Halloween!

We started our Halloween festivities by carving the pumpkin a few days before Halloween, James did most of the work and Savannah helped a little with getting the seeds out but wanted to wash her hands pretty quickly, mostly she was interested in eating string cheese

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James sketched out a few ideas and then let Savannah choose which one to carve, I don't remember what the contenders were but we ended up with a house, moon and witch. It's a good thing that James did the carving, if I had been in charge we would've had a lopsided jackolantern face.

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This year Savannah dressed up as Jessie from Toy Story and thanks to Gammie, she had the cutest Jessie costume we've ever seen! Saturday evening after we, ok I, recovered from tailgating for the FL/GA game (thank you ZZ for watching our little Gator girl!) we went to the Halloween party in our neighborhood and Savannah danced the night away and had the best time.

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We decided to skip trick or treating in the neighborhood to attend and volunteer at the Fall Festival at our church which is a HUGE event that the church puts on every year for the community in which it is located. We spied quite a few Jessie's there but none as cute as our little cowgirl. Savannah is still a little young for the crowd and was a little scared but she had a fantastic time in the bounce houses, so much so that she threw a tantrum when her turn was over. I'm sure that the lack of a nap that day helped to contribute to the tantrum. Never underestimate the power of a nap.

Bounce house fun.

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The best family picture we could get and you can see we bribed her with Raisinets.

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Full of energy when we got home!

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Letter N

Sometimes I feel like I don't know my child at all.

Example, for the letter N we made a necklace out of noodles and I thought for sure that she would absolutely love this one because what could be more fun for a two year old than threading a piece of yarn through a noodle and then coloring on the noodles?

Apparently even drinking juice is far more interesting and fun because it took us 2 weeks to finish this one and I'm quite sure that James and I did most of the threading.

I pulled it out several different days thinking that after she'd had a nap or had dinner that she'd be more interested but she never was. 

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Does she not look thrilled?

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I even let her use my coveted Mr. Sketch markers to color on the noodles but she was more interested in drawing on the paper.

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Oh well, we were bound to have one craft that wasn't very exciting.  I had planned to also make a nest but this one took so long that I was ready to move on.  I did teach her what her last name is though and we've been practicing saying her whole name, she doesn't quite have it down yet but I'm sure she will soon.

Letter M

I feel like we've been concentrating on the letter M for a month since we've been moving for that long! We are so ready to have all of our stuff in one house and be unpacked and settled. Most nights we don't sit down to relax until 9:30 which gives us enough time to watch 2 DVR'd (totally a word, right?) shows before I'm fighting to stay awake. We just keep telling ourselves that one day, hopefully sooner rather than later, we'll be able to relax and enjoy our new home instead of unpacking or in James' case - building a fence or painting cabinets.

Eventually (hopefully, maybe??) we'll be settled and then we can take some pictures to show how a little paint, a lot of patience and hard work (and new appliances) can take a kitchen from drab to fab!

Ok, back to the point of this here post...the letter M.

For our first craft we made a marshmallow M, smaller marshmallows would have been a better choice but we had big ones in the pantry so that's what we used. Savannah really enjoyed this one, she did a very good job of covering each of the spots where I'd put glue. It was really cute to watch her do this, she kept smashing the marshmallows onto the paper because she really wanted them to stick but since the glue was wet she was only making it more difficult for herself.

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She also enjoyed eating the marshmallows.

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Since it was a raining and we couldn't play outside, we went ahead and started on the next letter M craft which was making a mailbox. We cut out the pieces, she decorated them and then we taped it together. She's getting very good at drawing circles, up until a couple weeks ago all she could do was scribble but now she makes circles. And her imagination is also developing, if you ask her what she's drawing it ranges from an airplane to the whole family to butterflies.

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Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch

A couple weekends ago we (me, James, Savannah, ZZ and Uncle Andy) visited a somewhat local corn maze and pumpkin patch. Savannah is still a little young for it so she didn't really get into the whole corn maze part but she seemed to enjoy it regardless

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These things are more uncomfortable than they seem!

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Instead of sand boxes they have big plastic tubs, which are probably just above ground pools, filled with corn kernals. Knowing how much she enjoys playing with the colored rice I made for her I figured she would really enjoy the corn...yeah, not so much. It got in her shoes and she was not happy about that.

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After testing out the corn we decided to ride the cow train. At first, before it started moving, she wanted nothing to do with it but I had already wedged myself in that little seat so we were definitely going on a ride. After we got moving she loved it and wanted to go again immediately.

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It was then decided we needed funnel cake and some time on the playground and swings, after which it was finally time for the corn maze. We were a little disappointed with most of the maze, we were taller than the corn and could clearly see the right way to go so there was no real getting lost but towards the end, after we had hit all the checkpoints, things got a little trickier. The corn was thicker and taller and we weren't really paying attention to anything except trying to get some fun pictures so we may or may not have walked in a big circle.

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Is this not the CUTEST dress ever?  Thanks Gammie!

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She was mostly interested in running and encouraging everyone else to run as well.

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We had intended to go on the hayride next and see the cows and horses up close but someone was getting a little restless so we decided to head over to the pumpkin patch. Luckily we were able to get some fantastic pictures before it started pouring down rain, thankfully they had a little shop adjacent to the pumpkin patch that we were able to hang out in while James ran and got the car, what a gentleman!

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My new favorite picture of her.

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Letters J, K and L

We got a little behind on our crafts with the big move but we’re back on track now and all caught up.


I could’ve sworn we did more than one craft for the Letter J but I can’t seem to locate any evidence of more than one so maybe I just thought of doing another. Anyway, for J we made Jello and she was not a fan as evidenced by the photos below…

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So, moving right along to Letter K. We made a kite out of paper and decorated it with sequins. We have a Buzz Lightyear kite to actually fly but it rained ALL weekend long and ever since we’ve had very little wind. Eventually the weather will cooperate and we’ll get to test our kite flying skills.

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For the letter L we collected leaves (unfortunately it started raining just as we started collecting leaves so we didn’t get too many) and then decorated them with glitter. She was a HUGE fan of the glitter! I’m going to have to find a somewhat less messy way for her to apply glitter to things because she was having an absolute blast.

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We also made lollipops, but not in the traditional sense. Melted, boiling sugar plus a toddler doesn’t sound like the best idea so we decided to make marshmallow lollipops. As you can see she thoroughly enjoyed dipping the marshmallows and eating the chocolate off of them, I think she did eventually at a little bit of marshmallow too.

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