Brooke, This Post is for You

First of all, feel free to plagiarize this post in it's entirety if you are too tired to blog tonight. My little gift to you. Or maybe Amy will do it for you.

Second, I thought you might like to know what your girls were up to today. 

 

Lucy had a good day at school.  No homework, which we were both excited about.  Either that or her homework folder is lost somewhere at Sarah's, Teri's, Summer's, Natalie's or Sharon's house. She went right to the sand box when she got to my house.  Then she was a great helper at the grocery store where we ran to get something for lunch (she chose her "favorite" pizza--Totino's with pepperoni that she thought was bacon--I wasn't about to tell her any different) and pumpkins to carve later before we picked up Abbi and Justin from preschool.

Abbi had a fabulous time at Saylor's Halloween party.  She dressed as Belle and undressed in bits and pieces all the way back to my house. Turns out glass slippers, while beautiful and fashionable, are not all that practical for long (or short) walks anywhere.  Once she freed herself from those she was able to get back to her usual comfortable pace (a run).

They spent most of the rest of the afternoon running from the sandbox to the swing set playing Alvin and The Chipmunks.  When Grace got home from school, Lucy was quickly enraptured by her and Grace was all too happy to lead the girls around keeping them busy with things like blowing bubbles, "flying" on the swing and making movies on Webkinz.

Dinner was homemade chicken noodle soup and cornbread which they ate ravenously. All that running around, I'm thinking. That and being too busy for snacks all afternoon. 

After dinner we had family night where we carved pumpkins. The girls were a little hesitant to stick their hands into the goopy mess to clean out the pumpkins, but they both did some (Lucy cleaned almost all of her pumpkin herself!).  Abbi requested a "happy face" on her pumpkin and Lucy (surprise!) asked for a "happy princess". I think she had in mind an entire princess in full ball gown on the pumpkin like the one that you stenciled on last Halloween, but once she saw it all lit up she decided it wasn't half bad. (She looks a bit strained in the photo, but we were having lots of fun. You can tell by the ring of chocolate around her mouth).  We lit the jack-o-lanterns and put them on the window sill for Andy to see when he gets home from work.

That first photo there was just in case you'd been missing that scene in your basement.  There's no place like home.  See you soon!  And, of course, your girls can't wait.  I was told at least three times that "Mom is coming home tomorrow!"