Trick or Treat

Hailey showing Jacob how to do some
of her ballet moves she learned in her
dance class.

We went to Omi's (Kenzie's grandma's) house to meet for trick or treating. We all have been going there ever since Kenzie was a baby. We always go trick or treating around her neighborhood, and then we have chili afterwards. Omi always makes such good chili and homemade bread. My mom also brought butterhorns this year too which were really good. Omi and Nana gave the kids their bags of goodies from them right away, and Vikki had gotton trick or treat bags for each of the kids so they would all have matching bags. We got the kids ready when we got there and then headed out. It was misting for a while, but it wasn't too cold. Kimmy and I both thought it felt good to have the mist on our faces. The kids all had so much fun going up to all the doors and getting candy. They would all say trick or treat really loud when they got up to the door. Hailey was very excited and would always be the first to get to the doors. She would run ahead of us, and sometime she would even already have her candy by the time we got up to the door. Max kept trying to go into every house. After saying "trick or treat", he would look in and say "hi" to the other people and then go to step up to get inside. After they would put the candy in his bag, he would say "tanchew (thankyou)" and then reach into his bag to get the piece of candy out right away. Max and Hailey brought their pumkin flashlights and had fun with them while riding in the wagon between houses. Just a few minutes after Kimmy and I said that we weren't ready to go back yet, it started pouring. Good thing we brought a couple umbrellas. The kids stayed pretty dry cause they were all under the umbrellas, but the rest of us got soaked. (The picture of Bruce and I with the kids kind of shows how soaked we got. The rain made the picture a little blurry though.) Omi had towels ready for us to dry off, and then we had some nice warm chili. Of course, the all the kids had to eat some candy first. Right away they all say down on the floor with their bags of candy. Kenzie played her violin for us tonight and she's getting pretty good at it. She played a couple songs for us. Then she let Hailey try playing it, and she really liked it. Now she keeps asking us if she can take violin lessons too like Kenzie. When I was rocking Max tonight, Hailey walked in with her light up shoes which really light up in the dark. Bruce took them off of her and then decided to put on a "fireworks" show for us. He held them high above his head clapping them together to make them light up while making real sounding sound effects at the same time. He would make a loud boom sound, clap them together, and then while they were still twinkling he would bring them down slowly. It looked and sounded so real that Hailey started crying (she is a little scared of fireworks). Max kept saying "Wow" everytime. It was so funny cause they both thought it was real. I was laughing so hard. They sure have a talented daddy. Now we can have our own private fireworks show without even leaving the house.

Max woke up early at 7:15 this morning. I brought him back to bed with me hoping he would fall back to sleep. He layed with me till 8:00 but wouldn't go back to sleep. Right when he got up, he ran to Hailey's room and climbed up on her bed to wake her up. After we ate breakfast, I played dolls with Hailey. Then she wanted me to pretend she was at school and I was her teacher. When I told her to write her name on her paper, She said "But pretend my name don't have a H. Pretend my name is Lolly, and my last name will be Pop". She was so serious. I thought it was so funny though. Then she asked me how to spell it so she could write it on her paper. I worked on catching up on laundry while Max was taking his nap. When Max woke up, I took the kids outside to play. It was so nice out today. I got their bikes out and let the kids ride up and down the sidewalk. They rode back and forth between the two roads for quite a while. They would ride down to one road, turn around and go right past our house riding down to the next road. Hailey decided to walk with me after a couple times, but Max just wanted to keep on riding his car. Hailey picked up leaves and pine cones along the sidewalk. Max would stop his car and pick up a few along the way too. Then he would throw them back down and keep on riding. Bruce came home just as we walked to the backyard to play on the swings. We carved the pumkins after the kids were done swinging. The kids loved helping. They didn't want to touch the pumkin guts, so they used spoons to help scoop it out. They were very serious while watching daddy carve the pumkins. Hailey helped show daddy how she wanted hers to look. They both kept putting the pieces back in and pushing them through to see them drop inside the pumkin. We also did our turkey pumkin. Hailey lined up all the feathers how she wanted them to go. When it got dark out, we took the kids outside to light the pumkins. They both kept peeking inside to see the candles. Everytime Max would look in he would say "Wow". Then they ran around the front yard chasing daddy. They thought it was so neat playing outside in the dark. They were both laughing so hard. Max was so tired when we came in the house, he was begging to go to bed.