Thanksgiving Feast

Alex had a Thanksgiving Feast at his preschool on Tuesday, which turned out to be pretty cute! The kids all dressed up as pilgrims or Indians and, honestly, what is more cute that that?!

Alex was a pilgrim, although Nick pointed out that he kind of looks like a bishop, too.













The kids all sat on the floor "criss-cross applesauce" as they say in preschool. The had each made a place mat that included the ubiquitous hand-print turkey. Alex's was very realistic and included a sun in a blue sky and some grass for the turkey to run on. He's in his realism period...











Alex all seated and ready for the feast to begin--isn't our little pilgrim cute?!













The feast was a preschool dream come true with cheese curls, cookies, cold-cut turkey rolls, potato chips and apple slices...for once Alex ate everything on his plate!

This is the video of Alex singing the two Thanksgiving songs that they had learned for the occasion. Again I have to say, "How cute is this!?"

Happy Halloween!

This year Alex dressed up as Mickey Mouse and Andrew was a pumpkin--cutie pies both!


Alex is really into Mickey Mouse right now so he decided he wanted to be him for Halloween. The ears on the costume even squeaked!










These are all our neighborhood friends all dressed up before the trick-or-treating began.

Both the boys before we headed out. This is one of the few pictures of Andrew posing--he was running around like a wild man! He loved the trick or treating!

Checking out the loot...Andrew loves Smarties now. He actually found a roll of them yesterday that Alex had rejected. I hear from the other room "Mmmmm! Mmmmm!!!" and the crackle of the wrapper. I went in to see what he was doing and he smiled at me with about 10 Smarties in his mouth!

Pumpkin Carving

OK, so I'm (again) a little behind on posting the Halloween festivities but, oh well. Better late than never, right? (Those of you who know me well know that being late is the bane of my existence and this is killing me. Again, I will plead "Oh well" and act like I don't care! :) )

ANYWAY, we carved our two pumpkins the night before Halloween, one white and one orange. Alex was particularly excited about the pumpkin goo, which he learned on a field trip was called "pulp." Of course, when he says it, it comes out sounding more like "poop," which you'll hear in the video. Very funny when he says pumpkin pulp (poop).

Here is Alex assisting me in taking out the pumpkin innards. Andrew looked on with great interest and even sampled the pulp, as you can see in this picture. He spit it out right away. Nice.

Here is the master pumpkin-carver with his creations all lit up. And he's even smiling a real smile and looking at the camera--it's a Halloween miracle!