More Halloween fun!

We have been enjoying lots of crafting for halloween with some fun ideas from pinterest as well as traditional pumpkin carving and making ghosts (my brothers and I loved making these as children!)
Here is Kaiden working on our ghosts and hanging them from our tree

We love carving pumpkins together every year and this year Kaiden chose his own pumpkin and design. He went with a traditional pumpkin face with just one tooth :) Geoff went with the Son's of Anarchy logo and I decided to go with "puss in boots" He is Kaiden hard at work cleaning his pumpkin and our finished pumpkins:

Avarie and I attend a "Mother Goose" song group on Friday's while Kaiden is in preschool. This past week was a halloween theme so here is Av in her Dragonfly costume :)

Kaiden's preschool class tomorrow is a Halloween party so we decided to make a special treat for him to bring. We went with "spiderpops" made with pipecleaners, googly ears and a lollipop :)

Milestone Mania!

I haven't updated in a bit about all of the milestones that Av has been reaching! She has been crawling for about a month now and Friday night pulled herself up to the couch! She has now been attempting to move along the couch while standing there :) She  has tried a lot of new food..some favs include sweet potatoes, carrots, chicken, turkey, applesauce, pears, toast. She is not very impressed with Peas, avocado and raspberry thus far. She loves to feed herself so we put a lot of food on her tray and she has a great time! She has been babbling away mainly with Da Da Da, Ba, Ba, Ba and Pa, Pa, Pa. Yesterday she was dancing up a storm and has been waving and occasionally clapping :) Here is a photo of her new favourite thing to do..stand!

Homemade costume #2

Kaiden asked if I would make him an angry bird costume; so I thought I would give it a try. We recycled some stuff from around the house, starting with an old play tent of Kaiden's. We cut the wire frame out of it to use to from our angry bird.

We then used some leftover under-lay from our carpet to cover the wire and fluff up the costume. We found an old red blanket in our basement for the outside of the bird (the shape suits the yellow angry bird a bit better but we didn't have a yellow blanket so it is sort of a combo bird). We used felt for the mouth and foam paper for the eyes, chin and eyebrows.

All in all it didn't turn out too bad and Kaiden was pleased. Here he is trying it on:

Halloween fun!

Kaiden is loving all the halloween preparations and has been asking daily to add more decorations to the house. Here are some outside decorations and a few more we have added to the inside
Kaiden wanted the house to look haunted so we bought some black bristol board and cut out shapes to make eyes and a carved pumpking and covered the cutout with tissue paper and streamers. Here is our House with Eyes and pumpkin in windows and pumpking light display:

We also decided to make a few costumes as Kaiden has a halloween party at school as well as trick or treating so we started with making him a Road costume and tomorrow are going to tackle an angry bird costume (stay tuned!) Here is the before and after of Kaiden's new Road costume (he ran to Erica and Kevin's wearing it and shouted "the road is here!" lol

Family photo shoot

On Thanksgiving day we met up with the lovely and talented Bryn Robinson to have some family photos done. As usual she did some amazing work and we had a chaotic but fun afternoon. You can see the finished product Here ;) If looking for a photographer, you have found a great one! She comes highly recommended and my living room walls could be a portfolio for her! If you would like her info feel free to contact me :)

Giving Thanks

Often we take for granted all that we have and although this weekend highlights these things..we try to teach Kaiden about them all the time. We spent the past few days really trying to explain to Kaiden how lucky we are to have as many friends and loved ones as we do and memories of those that we have lost. We also tried to teach him that we are so lucky to have a beautiful home and food to eat. We showed him countries where children are not as fortunate as him; in order to teach him about being really thankful. Our beautiful smart little boy soaked it all in and said he would like to take a plane to those countries to give those children his toys <3