Trick or Treat!

Hailey dressed in all black and white, ready for show and tell at school.



Laughing at mommy.

Opening their package that came in the mail.

"Trick or treats" from Grandma Brenda and Papa Dan!

She thought the smiley face pumkin was so funny.

She was excited to see her name on the envelope.

Front and back. I thought he looked cute from behind too.

Hailey was supposed to wear something black or white (the color of the week) for show and tell at school today. She looked cute in her black skirt and white shirt. After dropping her off at school, I cleaned the house. Max followed me around talking to me the whole time I was cleaning. He's getting to be such a talker. He talks all day long and asks tons of questions. Shortly after picking Hailey up from school, we ate lunch. The kids got a package in the mail. Hailey was so excited but I made her wait to open it cause Max was taking a nap. When he woke up they opened it. They were so excited to find a bunch of treats and goodies from Grandma Brenda and Papa Dan. I snuck in the bedroom and put on a costume to suprise Hailey. I figured she would get a kick out of seeing me dressed up. When I came out Max pointed at me and laughed. Hailey gave me a big smile and asked me if I was going to where it trick or treating tonight. She said "You should so you can get candies too." We all met at grandpa's house to go trick or treating. Grandpa enjoyed seeing all hte kids dressed up and gave them each a bag of treats. We then headed over to Omi's neighborhood like we do every year. It was really nice out, and we didn't even get cold. Max was talking to all the people and asking them questions. He asked one guy "why can I not come in your house." And he asked another lady "Do you got lots of trick or treats?" It was funny. We all thought it was funny how he talked the entire time as we walked. Omi is remodling her home so we didn't have chili at her house afterwards like we usually do. Instead, we went back to our house for chili that my mom made. The kids all had fun playing together after eating their chili. Tonight while I was putting Max to bed, Hailey told daddy she was hungry. He told her she should have eaten more chili and then asked her if she ate all of her bread. She said "No cause mommy gave me the different bread." We had homemade white bread. We always get wheat bread so whenever someone gives her white bread she'll ask "what's this" or just not eat it.

Fun in the leaves.

Max liked to fill up his dump druck with leaves and then dump them out into a pile.

"Oh no! My wheels are stuck!"

Hailey put leaves on every step of the rock wall.

Having fun sliding into a pile of leaves.

Hailey grabbed my camera and took these next few pictures of Max and I.

Hailey and Max loved when I set the self timer on the camera. They started posing right away.

Leaf fight!

Jack fell asleep in his carseat while we were playing.

Max came in and crawled in bed to cuddle with me at 6:00 this morning. I let him cuddle for 15 minutes and then took him back to his bed. Then at around 6:30, Hailey came running into the room excitedly saying "Champ's playing with Candy!" She has seen pictures of my cat, Candy. She's asked where she is and I've told her she's in heaven. She also has been saying "Grandma is so happy. She gets to hold Champ." She is dealing with it very well. She just know's that heaven is a happy place and he's with Jesus now so why should we be sad. She has asked me why I'm sad. Then she tells me "But he's with Jesus and Jesus can hold him. And he can hear and see everything and he's not sore anymore." Then she tells me "You'll get to go to heaven too some day. Then you can hold him again. I want to go to heaven so Jesus can hold me." Children have such wonderful faith. No wonder the Bible tells us to have faith like a child. When Bruce got home from work, we got ready and took Max to get his pictures taken. At first he was acting a little shy, but then started acting silly and gave the lady some good smiles. We picked up some KFC on the way home. Bruce went to bed after we ate lunch, and I took the kids outside to play in the leaves. Jack even liked laying in the leaves. He was smiling alot especially when Hailey threw some leaves up into the air and they all fell down on him. Max loved driving his dump truck through the leaves. He would say "Oh no! My wheels are stuck! Mator gotta pull me out." He laughed when I pretended to be Mator and pulled him out. He also liked filling his dump truck up with leaves and dumping them in a pile. After dumping them, he would get off and jump in his little pile of leaves. He would jump around and laugh and then get back on his dump truck to do it again. Hailey made a pile of leaves in front of the slide so she could slide into them. She also liked thowing leaves down at me from up in her fort. She would laugh so hard as they all fell down on me. I brought out the carseat so I could set Jack down while I played in the leaves with the kids. He fell asleep as soon as I layed him in it. The kids and I had so much fun. Hailey asked to take a picture of Max and I in the leaves. Max didn't want much to do with sitting still for pictures though. Then she asked if we could set the self timer and take one of her and I in the leaves. We set it up on the small slide. I had to set it on the step though so it would be low enough to get us in the leaves. We layed down in the leaves and Max joined us. After it took the picture, we would all run to go see how it turned out. But since the camera was on the slide step, we had to get our heads under the slide to see. We were all laughing so hard as we all tried to squeeze our heads in under the slide as the same time. After looking at the picture, we would push the timer button again and quickly run back to lay in the leaves for another one. After posing for a few pictures, I decided to set the timer to keep taking pictures while we played. We had a leaf fight and threw leaves at each other. Max and Hailey were giggling as they threw a bunch of leaves at me and they all got stuck in my hair. We sure had a good time. We stayed out for a few hours and then came in to have a snack before putting Max down for a very late nap. When I came out from Max's bedroom, Hailey curled up on the couch and fell asleep too. The house sure was quiet with all three kids and Bruce sleeping. We ate a late dinner when they woke up. Max was pushing his truck around with one of his matchbox cars in the back. He got up to go get another one. He put the two side by side in the back of the truck and said "Now I have tons of cars." I gave the kids baths before starting bedtime routines. After playing in the tub for awhile, Max said "My hands are all crunchy." Bruce woke up just as I was starting to get the kids ready for bed.