warm days in october - hoping it is not indian summer

 we have had some super warm days in october - super warm meaning they are record breaking which honestly i have no problem with as long as this is not it
when the weather has been good we have made it down to the beach to collect beach glass and sing!!!
Sadie is learning lots of new songs at school - including singing Happy Birthday in Mandarin
sort of crazy to have Sadie teach us Mandarin - but it is working Silas can almost sing the entire song!
As you can see form the pictures Silas's hair is growing -but growing curly more than anything else - and it is a bit crazy but until he starts complaining I have no interest in cutting those curls!
Sadie wants to grow her hair again to be like a princess - but we tell her she is a princess no matter what her hair looks like (damn Disney)....

Date with Sadie and the purple balloons!

Sometimes i get to ditch work and play with the kids - that is about the only thing i can say about school
when they have early release days i get to play!!!!
and i do love to play
so Sadie had an early release day recently and it was wonderful! the day was bright and sunny and warm!
on these days i do nothing but drive to the places Sadie tells me to go - it is her special day to do what ever she wants whenever she wants
this time she wanted to go to the art museum
she continually keeps telling aaron and i that she is going to be a bongo playing artist - so the first thing she does when she comes home from school is change out of her "work" clothes into her art clothes or her princess clothes and she starts to draw or write her book!
so what is it about purple balloons?
the art museum has an exhibit right now - the artist filled a very large room perhaps 800/900 sq feet with purple balloons all the way to the 20 ft ceiling
you walk into the room and are surrounded by balloons it is a very odd feeling but once you let go of the claustrophobic feeling it is so much fun!!!!! (though i did hold onto Sadie really tightly)
we walked around the entire room before sitting outside to eat hot dogs!
it was the best day EVA!

October - time to start celebrating halloween

we started celebrating halloween early this year
the first week of october we got dressed up in our homemade costumes

Sadie "Strawberry ShortCake Princess" - not to be mistaken as strawberry shortcake because there is a princess involved in this
Silas "Superhero Shark Knight" i have no idea where this one came from but this was a challenging costume to try and figure out - once created though it became a fun master piece!
this year i have learned about the glue gun which is important because i fear i will be making halloween costumes for years to come :)

our first adventure was going on a trick or treat hike at the holden arboretum!
it was cold and rainy but we still did it the leaves had just started turning brilliant colors - sugar maples bright red!!pictures always say more than words - so here is the start of our halloween fun!!!