More Halloween/Fall Fun

October is such a fun month. Temperatures are cooler and there are so many fun activities going on for a three year old. Can I just tell you I love this age/stage?  I think we are over the terrible two hump, and sailing into adorable town. (Famous last words right?)

Gardner Village- we have taken to Quinn to see the witches the last couple of years. It is always fun, and we also get a ton of cute photos. 

"Cousin" photos- we also like to dress all the dogs and Quinn in Halloween shirts and get some photos. We also visiting Nana at her rehab in Quinn's Halloween clothes. 

Owl story time at the library- Quinn and I just happened upon story time at the library the other day. And the theme was owls. We are so lucky. Quinn LOVED it. I need to be better about checking the library's events. 

Pumpkin Patch at Harmon's- just for fun. 

Scarecrow Festival- Hilary and her family invited us to go to the Scarecrow Festival. It was so much fun, and free!  Quinn loves hanging out with her friends. It is something we will do next year too.

  

Fall pictures in the canyon- we took some informal family photos in the canyon. I love them! 

Black Island Farms- we took Quinn to a corn maze/pumpkin patch/farm for a fall activity. It was about 45 minutes away, but so worth it. We spent about 3.5 hours there. We went on about 5 different slides about 10 times each. We ride a train. Quinn played in a corn box (sand box, but with corn kernels) and jumped in a bounce house. We did the corn maze, and went on a tractor/ hay ride. We even got to pick pumpkins!  It was a fun day!  

Quinn-isms

Some of my favorite Quinn stories- 

#1

Me- Quinn, you're my little bug. 

Q- I am not a bug. I don't get caught in a spider web. Bugs don't eat crackers. 

#2

Me- Quinn don't drink you bath water. It's yucky. 

Q- It's yummy. 

Me- yucky

Q- Mama, you got to try new foods, because they might taste good. 

(Thanks yet again Daniel Tiger.)

#3

After Piper, our 11 year old dog, chewed up her beloved Candyland piece, Marlin. 

Q- Piper chewed Marlin. Marlin is at the doctor getting a check up and new batteries. 

(A new Marlin is on his way.)

#4

I walked into the bathroom to get Q out of the tub after putting away some laundry. 

Q- Mama, mama. Box. Box. 

Me- What? 

Q- What does this spell? 

And she had written BOX in her foam letters on the side of the tub. 

The next night she laid out the letters A-S in the right order, except she did it right to left. 

Then tonight, she spelled BOX on the phone for my mom, and then spelled FOX. And told her, "what the fox say?" RINGNGNGNG....

#5

Quinn took a long nap today after fighting a cough and cold for two weeks now. (Thanks preschool....) 

Q- I am so sick. 

She did look pretty miserable. 

12 for 12 (October)

I suck at 12 for 12. It fell on a busy and fun Saturday, and I still didn't manage to get very many interesting photos.  Oh well, here's to capturing our real life each month. 

1. I lost another pound this week!  Ya-hoo!

2.  Our little family headed to the gluten free expo.  It was so crowded. There were so many good booths and samples, but it was hard to get to any of them. Hopefully, it is in a bigger space next year. 

3. and 4.  Quinn met some princesses and was feeling a little nervous.  

5. and 6. Dalan and Quinn waiting for Quinn's turn in the bounce house. 

7.  Quinn met a friend in the bounce house. She is so friendly.

8.  We found all the summer clothes at Kmart on super clearance. I scored 5 tank tops and 3 dresses for ten bucks. 

9.  Quinn makes animals and other shapes out of her chips. It is her favorite game. 

10.  Dalan and I headed to the Utah game. 

11.  I heard a man and woman "doing it" in the handicap stall in the ladies room.  Then I was going to take a picture of their feet under the stall, but the dude ran out. The woman stayed to wash her hands. I did get a creeper photo of their post-coital embrace in the walkway. 

12.  UTAH WINS!!!!

Circus

We took Quinn to the circus at the end of September. She was so excited and looking forward to seeing the elephants. We had some last minute errands to run that day for the preemie auction and they went faster than expected, so we found ourselves downtown with some time to kill. We popped over to City Creek and took Quinn to the Disney store. She thought we were at Disneyland and she was pleased as punch. 

We walked over to the arena for circus time. Quinn was so excited to eat her giant tub of popcorn. She was really loving the circus until someone sat in front of her and she couldn't see. However, she really enjoyed the first half. She also had a blast playing with her new light up kitty ears during intermission, but then the circus got a little long for her attention span, and she had a hard time sitting until the end. Three year old problems, I tell you. :-). 

Halloween Kick Off, 2013

Halloween is one of the holidays we look forward to around here. Ok, if we are being honest, Quinn and I look forward to all holidays, and Dalan is learning to like them more and more. Yesterday, we kicked off the Halloween season by decorating the house, and pulling out our Halloween clothes.

Quinn loved decorating our front window with clings with Dalan. She has admired it all day today. 

I also bought Quinn and Piper matching bone jammies. A Halloween must in my mind. 

And every year, I like to get a photo of Quinn in a Halloweenie themed shirt. It is so fun to see how she has grown and changed each year. 

Hideous

I have a ton of activities and events to blog about, but I have been feeling too hideous. I got sunburned/windburned last week at the preemie auction, and my lips were destroyed. They look so bad and hurt even worse. It is awful.  I feel self conscious in a way I haven't since I was a teenager. And it was picture week at school. But the pain was even worse. They have been many tears, and sleepless nights. It is awful. 

The good news is I am starting to be in less pain, and they look slightly better. 

I should have taken the rest of the week off of work....

When I woke up on picture day....

Make up and filter magic....

So much pain...

Serious, serious pain.