A festive Saturday

 We have another two day weekend, and I felt a bit sentimental that this MIGHT be the last with just the 4 of us.  Although I am very excited for our new addition, it will be an extra element of work for sure.

Right now the kids are cuddled on the couch watching Cinderella while Dave carves our pumpkin.  And I get to relax and blog?! 

 We’ve spent the day doing a bit of Halloween activity.  We aren’t SUPER intense about this holiday. However, growing up my mom was SO into the costume making, and Dave’s dad was really into the pumpkin carving.  So- those are the two things we have chosen to embrace.

This morning we went out to pick out our family pumpkin.  There are some great patches around here with tractor rides and lots of family fun... but we just couldn’t get ourselves together to tackle it this year.  So, we went to “loblaws” farm for some groceries and picked one out this morning.  Jesse was distressed he could not pick them up, and Janna was just so happy to run around touching them all.

After grabbing a few groceries, Jesse and I came home to make a few cupcakes while Daddy and Janna tackled a few of Dave’s errands.  Jesse did a great job pouring, stirring, icing, and licking up any messes he made.  

 I decided that at the same time we were making cupcakes, that I would also make lunch, AND supper and a freezer meal.  Why do I do these things to myself?  Dave returned home to a disastrous kitchen and slightly frazzled me, but we got everything under control in a matter of 20 minutes.  Now- supper is ready and I have another 2 meals to throw in the freezer for busy days with a newborn.  I am up to about 15 meals made at this point... and I feel pretty good about that!

After a  nap, Dave and I reorganized our storage room a bit, and did some car stuff while the kids napped/had quiet time.  Jesse was VERY excited to help with the pumpkin when he woke up.  We looked through some pictures of carvings online, and of ALL the pumpkin faces I showed him, he was SET on an angry one.    The kids watched very carefully as Dave took off the top- but Janna had ZERO interest in the guts and scooping, and Jesse felt after 5 minutes that it was too messy.  LOL!  So- poor Dave sits here emptying and carving the pumpkin by himself.

I finished up Jesse’s costume on Thursday night, and he spent all yesterday wanting to wear it.  We put it on AND took it off 4 different times during the day.  Each time it inspired giddiness and chicken noises, which led Janna to look for hers and try to put it on.   Janna loves her lamb costume, too, and cries when we make her take it off.   So, maybe I’m not supposed to post pictures until after Halloween of them- but they were just too cute to pass up:

Jesse insists each time on sitting Janna down and stroking her face while singing “Mary had a little lamb it’s fleece as pink as snow,” very seriously into her eyes.  Pretty funny!

Anyways, I am going to go and cuddle my babies and check out Cinderella with them.  I haven’t seen this in ages! Thanks for reading. I’m out!