October

We've had a busy few weeks.

It started with the pumpkin patch at Theis Farm... If you live in St. Louis and have small kids make sure you do this next year. It's awesome! We got two "baby" pumpkins, ran through the corn maze, played on the slides and adventured through the hay bail tunnels. It was a huge hit.

We made a visit to Boo at the Zoo as well. This was a bit of a disappointment because most of the animals were inside do to the cold. The idea of this is to dress up in your costume, stand in a line that weaves all throughout the zoo and stop at a table every 50 feet to receive a piece of candy. It's a nice idea but for the 10 pieces of candy and the hour we were there, it just didn't seem worth it. Anyways, we met up with some new friends from Brazil which was probably the highlight.

Halloween couldn't have gone better. We stayed at home this year for trick o treating. With B dressed at Jasmine and R sporting B's monkey costume from last year (who says there aren't benefits to having 2 kids in 2 years?) we ventured out for some candy. B did great. She walked right up to the homes and said "trick o treat", held out her bag and then thanked the neighbors as she headed back to the side walk. I was so proud of her. After doing about a dozen homes, we returned to ours and I told B she could help me pass out candy to the kids. We sat on the porch and every time a kid walked up she handed them one piece and told them "trick o treat". I had to keep reminding her that that is what you say when you're the one actually trick o treating. Not when you're handing out candy. Oh well. She agreed to 3 pieces of candy from her bag for the night. Kids were in bed by 8, we got a decent amount of chocolate to eat over the next week and nobody refused sleep due to sugar highs. All in all, success.