halloween!

Ahhh! Scary carrots! For some reason, our carrots were horribly disfigured. Probably because they weren't watered properly or thinned properly or cared for at all. But at least they still taste carroty. And Kate likes them.

Kate loves to play with the laundry. She pulls clothes over her head and snuggles them. She tries to do it with her blanket too, but the blanket is too heavy and she often falls over.

There is rarely a moment in the day when Kate doesn't have something in her mouth. Or that she does have her hair done.

Colin, Mr. Bear, and the bumblebee costume.

Kate in the super cute hand-me-down overalls.

Beads are one of Kate's favorite chew toys. She is getting two more teeth. I finally noticed that they broke through about a week ago. It explained a lot about her behavior leading up to then.

Also, Kate loves to clap. I have video of it which might make it to the interwebs someday. Also, Kate is sassy.

Also, Nate broke my chair.

I asked Nate to describe this picture. He said, "Google-y eyes." Indeed.

Colin went out to dig in the yard while I got dinner ready. When Nate came home he went out to play with Colin. They were both bent over this way, and they were both wearing red shirts and jeans so they matched, but I didn't feel it was nice to get a picture of Nate looking like this, so you just get Colin.

Those are my shorts.

He liked the pockets.

Friday night we went to the pumpkin patch. There wasn't much to it, but Colin enjoyed himself and it was a quick trip, which Nate and I enjoyed.

Colin picked out his very own pumpkin. (It was getting dark and we didn't want to tramp through the wilderness for a pumpkin.)

While I put Kate to bed Nate and Colin started scooping out the guts.

I drew a face as Colin described what he wanted. Nate did the actual carving.

Ta-da! We're a very talented family, I know.

Saturday morning we went to a little Halloween party, and we stopped at Granny and Papa's on our way home. Colin helped Sam mow the lawn (with Marv's lawnmower). This picture is out of order, by the way.

I made fabulous pumpkin pancakes (colored only, not flavored) with jack-o-lantern faces for breakfast. It's okay if you're a little jealous.

Colin was still proud of his jack-o-lantern on Saturday.

This is the best picture I took of him wearing his costume. Oops. Maybe I'll have to try again today. Since it's actually Halloween today it will still count, right?

And here is Kate in her Thing 1 costume. Nate didn't know what Thing 1 is.

I asked Nate to take pictures while Colin went around to the trunk-or-treat and this is what I got. Nate reported that Colin was more interested in eating his candy than in getting more candy. And the girl in the pretty blue dress is Mary. And the pretty blue dress is my old prom dress.

There was a boy dressed as the Cat in the Hat, and he came over and took a picture with Kate. I have no idea who he is. I don't think he is in our ward.

We also got to go to Caleb's yesterday to play Rockband 3. It was awesome, and Caleb is awesome for sharing. Nate and I really enjoyed it. Sam got really into it as well.