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Meg making Nate hold her ballet library book just right so she could look at it while she danced…

Meg made a handprint "efelant" project at school and told me about the process of making it over and over again… what will we do when we don't have a 3 year old around here for entertainment?!

After dance, she helped me put up our halloween decorations, and to save Witchy's jewelry from getting lost by being removed fifty times a day, I told Meg with a smile that the witch would turn her into a pumpkin if she took her ring and bracelet off.   For the rest of the day she asked me, "She won't really magic me into a pumpkin if I take her ring, right?!"  :)

Carter having an after-school popsicle (after the walk in the heat this was an everyday occurence!) and showing off his fishbowl art project:  

  

We met our just-back-from-the-Carribbean cousins at the farm…

One of my favorite pictures of all time.  We were at Zach's baseball practice far from our house.  Carter in his ever-present helmet, Meg reading her princess magazine from the library, and Emma (with Meg's leg warmers on her arms as the night got chilly) making a Cinderella skirt for Meg as shown in the magazine.  They are such good kids.  

Date night!  

Baseball games in Alpine in beautiful weather with grandparent fans…

The girls tried out their halloween costumes at a neighborhood halloween donut party while Carter was at a birthday party and Zach was at baseball.  

   

Carter all of a sudden decided that he loves football.  He also loves wearing a helmet.  Man, I love that kid.  

We went straight from ballet one day to Target and Meg was starving, so I stopped next door at Panda Express to get her some fried rice.  She had eaten it before and liked it fine, but this time decided she LOVED it.  Now every time we pass a Panda Express she says, "There's the Panda!  I love that place."    

     

We took a quick (windy!) field trip to Wheeler Farm when I taught the letter F for preschool:  

At music class, we sing a song about putting on glasses and looking in a book… there were a few days where Meg took that quite literally while she sang the song over and over…

I proved to Zach that it is possible to smile even when you are doing homework that you hate…

Meg got her first pair of butterfly wings, and she and the neighbor kids spent several afternoons hanging out in their wings… seriously, it was the cutest.  

 Little miss butterfly flew the whole way to the school without a single complaint… I am thinking she should wear the wings when we hike!  :)

We had a monarch butterfly "pet" that hung out on our flowers in the front for weeks!  Meg and I loved watching it!  

 After-school watercolors…

Emma's last soccer game… it was a fun season and she has really improved – both at goalie (which she loves) and on the field!  Also, she is the hardest working player at practice every single week.  

Meg "walking" her dog Butterscotch to pick up the kids after school…

Here are the kiddos after Zach's last primary program… an on-the-ball mother would have managed to get a picture before Zach changed out of his church clothes, but I am not that on-the-ball mother.   Each of the kids said an article of faith for the program and they all did such a great job!  

Just a regular Sunday afternoon…

 Meg and I made an enormous batch of pumpkin muffins!  She was quite the little helper!

And as baseball continued despite the colder temperatures (and at locations so far away we couldn't drop Zach off and go home in between) we had dinner and a movie in the back of the car… I kept wondering why I hadn't thought of this sooner!