What have we done this fall??? Well, for starters we went to Gardner Village and say the “Witches”. We filled out papers for the witch hunt and all the kids got a cookie for 25 cents for finding them all. Caleb did not like the witches and would cry if I put him near one. The other kids all thought the Witch using the bathroom was the best.

We went to a Pumpkin patch to go through a corn maze, play on climbing toys, and pick out pumpkins. It was so fun to watch Sage try to find the perfect pumpkin. She would pick it up and look at it and then set it down to look at it and then tell me what was wrong with it. This happened to about 5 or so pumpkins until she found the perfect one and put it in the wagon. After all the kids found their pumpkins she ended up putting hers back and just picking one up and saying it was good. I got a good laugh out of this!

Playing in leaves is one of the kids favorite things to do!! One night, I raked what leaves had fallen off the tree the the kids played in them. This was when Jayden was a the hospital. Soon more leaves fell and we raked them in. A few days before Halloween, Kip raked lots of leaves and the kids played in them and then we stuffed them into pumpkin bags for decoration. What a great activity to help clean up the yard and the kids were more than willing to help.

On October 29th, I decided it was time to paint pumpkins and carve pumpkins. The kids agreed and we had a great time. All the kids painted their own “baby pumpkin” and decorated them with shiny confetti. After dinner, I opened each of their big pumpkins and they started digging them out. They did a pretty good job for how young they are. When each pumpkin was clean I would ask them what shape of eyes and nose they would want and what they want their mouth to look like. Here are the finished results from left to right: Braxton, Jayden, Caleb and Sage.