Kindergarten Halloween Parade

Myles had a Halloween party at school on Friday. At the end of the day they do a Halloween parade so that parents can come and see their kids all dressed up in costume. I took off work early and joined my Mom and Holly to see Myles in the school parade. It was so cute! Myles is dressed up as Obi-Wan Kenobi (a Star Wars character). I didn't tell him that we were coming so he was really surprised! It was cute!
Andrea

Myles is the one in brown, 2 back from the teacher.

Here is my cutie pie Myles (or should I say my handsome Obi-Wan!)

It was cute how surprised he was to see us!

Here is the whole class. Myles is on the far right in the back row.

They of course handed out treats. He is clutching his bag of candy. Like he isn't going to get a ton more tonight! :)

Pumpkin carving for my birthday

On Tuesday, it was my 34th birthday. Yikes! I requested that my birthday evening be filled with family time. So I picked up Subway on the way home for dinner, and then we headed out to get some pumpkins for carving! It was a ton of fun! Myles was thrilled to carve pumpkins since it was something that he wanted to do days ago! So for an hour or more we cut, gutted, and carved our unique pumpkin faces. It was fun! Neither of the kids were interested in digging the guts out with their hands. Holly kept saying "Eew!" Funny little girl. Myles used a pen and designed his own pumpkin face. In the end, Erik had to help him carve it out since he was struggling a little bit.

The evening was a ton of fun with the kids! After they went to bed, Erik and I just watched a movie. It was so so but nice to just hang out.

Hope everyone has had a nice week!
Andrea

Erik & Myles starting in on their pumpkins

Erik helping Myles carve out his design

My cutie pie Holly

Myles trying to carve before Dad had to help.

Holly was poking at her pumpkin with the carving tool after I finished it.

Here is my happy girl with her happy pumpkin!

Myles proudly holding his pumpkin when it was done!

The 3 pumpkins on the right are the ones we carved. The one on the left was the pumpkin that Holly "'carved" at daycare (however I would guess that it was the daycare lady who actually did it!)

Here is what they look like with the glow of the candles!

School Picture

Myles had his Kindergarten pictures a few weeks ago, and they just sent them home last week. I decided to take a picture of the picture, and see if it turns out. Not to shabby! So here is my grown up Kindergarten boy!

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Imagination has no limits

Myles has really been into Football this year. He will watch some on tv (before loosing interest to some toy or chasing after his sister!) and cheer on whatever team Daddy is rooting for. It is really cute to watch! So this evening, after bath time, he decided to make his own football pads out of paper and tape. So he colored on 3 pieces of paper, and asked Erik to tape them on his arms and chest. What a imaginative little kid!

Maybe this is the uniform for Team Johnson!

Let's hope he is always this creative!

Painting Pumpkins

Team Johnson went to a free pumpkin give away this afternoon, only to discover that they were all out of pumpkins. Bummer. So after a free cookie and some hot cider, we ran over to the grocery store and bought 2 pumpkins. After going out to dinner with my Mom, and Brother & Sister-in-law at Panera, we headed home to paint our pumpkins. This occupied the kids for about 30 minutes. They were quiet, they were sweet, and they were happy. So Erik and I were happy! We might have to paint pumpkins every night this fall! :) Now we just have to wait for the paint to dry, and then set them out by the front door. I would highly recommend this activity to anyone with kids!

Holly starting to paint her pumpkin.

Do you think she has a grand plan for her creation? If not, she still had a blast!

Myles said he wanted to paint a Walker (star wars thing) on his pumpkin.

Myles proudly displaying his pumpkin master piece!

I'm beginning to think Holly must be into Abstract art....

Here is a close up of Myles's final product - a Star Wars Walker!

Holly's final product..... uh.... we'll just call it "Autumn Sunset"....

Leaves everywhere!

Friday night got so cold that it snowed. There was a very light layer on the ground (luckily it is to early for the snow to stick around!). But not before it managed to snap off every leaf from our front yard tree! And as you drove through the neighborhood, you couldn't help but notice that most other yards had the same thing. Huge amounts of leaves on the ground that weren't there the day before, and bare trees in the middle if the yard.

On Sunday afternoon, we couldn't ignore them any longer. We bribed Myles with a dollar, and he helped rake and bag 6 large bags of leaves. We didn't get them all, but cleaned up the majority of the leaves in the front yard. I have yet to peek in the back yard to see how many leaves are back there! I think I'll keep my eyes closed for now!

Sunday morning creativity

Sunday morning, Holly was a bit crabby and super slow with eating her oatmeal. So Erik went to Church and Myles went to Sunday School, as I stayed home with Holly. We decided that after breakfast, we would have some fun with Playdough. Most of the summer we find other fun things to do, but once the cold weather is here, playdough is a weekly activity! Holly seemed to enjoy herself this morning. Although she ended up mixing up 3 different colors of playdough all together to make one big blob of pink, green, and purple. That will be her own personal playdough for a few months!