Fun with the kiddos

We had a great lunch today at "Mama Nicole's," as Ollie refers to her (from his preschool days at her house!) She always puts on the best parties, and the kids had a blast. We had pumpkin bread bowls - I did not know that the grocery stores made bread bowls that look like pumpkin (orange and everything, with a gree stem) - but it makes soup so much more exciting! Don't get the wrong idea, the soup tasted great all on its own, but it was so fun to eat in the pumpkin. We painted pumpkins, played Halloween bingo, and decorated cupcakes to look like monsters. It was really fun to see how each of the different children approached the activities. Oliver was in an "everything" mood, which goes right along with his long attention span. For example, his cupcake ended up having every candy on it, and his pumpkin ended up being painted with every color. Avery named all the facial features as she put the candies on her cupcake - eyes, nose, mouth, ears. She is figuring so much out these days. Oliver's friend Presley is a natural-born picasso - she made two spiders, one a girl and one a boy, out of her cupcakes. All these activities give me the experience of seeing the world through a kid's eyes. And, as I am sure most of you know, the world is so much more fun through the eyes of a child than through an adult's eyes! I highly reccomend putting your "kid-goggles" on this week to enjoy Halloween :)
P.S. The decorating of the cupcakes was so fun the kids had to do it again when Dad got home!!