October 2015

loves to read! 

goof

cutting her own food! 

checking out the homecoming parade loot

science experiment!

time for chores! (this lasted about a day...)

malloy's zinnia

Applefest! 

FASHION! 

 playdate with friends!

playing spy in the fort

fingerprints - rex found fingerprints on his boogie board, circled them and labeled them

grandpa bruce brought us a boat!

talking to her friend cecelia on her "phone"

math problems in pjs

picked out her "cool" outfit

we went to stoughton's  with uncle ryan, aunt kari, bella. addy,  grandpa gary and melissa, grandma val and grandpa don!!

 playing at grandma and grandpa's

 school picture day! here's what they looked like when i sent them:

love this face

 auntie elaine and auntie ali came to visit!!! malloy loved quizzing them on everything palace pets and rex quizzed them on skylanders. what fun!

pumpkin farm field trip with rex's class!

rex and his pal tyler

 finally using the new chalkboard wall!!!

decorating the window for halloween

cuddles

 grandpa gary sent a recipe and asked us to make apple fritters so we gave it a whirl! yum!!

writing her spelling words

rocking out

malloy's ghost

games! 

my collaboration with rex

curly sue! 

saying goodbye to grandpa don before he goes to korea

time for fall festival at school!  daddy took the kids around while i volunteered at the craft table with grandma val. malloy was Mal, daughter of malificent from disney descendants and rex was a morph ninja

she had to stay in character and wear all purple to bed

 the kids have discovered apples to apples and LOVE it! we played it 6 or 7 times in a row!

grandma val's treats! 

more apples to apples

 we found a new show on netflix that teaches sign language. malloy LOVED it!!! rex was getting into it too!

not feeling so good and trying to lay on my lap.

scavenger hunt!

blue eyes

this is how malloy gets her own breakfast

 aunt cathy brought the kids an awesome halloween treat!

 neal and i made halloween bats for rex's halloween party

ready for black day and their halloween parties at school!

the night before halloween, we had a little pumpkin carving party at our house. aunt amy was a huge help and scooped the guts out of rex's pumpkin. she started scooping and rex said "good luck with that, aunt amy" and walked away. that kid is something else.

the night ended with a dance party with aunt amy

 halloween! we went to roro and papa's for lunch and to visit. then we went to grandpa bruce's to visit and show him their costumes and then it was home to have dinner and go trick or treating! we had subs with grandpa gary and grandma val and then it was time to trick or treat! it was fun this year! the kids were running into a bunch of their friends - so cute!! when we were done, rex came inside and watched some halloween shows and malloy bundled up and passed out candy outside.

everyone wanted in on the teletubby fun!