The Cowgirl in her

Alexa was invited to a birthday party yesterday. It was a cowgirl theme. Now Lex likes to dress up, but I didn't think she had a lot of cowgirl type stuff. She pulled it off though. She dug out a horse skirt, horse shirt, and her Hello Kitty boots. They made vests at the party and each got a hat.

She now has made a special cowgirl section of her dress up stuff. Hee Haw.

Alexa's Homework

Alexa has a dream. Her dream (well one of them) is to have homework. All through kindergarten she waited. Nothing. Not one assignment. Her desire causes Chloe to look at her and say,"Are you crazy? I hate homework." But Alexa dreams on.

"I just want to know what if feels like to have homework," she explains. Well last week, she got her wish. A big one too. Her assigment came home. She had two weeks to make a model of her bedroom. Her class has been studying maps. Her teacher assigned each student to take a small box and recreate their bedroom. Alexa began rifling through the recycling to find materials to work with and assembled a pile. This weekend we put it all together.

She got right to work painting the wall the correct shade of blue.

She created her furniture out of egg cartons, boxes, pompoms, and fabric scraps.

It was assigned as an assisted project with parent help so I helped with the tough cutting and hot glue. She is so excited. It is finished a full five days before it is due.

And later today Chloe decided to make one too, just for fun. Alexa said, "See, Chloe, I told you homework was fun."

Pumpkin Carving

Since we seemed to be on a Halloween roll for the last 24 hours, we went to the pumpkin stand to get pumkins today too. After about twenty minutes of hard exploring, they each settled on a pumkin to get.

 

Theyd rew the faces on first. Alexa gave hers eye lashes. She started out wanting to make hers a scarey face like Chloe, but in the end she doesn't have the heart for it. "Mine is a happy, little pumpkin."

All set for Halloween!

 

Trick-or-Treating on Church Street

Dispite having attended the school party last night the kids still wanted to go to the annual trick-or-treat at the stores on Church Street. I am actually glad to see the costumes get so much use.

The peacock costume for Chloe took some figuring to get right. She was thrilled and people keep commenting on how neat it is. It did come out well. Last night it had some malfunctions, so we reinforced her feathers today before heading down.

Alexa's panda costume was pretty easy to complete. She loves it and keeps describing herself as a fuzzy, little panda bear.

She stayed in character all the way down to Church Street.

Church Street is crowded for this event, but it seems easier to take. You are outside, which helps, so you can step away from the crowd and the air is cooler. The craft table didn't have much of a crowd at all, and it was edible!

Just your average day with a panda and a peacock eating a snack in the park.

We headed home after and they are all set for Wednesday night!

Halloween Party

Last night was the kid's school Halloween party. They wanted to attend and even though costumes were optional, they wanted to wear them. Which pushed up the Halloween costume making by about 5 days. I made it though and we headed out.

The place was really crowded. Really. I tried to get a few pictures but mostly other children kept walking in front of my camera.

There was one really sweet moment where Alexa was afarid to got hrough the giant catdboard box tunnel they had created, so Chloe took her hand and took her through. A sweet touching moment...

and they are blocked by balloons and my inability to get around the crowds to get any closer. Sigh. I promise you it happened people!

The cookie decorating was the best I could do for photos.

We took Alexa's panda suit off so it wouldn't get frosting on it. She looks like she was just in a fight. They had fun though.

Fall

Fall has to be my favorite season. While I don't like to be cold, I love the crisp air of fall. Living in vermont now we have wonderful, colorful falls. Yesterday I had to take the day off to attend the kid's parent teacher conferences. We spent the afternoon after the conferences playing in the leaves at the local park.

We decided to gather up a bunch of leaves and pile them at the end of the slide.

Can you spot the Chloe in the leaves?

The Alexa, the monkey, had to try her skills at climbing before we left.