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For many years I always said spring was my favorite season, because my birthday is all after all in the spring and who doesn't like celebrating a good birthday (ha ha), but now if asked the question I would say Fall. (And I am sometimes asked this question as I do have a four year old). I like the cool but not cold weather, I like the fires and pretty colors, I really like the start of the fall lineup on tv (I'm a drama queen, what can I say), Jay loves the start of football season, and we all love apples, pumpkins, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Joseph in particular really goes crazy over Halloween. Costumes, Decorations, Treats, the whole works. Walking or driving around to look for cool or scary or festive houses is now part of our daily routine. He's also a bit of an apple fanatic, eats them almost every day and yesterday he showed us the proper way to pick an apple off the tree (he learned at school). Hannah and Leah also picked their own and seemed to enjoy doing so. Though they didn't like the wind so much, as while it was sunny it was a very blustery day (as Joseph and Winnie the Pooh like to say). This year I also very much like fall because it's the end of a somewhat crazy busy period of our lives and we are now back to normal (whatever that is!) and getting to do fun stuff, relax, and spend time with family while enjoying the new house that no longer has any gross carpet, leaky roof, or crazy colors. (well, except in the dining room which is covered with two very unflattering patterns of wallpaper as pictured in the prior birthday posting. That will be our winter project!)
The girls frequently wake up before Joseph and wander their way into his room through the bathroom, sometimes landing in his bed saying "Jo Jo sleeping" or "Jo Jo wake UP". Though in this particular scene we had already changed the girls before they went running over and crawled into bed with him. Joseph's room has blue walls (with a hint of grey) and new dinosaur bedding that he had a hand in picking out. The orange T-Rex (and sale price) sealed the deal.
I think this may be the longest I've ever gone without posting something....though I have been taking pictures all the while. I am after all, still me. And the kids are, still quite cute. Hannah in fact knows how to cheese for the camera, and will ham it up when given the opportunity, whereas Leah will turn and run away and refuse to look in your direction when the photo snapping device appears. Joseph, well he could go either way. Sometimes he likes to make all kinds of different faces and then review them himself in the viewer. He hasn't started approving his own photos yet, so for now I still have control. He took some pictures with the camera at school of his friends, and so far he's having a good time with 4K (they call it kindergarten, some might call it preschool). He learned about apples and had some fall homework where he had to cut out his own apple on paper and then color it, and then the class went to an apple orchard to learn about the types of different apples and pick their own from a tree. This past weekend he had to draw a bat and come up with an interesting bat fact to share with his class (he told his friends that bats eat mosquitoes, and I in turn learned how to spell the word mosquitoes) The girls have been getting some assignments too and I have to say, they are doing a good job at introducing us slowly to this homework concept but it causes just a bit of fear of what is to come. Joseph can now zip up some of his coats and the girls can both put theirs on (and you must let them do it by themselves or brace yourselves for quite a scene, they are both quite independent). When Hannah does it she then shouts, "I did it, I did it!" and Leah sometimes will clap and say "Yea". The girls have the same reaction when they go potty. They aren't doing it all the time, and we're not really able to keep up with it, but they practice at daycare quite a bit. It's possible that underwear is in our future. Twin beds are also in our future, but we haven't gotten around to that yet. As you can see, the girls crib mattresses are on the floor in their room and that's what we've been using ever since our little escapee (Leah) started treating the crib like a playground jungle gym. And as it turns out, she just likes to escape. She frequently makes appearances long after her bedtime, to the point where Joseph now says as part of his bedtime routine "but I'm hungry and thirsty, don't let Rosco in here, watch for Leah, and I love you". We have found Leah in Joseph's room on several evenings, or noticed her head poking around the corner of his doorway with what appears to be a smirk, and have also had Joseph get out of bed several times to alert us to the wandering girl. Hannah however sleeps through all of this, and lays quietly in bed after being tucked in for the night. Then in the morning you find them either giggling together on one of their mattresses covered in blankets, or a few times we've found them in Joseph's room attempting to wake him up. The three of them do enjoy each other's company...most of the time.
Halloween is a holiday that tops the favorite list for just about every member of the Conway family (we neglected to dress up Rosco this year). Jay had two costumes planned, one for manning the door and passing out treats and one for the party we were going to on Saturday night. (Scary guy at the door and Schlitz Boy for the party....friends were Blatz Man and Strohs Guy and I was one of the Three Blind Mice) For the house, Jay had also planned an elaborate setup with a fog machine, strobe light, and sound effects but alas, the fog machine I bought on clearance at the end of last year worked for all of 5 seconds, so we had to miss out on that effect. As you can see, folks get pretty into decorating around here and we are no different (we'll need to stock up for next year!). The kids enjoyed trick or treating on Friday night in our old neighborhood (Joseph exclaimed "Trick or Treat.....This used to be my house! at our former doorstep on 75th Street) and Saturday night in our new neighborhood. We did have quite a "trick" on Friday night when Joseph went over to touch one of the cool decorations and then came to find out that it was a real monster. (person in costume of course) He likes to scope out all the cool monsters and graveyards and spiderwebs so just about every day this month we've either taken a drive or a walk past newly decorated lawns and favorite scenes around town. The girls are starting to enjoy things as well, and this year Hannah really mastered yelling "Trick or Treat" for the camera. She's a bit quieter at the doors and both girls still struggle a little with keeping up and walking up all the stairs around town. Leah was perfectly content to sit in the wagon and try to get into all of her candy. Their care bear costumes were a big hit, though we did have to shove Hannah's head into the hood as it seems that extra 1/2 inch made her almost too tall for the costume. Joseph chose his mummy for nighttime trick or treating but was batman during the day at school on Friday. He'll be dressing up tomorrow too. I think I'll just wear something orange with some festive socks.
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