Randall was traveling for work this week and then in Denver for a guys weekend so the girls and I had some quality girl time. We kept ourselves busy with lots of fun halloween activities. The weather was gorgeous during the week so our evenings included walks with friends to get ice cream, pumpkin decorating at preschool, cleaning up leaves and even dinner outside. We don't get 80 degree days often in October so took full advantage of them.
With the weekend came rain and an end to warmer temperatures, but we didn't let that dampen the fun. It was pouring on Friday evening when I got home from work so we decided to make it a girls night in. My little princesses were playing dressup when I got home. We all changed into our pj's and then cooked spaghetti and meatballs together, because the girls had been asking for meatballs all week (for some reason this word has taken on a hilarious meaning for them. They will say it randomly and break out into a fit of giggles). After dinner we prepared "Boo" packages for a couple of neighbors. The girls are very excited to "surprise" a couple of their friends on the street. Because it was still raining at bedtime (& Kenzie is scared of the sound the rain makes on her window) we ended up having a sleepover in my bed... a girls weekend tradition :)
Thankfully it had stopped raining by Saturday mid-morning, so my little butterflies & BIG caterpillar could go to Hyde Park Square for the costume parade & trick or treating in the square. They were very excited to finally get to wear their costumes!
We ran into Hayden from their preschool class right away and between her "screery" dragon costume and full face paint the girls didn't even recognize her. But when they realized who it was they were so excited and had fun chasing each other around the fountain.
We also met up with George & Skylar and the girls had a blast walking around collecting treats.
Not sure what Kenzie & George are doing here, but I love how they are both eating a lollipop while balancing on one leg :)
We went straight from Hyde Park Square to the fall festival on Mt. Lookout Square. The girls were very excited that there was a bouncy house and had fun doing the cake walk.
After naps we went on a mission to "Boo" our neighbors. It was a good thing that neither of them were home, because Kenzie did not really get the concept of being sneaky. If they had been home, her giggle would certainly have given us away :) After 2 successful BOO's we continued our walk to the park. The girls are really into pretend play right now. They played store/restaurant for over 30 minutes. They were cooking things out of wood chips and then selling them to me. At one point Kenzie said, "Mommy, you want a Diet Coke?" To which Lexi said, "that will be five dollars." They crack me up. We then walked down to Zip's for dinner before heading home for story time in mommy's bed.
The fun continued on Sunday with pumpkin muffins & pumpkin carving for breakfast. Since I knew it was just going to be me doing this solo with the girls I prepped the pumpkins the night before, cutting the hole in the top, removing some of the guts and pre-cutting the face. That way the girls were able to participate more on Sunday morning and managed to stay interested the entire time. They removed the remaining guts ... although Lexi was not a fan of this "mess." Then they were able to use they little toddler knives to remove the precut shapes. They LOVED this and felt like they were really "carving their pumpkin" themselves, so it worked out fabuously!
After carving pumpkins we headed out to meet friends for HallZOOween at the zoo. The girls were beyond excited to see George (&Skylar) again! The 3 musketeers (or should I say 3 stooges) had a blast being silly together. They were all hyped up and were running around like mad men/women. At one point they were all bear walking through the zoo. It is so cute to watch them together and I can't wait until Skylar is big enough to keep up with them.
We pretty much covered it all in the 2 hours that we were there. Saw all of their favorite animals, including Lulu the baby giraffe, the bears eating pumpkins, and Whodey the tiger, and rode the train & the carousel.
After naps we had some quiet time at home reading books about New York in acticipation of our big trip next weekend. Let's hope that Hurricane Sandy doesn't do too much damage and that things can go on as planned as the girls are VERY excited to go an an airplane with their princess suitcases to the big city! We are praying that everyone stays safe.
We then went to Dewey's for dinner ... the girls request cause they wanted to watch the pizza man, made a stop at Target (cause what girls weekend is complete without a Target run), and came home to light our jackolanterns so that the girls could really see the result of their hard work that morning.
They were impressed :) It was a perfect fun-filled weekend. I think it is fair to say that we were all exhausted. I felt like I had run a marathon ... and then had to remind myself that no, that is next weekend :) I am looking forward to Randall returning tomorrow because as much fun as we had this weekend, things are always more fun when we are all together.... plus I need to try to rest up before the big run next Sunday :)
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