Breakfast in bed!

One day, while waiting for Evie to wake up and trying to stay out of the way of the housekeepers, Marea and I ate an apple on my bed.  She thought that was pretty cool.  And then I told her about 'breakfast in bed'.  And that we should get daddy to make it for us!  So the following Saturday, he did.  And now, every morning, little lovely crawls into my bed nice and early, and waits...hoping....and finally suggesting, another breakfast in bed!  Unfortunately, it's just too hard for me to pull off with both kids during the week, and not the same anyways, so we haven't done it again.  But I think we'll plant the seed with Gary and see if we can get ourselves another relaxing morning in bed!  Oh, and the menu was, pumpkin pancakes and sliced kiwi.  (It was on halloween, after all!)

And, Evie has a new song around here.  "A do do do, a da da da, is all I want to say to you, A do do do, a da da da, the meaningless that's always true".  She loves it when we sing that to her.  And Marea thinks it's hilarious.    Evies favorite foods right now...beans, beans, the musical fruit!  She just loves any kind of beans.  Black beans, canellini beans, kidney beans, pinto beans...beans!  And she like avocado now, and will gobble up half an avocado.  She loves cheese, my homemade minestrone soup, zucchini, broccoli, berries,  chicken, and the fresh fish we've been enjoying since Gary's fishing trip.  

Marea stayed home from school this week, she had a cold.  We had a great day at home though.  Complete with a giant fort, in which we set up the DVD player so she could watch peter pan, and glow sticks.  She really liked the glow sticks.  And we even made a cut out flower garden for the fort.  Sometimes just being at home, and dropping everything else to just play, all day, is the best remedy.  For all of us. 

Another fun thing we did this week was go to Jump N Jammin.  Marea REALLY liked that place.  It was fun!  A jumpie, a ball shooting pit, and lots of climbing obstacles.  She was telling Gary all about it last night, and everything that they are going to do when they go there!  

Because it's Halloween, it's Halloween....nananananana!

Oh Yo Gabba Gabba, how did you make your way into my house?  And why was your Halloween special so good, we had to watch it over and over again?  Well, I guess it's partially because Evie lights up when she hears the music for that show.  It doesn't hold her attention for very long, but she's definitely interested.  Marea always claims not to like that show, but the Halloween one was just too fun, we all got sucked in. 

So this year I swore off Tanaka Farms pumpkin patch trip, but then I got sucked into the season and decided to take the girls.  And, I won't do it again!!! NO NO NO!!!!  The few days of fall weather tricked me.  But of course on the day we went, it was HOT and DUSTY and STINKY (that petting zoo is so disgusting) !!!!  I wanted to like it, but didn't.  Enough about that. I am breaking it off with T.F.P.P.  Which is easy to do because we discovered the Irvine Park Railroad Pumpkin Patch!  It was super fun. Lots of great stuff for the kids, including a bounce house (which M loved of course), and a haunted house (which M did not love, of course) and a train ride.  It was shady and festive and nice.  

Those pre-halloween, fall-type activities were fun, but the best pumpkin patch night was when we went the Friday night before Halloween to pick out our pumpkins.  It was dark out, and we all went, and had fun running around checking out and choosing pumpkins.  Marea even picked her own. And Evie rolled them around, sat on them, and danced around them.  It was too cute.

Visiting Grandma Irene was fun, too.  I took the girls in their costumes, and Marea decorated a pumpkin for her, with stickers and gluey stuff.  

Marea was a fairy, and Evie was the recycled pig.  Trick or Treating was fun.  We discovered a street in our neighborhood that goes all out with decorating and scaring the kids!  Marea was hesitant at some of the houses, but I helped her, and explained how it was just normal people trying to scare the kids, and that it's okay to feel scared for just a second.  It was hard for her to resist the candy, even though she hasn't eaten much of it.  She just likes the process, I think.  

Holidays are just way more fun with kids!!!