Super Peter and the Ballerina

I've never been a huge Halloween fan.  But Mike kept telling me that its such a fun kids holiday and that I needed to get into it.  It turned out to be A LOT of fun (and i LOVE family time, family activities!)

We carved our pumpkin first....Peter wasn't a big fan of the insides of the pumpkin.  This pic is the only time he went near the pulp.

 Lily was a little more into it.  :)  

Remember how we all have such affection for Mike?  Well, a spontaneous hug from Lily :)

Peter enjoyed the face carving a little more :)

 dives into Daddy's lap!!

And our little pumpkins are all dressed and ready to head out.

We did a few walks up and down the sidewalk before we got it together...

sweet Pete looking out for his "Lee-Bug"

 I love it that they both have such gender specific costumes :)

Joy made Peter's cape for him for last Christmas.  Yes, I took credit for it to one of my neighbors that I'd never met ;)  I did come of with the rest of it so that counts, right?!

Lily's little tutu is the one I made for her birthday... keeping it simple!!

 she is so precious!

heading to the next door neighbor's...

 Peter was so cute in his mask!!

 and this may be one of my new fave pics!

 flying practice after we got home...

 what a cute ballerina butt!

 SUPER PETER!!!!!!

she can climb!

Lily can officially climb up the steps of the playset (Peter or I always stand behind her).  She is so pleased with herself that she can do something her big bro can do.  

She does the little loop of down the slide, walk around to the steps...

 ....up the steps (blurry but her smile and expression are too, too cute! can't you see the happiness!)

...then down the slide.

She and I either go down together or I *carefully, slowly* let her slide down on her own.

She seriously gives me a heart attack *every* time she gets to the top of the steps b/c she thinks she can take off across to the front so either I have to a)quickly get my much larger body up onto the playset or b)*run* around to the front so I can block her before she fearlessly goes for the slide.  

So I generally have 12 heart attacks whenever we play out there!

I'm trying to get Peter on board with looking out for her but we aren't fully there yet at 3.2 years old ;)

playing down below

 they are too cute together!

PAW!

Paw came for a quick 45 min visit last week.  We had a pizza dinner outside- we were all happy to see our sweet Paw & get some hugs!

Recent Eats

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Preschool Punkins

This will be my blog cram session.  

Peter's preschool class went to the pumpkin patch recently.  Peter was fascinated with the yi-yo's (tractors)... can you tell by his expression in this one... he is staring at one in the distance giving others a hay ride.

 This is the pumpkin he chose...

 Attempting pics with my babes...

 my little GQ model- isn't he handsome?!

 Our hayride was PACKED- I am sure we set a record.  Lily and I were hanging on the back.  

Peter got to sit in his teacher's lap :)!

(a cute thing about Peter is that whenever we tell him he is going to school or to church, he always asks "what's my teacher's name?" even tho he totally knows the answer & loves his teacher.  I think its b/c we told him so many times early on about his teacher and listening well, obeying, etc.  And maybe b/c he has a different teacher for Wellspring and SS.  Its cute.)

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 At the end of the morning there, Peter found this wagon and took Lily for rides in it- its was super sweet of him.

 Then I pulled both of them :)

 And Lily got a "big hug", then we headed home :)

Most exciting news!

We are going to be an aunt and uncle on the Dennis side!!  Remember this exciting weekend?  Well, the best news that weekend was that Jessica and John are expecting their first baby in April.  We are beyond excited.  Peter keeps talking about wanting to "hold the baby", so I know Lily will be relieved ;).
Jessica's parents were in L'ville for the weekend.  We were all sitting around after a busy day the fall festival at M&D's church.  Jessica came in and handed Mom a photo album.  I thought it was sorta wierd b/c there wasn't a big recent event to share pics of.  Then it CLICKED in my head.  I jumped out of the chair with excitement!  Of course, my parents are beyond thrilled, as are we!  Congrats J&J... Praise God from whom all blessings flow!  At everyone's insisting, they have started a blog too :).  We love you, John, Jessica, and Baby J-squared!