The Hang-up

We've been hanging out, eating too much Halloween candy and... yeah that sounds about right. (Frozen Snickers bars rule!!) I made up a realistic-sized candy sampling in a ziplock baggie, and proceeded to polish off the chocolate end of "the candy haul" with some help from Caleb. The night was "spooky" for the kids, who were hesitant of any and all Halloween decorations. Kate entertained us with her commentary all night: "That punkin was LOOKIN at me!" "That's a BIG, scary man." (He was a nice old man in reality.) "AAH! Its a GHOST!"

Bruce's birthday is coming up this month, so we've had many different themes and ideas discussed with the ever-creative Bruce-meister. Also, Bruce insists that we should rename he and Clark the Kratt Brothers (a PBS show), and call them "Martin" and "Bro" (he would be Bro). And, if he had been born a ninja, he could beat up all the robbers that try to sneak around. I took this photo last week of his creative hang-up efforts with his Sunday clothes. I guess it was simpler than the way I told him. :)

Kate has been very entertaining lately, insisting that she is "NOT a GIRL! I am just KATE!" I haven't heard the comments that prompt this response, but I'm sure it can be very trying to be the younger sister to two older brothers. She also has decided that her favorite candy from our Halloween exploits is a pink lollipop. (Don't try to give her a root beer flavor. It will be promptly rejected.) There was a "lollipop incident" during a game of Candyland where the Lollipop Princess card was drawn and relenquished with much angst at the end of the game by a certain self-appointed Lollipop Princess. (No picture of that one. It wasn't pretty.)

Clark has been enjoying the fall time and spent a considerable time making this decoration for his door with the fall leaves taped to the tree. He did an excellent job and put in many hours of work on it. I feel bad around this time of year that we don't live where the change of seasons is very apparent. Fall leaves and snow are mostly seen in pictures and I get lots of questions about why we don't have snow, where does it snow and why don't we ever go there to see it.

 

 

We also found out that our new baby will be a girl! So, we are very excited about that. Name suggestions are welcome. I'm a little over halfway along now (the easy half) and gearing up for our pre-baby move to... (we don't know where yet) at the end of January.

Thanks for reading!