Saturday 31 October 2009

Halloween Party Fun!

We have been meeting up with some other moms from our ward on Friday mornings, so we decided to host a Halloween party. Teigan came to sleep over Thursday night and we had so much fun getting things ready. This lot is such a bunch of characters. It amazes me how little 2 and 3 year olds can already have such distinct personalities!


Eating the vegetable kitty!! Can you believe that the little girl sitting next to Katya is only 2?!


The carved pumpkin madness! In the garage with the light off. Good thing Martin is a quick thinker, I couldn't work out how to show them off properly to the kids in the middle of the day!


Teigan, Poppy, Katya, Ollie, and Eliza

Martin helping Joel to carve his pumpkin. Joel is so cute and such a little individual. He kept poking me in tummy to get my attention the whole day!




Teigan and Katya posing as witch princesses.

Oliver looks like he has a bad case of acne, it is supposed to be a pirate beard. Here he is a witch pirate. He wasn't really into dressing up! He mostly just wanted to wear his pirate wellie boots.




The proud creators of the scary vegetable cat! I would like to take credit for the creativity behind it, but alas I found it online!





Hello Vegetable Crudite Cat with a hummus head!


Teigand and Katya assembling the critter!


Oliver mostly chewed up pieces of veg and then spit them out, he didn't really want to eat them, but they looked so pretty and he knows you're supposed to eat them. Yes, Hank, he still has his dummy in his mouth. He doesn't need it, I need him to have it! Someone gave me a really good idea to cure him of it though. Collect all your dummies, I think we have 5 on the go now, and have your child put them into a build-a-bear stuffed toy themselves and they will have a "dummy toy" to sleep with. I am worried Ollie would find a way to tear through to his beloved "ummie" if he knew it was actually inside. I promise we will be done with dummies before Hank, Leah, and Sammy come to visit, you can hold me to it!








Sunday 4 October 2009

Conkers Conkers Conkers!!!

Autumn in England means cool weather, leaves falling, Hallow's Eve, and Bonfire night to many. But to Katya and Ollie Ward it mainly means CONKERS! Yes thanks to Nanny and Daddan we have exactly 239 conkers, 4 pine cones and a few acorns. What do we do with them you say? We count them, arrange them in geometrical shapes, pour them from container to container, throw them, attempt to eat them (if we are Oliver), and even do dances around them (thanks to Katya's friend Joel for the inspiration!). They are really called Horsechestnuts and are not the edible "roasting on a fire" type. But nevertheless they provide hours of free fun!


Ollie sitting in the ring of conkers! He mostly destroys Katya's careful creations!

All 239 of them!


Thumbs up for conkers!!!