Halloween at the Wynns

Halloween has come and gone and it was the busiest one yet for the Wynn Family.  We had a full weekend of activities and a surprise house guest.  We had trick-or-treating at Chris' work on Friday, we were having a party at our house on Saturday, and then another party and trick-or-treating at a friend's house on Sunday.  Then of course Monday, the 1st was Sarah's birthday.  And on Friday, Sarah's mom's boss' son came down to stay with us for the weekend.  He lives in Vancouver and was having a car delivered here, so he thought he was going to pop down and pick it up and go back to Vancouver, but the delivery got delayed so he had to stay and help us all weekend.

Pumpkin carving was a fun event.  Ella drew a design on hers for Chris to carve.  Thinking it would be easy to do some silly face, I went over to check it out and she had drawn 2 trees with a big spider web in between.  That was a bit tricky to carve.  Max was literally gagging from the smell of the pumpkins and kept his distance.  I had to do his whole pumpkin, he didn't really have any interest after getting a whiff of the insides.

Ella decided to dress up as Wonder Woman this year, and she was pretty excited by it.  Max had a Captain Rex costume from Star Wars, then on Sunday he decided that he wanted to be Darth Vader without the mask, which we already had a costume for.  We went over to a friends house for a halloween party and to go trick-or-treating with a whole group on Sunday.  They were a pretty crazy group of kids, running from one house to the next in a race to get a ton of candy.  Luckily the weather cooperated and we didn't have to contend with any nasty rain or anything.

Ella & Max in their costumes on our spooky porch

Check out the whole gang of trick-or-treaters

A Day at the Pumpkin Patch

With Halloween quickly approaching, we spent the afternoon at the pumpkin patch this past Saturday.  We had to get some pumpkins after all.  The place was jam packed with people, the kids played around on some hay bales while I went in search of a wheelbarrow to carry the bounty in.  We figured, there was no way we would be able to carry them all throughout the field.  It was quite the contest to secure an unattended wheelbarrow, I finally found one hidden by a tent and scooped it up before anyone saw it.

Ella the Song Writer

Ella has been getting into pop music lately, her musician of choice right now is Selena Gomez, I must have listened to that CD at least 5 times today driving around with her.

With her new interest, she decided to take up song writing maybe in hopes of becoming a pop-star.  She has decided to call herself, Lady Googoo, an obvious spin on Lady Gaga which she finds to be a funny name.

Her first single is titled "Nachos and Cheese", here it is in its entirety.

Nachos and cheese

Olives, sour cream

And meat

Ham, ooh ooh ooh oh

Reach to the sky

Ooh ooh ooh oh

I love you mom

Not bad, I think she might have some talent here.

Ella lost her first tooth!

Today was a big day for Ella.  She lost her first tooth!  She lost her bottom front tooth.  The little sucker had been loose for about a month, maybe a month and a half.  She was playing with it constantly tonight, distracting her from paying attention at soccer practice.  I thought that it still had a few weeks to go before it popped up.

But after coming home from soccer, she was out playing with some friends when she and her friends came running in yelling her tooth was going to come out.  So we went into the bathroom to check it out and she was wiggling it all over the place.  I told her to just pop it right out of there, and she did.  She was pretty excited, and surprised that there was no blood.  We had been preparing her for what it might be like.

She couldn't wait to eat dinner to see what it felt like, "funny".  And she is lining up Lucky Charms for breakfast (her favorite) to see what that is like with a missing tooth.

She put her tooth in a little jewelry box that Sarah gave her for the tooth fairy.  The tooth fairy already stopped by and left her $2, hope that is a pretty good rate.  Now we just need to get her to save it, she is kind of careless with her money just leaving it all over the place.

We also just happen to have received the Tooth Fairy from Netflix, the movie starring the Rock.  She will probably enjoy watching that this weekend.

Back to School

Well the kids went back to school about 3 weeks ago now.  The end of summer also means the end of the nice weather that we had here.  Back to rain and drizzle, kind of a bummer, I could have used another month of sunshine.  So we booked some tickets to Florida in December for Max's birthday.  Head back to the home of the Mouse for a week to get some sunshine, have some fun, and visit our friends in Florida.

Ella started 1st grade this year, she is back to all day school again.  She is really liking it, she has 2 teachers instead of 1, and they seem to be doing a really good job.  She picked up reading pretty well over the summer and is turning into a bit of a bookworm.  Ella took up running club, I think with all of my running, biking, and going to gym, she has a big interest in working out.  Every Tuesday night, she and a couple of hundred kids just run around a makeshift track at school.  At the completion of every quarter mile lap they get a cube, or a block or something.  Then when they get done, they count their blocks to see how far they went. I guess she ran 2 miles this last Tuesday, that is pretty impressive in my opinion.