But wait...

So the night AFTER trick or treating, we were getting ready for bed, talking about Percy and Thomas, and I asked Liam (yet again) if he would try on his train costume. Nope.

So I said "will you try it on so I can take a picture to show Sadie?" Magic words: "show Sadie."

Yep. He not only put the stupid thing on, but also ran all over the house in it shouting "all aboard." You're a day late little guy!

Oh lemon...

Wouldn't those have been cute costumes? Tears. Sigh. Oh well...live and learn mommy and daddy, live and learn.

Candy!!!

Ok. Let me start by reminding you how much the boys love Thomas the Train. Remember when we rode on Thomas? How we have a train table in our living room? How we have Thomas shirts and pajamas and a lunch box. So what would be a better costume than Thomas and Percy, right?

Wrong.

After Chris and I stayed up late for more than one night making these cute little trains, neither boy would even put it on. Not even for a second. Nope.

So when it was time to hit the street (we only went down ours), Quinn was decked out in the costume we put together for his preschool party, and Liam, bless his heart, wore his Thomas shirt. At 5 minutes to 6:00 (trick or treat time), Liam says "upstairs mommy to get Trick or Treat shirt." I had no idea what he was talking about so I followed. He goes through his drawer, pulls out the Thomas shirt the Gobrails gave him for his birthday, and says "lets go mommy." What could we do? We just rolled with it.

Trains or not, they LOVED trick or treating. Even Quinn. It was adorable.

Pre-Halloween events

Liam has been a little excited about Halloween. He's talked about pumpkins for a month. He asks to go on a hayride all the time. And after we saw a Special Agent Oso episode, Liam has wanted to put eyes on his pumpkin (thanks Disney Channel).

We attempted to decorate Halloween cookies on Friday, but my helpers were a bit more into eating the cookies than decorating them. They were big fans of the moon ones. After going through six cookies that could not be consumed by others, mommy decided to decorate them herself.

And then Saturday morning daddy, supervised by Liam, carved two little pumpkins for the boys. Way cute.

Our hayride and pumpkin adventure

What better thing could you do on a fall Saturday morning than go play on some wooden playground stuff, ride on the bumpiest hayride ever (poor Lauren--see below), and pick out pumpkins?

We met our friends and their kids bright and early (well, early if you don't have kids) yesterday to do exactly that. We visited the Windmill Farm Market, played for a while, looked at some interesting animals (as in maybe not the cleanest), and then went on the longest, muddiest hayride I've ever been on. Don't get me wrong, it was awesome. The tractor went through huge mud holes (weren't we having a drought?) and down big hills and everything. The kids loved it. But our friend Lauren, the poor thing, is 8 months pregnant. Mental note: no hayrides when pregnant.

Halfway through the ride, we jumped off the wagon to pick out pumpkins. Liam was SO excited because he's been wanting a pumpkin FOREVER.

And, of course, we had to make all the kids (sans Gavin, who is a little too small for a group photo opp) do a cheesy/adorable group shot. Awww.

In the words of Dave..."what did we do before we had kids?"

BounceU

Today we made our first trip to BounceU. Oh. My.

First lesson: it makes the kids very tired. How tired? Liam fell asleep while he was talking on the way home.

Second lesson: it makes parents very tired. And maybe a little sweaty.

Third lesson: Quinn has apparently been secretly training in climbing. That boy can pull himself up a wall SO fast.

Fourth lesson: Liam is not a fan. But don't worry...they had football. All was good with the world.

Fifth lesson: the workers are so nice! They were best friends with Quinn by the time we left.

Definitely going back again.

Liam and Sadie girl

Liam loves visiting with Sadie and Jenn. Every time I put my sneakers on, he asks if we're going for a walk with Sadie and Jenn. Or he asks if "Sadie girl" is coming to play. And sometimes he even calls Jenn "mommy Jenn." It's pretty cute.

So Liam was very excited to hear that Sadie and Jenn were coming over on Saturday (along with some of his other favorite friends).

How cute are they?

Enjoying the last days of summer

Before we officially broke the long pants and coats out, we took a trip to the K and the park with our friend Emmie.

Oh ice cream and parks and warm weather...how I'll miss you!