bag...and a clear plastic bag that had my new toothbrush/floss in it from my dentist appointment.  Hehehehe :)   They didn't care!

Oh..and Hannah's Snow White wig itches her head, so she's wearing her Rupunzel headband.  She thinks it's cool that she gets to be TWO princesses at the same time!

Fall Happenings

We've been keep busy this Fall!  One of our newest adventures is Girl Scouts.  During the summer, Hannah participated in a "pre-Daisy" 6 week program.  An older Girl Scout (who was running the program as a way to earn a badge for herself) taught the girls what it was like to be a Daisy scout...they sang songs, planted flowers, played games, etc.  Hannah absolutely loved it and decided to continue into a true Daisy troop this Fall.  Another Mom from the group and I volunteered to become co-leaders of the troop.  At first, the other leader and I felt like we were floundering, trying to get the troop off the ground with little guidance from the district coordinators. Lately though, things are falling into place.  We finally have all the girls registered & we're earning our petals.  Hannah has made some new friends and is gaining more confidence.  It's also something special that we can do together.
We've had some nice weather lately, so last week we picked out our pumpkin & the girls drew and helped carved the face.....