Bath Time & Pumpkins

Thoroughly enjoying bath time.

Jonah got to paint his pumpkin and the Baby's pumpkin while Sophie and Daddy carved her pumpkin and one of the bigger ones.

Seeing as I seem to always be pregnant around Halloween time (although this time I didn't think I would make it this close to Halloween) we started when I was pregnant with Sophie painting my belly to look like a pumpkin, and we did it with Jonah which you can see HERE.

Jonah made the nose, Sophie did the mouth and the mustache, on top of the nose!

Jonah was clearly VERY upset that we were all done painting my belly.

Halloween 2010

What an eventful Halloween weekend! Saturday we went to my parent's neighborhood and did the whole "Trunk or Treat" thing. Since my parent's live in what is considered an active adult community (55 years and older) they don't have any trick or treaters so their neighborhood held a Trunk or Treat for all the grandkids, it was a blast and our kids had a good time, although all Jonah wanted to do was "drive" the golf cart (their neighborhood is so large most of the residents own golf carts to get them from point A to B). It was a good thing that we trunk or treated on Saturday because we did not go trick or treating on Sunday at all. Our friends who live about two house up the road had a block party for the entire neighborhood complete with a mini bounce house......Sophie was in heaven she could have cared less about more candy! The girl jumped her little heart out!

Super excited about eating candy at 10:30 in the morning!

Doing a little yard work after Trunk or Treat

On our way to the block party.

Pumpkin Painting

Just as we did last year, we painted our pumpkins for Halloween. Well, Sophie painted pumpkins and the baby, that we now know and love as Jonah, got painted. As you can see not much has changed from last year, Sophie painted her pumpkin and well, Jonah got painted.....again, only this time he was the one doing the painting! He had such a blast he ate quite a bit of paint, but have no fear it is non-toxic. He kept squealing with delight as he painted the pumpkin, then put a little on himself, dunked his foot in the paint tray and put a brush full of paint in his mouth. Silly Boy! We had lots of laughs and even more clean up, but it was worth it for all the fun we had! You will notice there are no pictures of Sophie with the exception of the last shot which is of her hands and her fabulously painted pumpkin, the reason for this is is she is going through a, "I am not going to look at the camera" phase, not to mention she painted in her underwear to avoid paint on the clothes and I really did not want to post my 4 year old in her underwear for all the blogging world to see! Click HERE to see last year's painting fun.

A Pumpkin and A Belly

Monday evening we decided it was time to turn our beloved pumpkin into what he was destined to be all along....a scary (per Sophie's request) Jack O' Lantern. Neal drew two scary faces on paper and she chose the face of our new friend. Being almost 3 years old she does not have much patience for the process of things, what child does, so she sort of flitted around the kitchen while Neal drew the face on. She did attempt to help the both of us scoop out the guts and seeds, but let's face it she is definitely a girly girl and really wanted no part of the slimy guts and just wanted to wash her hands! We made some great cinnamon sugar pumpkin seeds which Sophie really liked, a lot. When it came time to start carving, Sophie was a little more attentive, but I think by this point she was over pumpkin carving, she was waiting for the next event in the line up.........painting the baby belly! Since it looks as though our little pumpkin may be staying in where it is warm for Halloween, we thought we might as well have a little fun and make a few memories for the baby's scrap book while we were at it.