Smell my finger...

I have a funny one to tell on Kylie and Levi. I was in the kitchen when I heard Levi yelling for me from the living room. He complained, "Mom, Kylie told me to smell her finger and so I did. She didn't tell me she had just stuck it in her butt right before that! Ewww, that was gross!"

I asked Kylie why she did that and with a smile she sweetly said, "I don't know." Then I had a talk with Levi. I explained that if anyone asks you to smell their finger (or pull their finger) you should politely decline the offer. :)

You just can't make up stuff like this, eh! Real life at the Edblads.

Halloween

This year the kids were a pirate, a cowboy, one ballerina, and Jesse the Cowgirl from Toy Story. All came from our dress up box or from around the house and didn't cost us a dime. Costumes can get so expensive!

We took the kids to a church here in town and did "trunk or treating" first. There were probably 20 cars with their trunks decorated parked in this church parking lot and kids could come and "trunk or treat" there. It was really fun and the kids enjoyed looking at everyone's trunk and nabbing some loot but ... call me a traditionalist because I think the way we used to celebrate Halloween is still the best way. It was still early when we finished there so we took the kids to another town to "trick or treat" door to door.

It was fun for all of us as Dan and I ran into lots of people we knew. Unlike many other Halloweens, the weather was mild and great for being outside! We returned home around 8 pm after getting some pretty full sacks of candy.

Pumpkin carving extravaganza!

We did it tonight. We carved 4 pumpkins and roasted two batches of pumpkin seeds.

Shelby carved her headless horseman entirely by herself. I can see she has her Dad's artistic flair. Levi and Kylie picked out designs that kept Dan busy for the rest of the night. Macy wanted a regular ole Jack-o-lantern and I could handle that so I helped her carve her pumpkin up.

Much to our delight, this year the pumpkins had many seeds in them. We made one batch of salted seeds and one batch of cinnamon and sugar seeds. They both turned out pretty tasty.

At the end of the evening, we carried them all out onto the porch and lit them.

Levi's magic trick

No tape there, folks! Somehow he just breaths on the spoon and it sticks.

It's snowing...

Really! Actually, not this very moment but it was snowing yesterday during church and they are calling for more flurries today!

It's a bit hard to find others who love snow like I do (Leigh, are you still with me?) but I have 4 little ones that I'm raising the same way!

We tried on our winter coats, snow pants and boots yesterday. We only need one winter coat and 2 pairs of boots - not bad!

We are ready old man winter! Bring on the snow! Lots of it please! :)

Here Turkey, Turkey...

Levi was looking out the front window of our house today and he said, "Mom, there's something weird in our yard." We all ran to the front window to see. We never know what it might be!

There were turkeys right there in our front yard! With the noise and excitement, we scared them and they started to run. I seriously thought about grabbing a gun, ya know, with Thanksgiving just around the corner but then I returned to my right mind and I grabbed the camera instead. By then, they were across the road. We counted 10 of them! Too bad we couldn't have had one on the Thanksgiving table!

It's snowing!

Just kidding. This morning Macy came running into my bedroom. She excitedly announced, "Mama, it's snowing!" I looked out the window because I'm sure it's snowed here this time of year before. A deep frost covered everything in view. I told her that it hadn't snowed but it had frosted overnight.
About ten or so in the morning when the sunshine started to warm the earth, she happened to look out the window and questioned, "Why is all the frosting melting, Mama"?
Aren't kids great! :)