Halloween

When can we leave...

Don't you just want to snuggle this puppy

He's ready to go...sorry puppy only watching this year

I love this Tiger, even if he did not want to wear his Tiger head

DRAGON

oh squishy

Even the Tiger loved the Puppy

Get your tail over here!

"When the dog bites, when the bee stings"

these are two of my "favorite things"

Look at this Dragon

We had two dragons and one Tiger

Give me some candy

Done and done

"Let's see if this lady holds out a bowl and tells us to take one. Ya, one handful"

WHOA!

Henry loved this Spider

Can he do it folks?

And he is out...poor little Puppy

A couple doors that I loved

The Spoooky Dads

and still out

Dig in Henry Dig in

The night ended with some M & M's for the boy

and some Extreme Makeover School Edition for mom and dad

(taped at the Oregon School for the Deaf in Salem, OR)

Happy Halloween Gelbrich Family Happy Halloween

"You want to play Halloween? Ya, okay!"

Perfect night. Our monkey was so handsome and did not want to get out of his costume. Henry's highlight was the Langenbachs, Loftis Family, & Reynolds Family coming over and Trick or Treating in our neighborhood.

Henry and Halloween

As a lot of you know, Henry had his surgery on Thursday. He did very well. Everything is fixed and healing well (as far as we can tell). We loved our nurses and PA and of course Dr. Argueso was amazing. The surgery only took an hour and I felt peaceful waiting for the doctor to come out. When I went back to the recovery room after Henry woke up his monkey was dressed as a surgeon--we love the people at St. Joe's! I would have pictures, but Ryan did not want a photo record of the surgery...I can understand.

Thank you for praying, we felt covered. I feel very relieved, it seemed as though I had been holding my breath for the past few months and I can finally exhale. I am thankful for our family and friends who are so faithful to pray and help with Henry during this healing time.

Henry was doing so well that we decided to take him to the Apache Junction Parks and Rec Halloween Carnival. He was very sleepy, but excited to be outside and with his cousins.

My mom's Halloween tradition is to buy enough candy for about 100 trick-or-treaters, but only about 8 show up every year. We don't mind, she always buys the best candy.

My only sadness for Halloween night was not being able to hand out candy with Jodi, a Halloween tradition. Well except for the year Lisa talked me in to shutting off the lights and hiding in the back room, so the trick-or-treaters would not think anyone was home. But Jodi did show up that night and I helped her find all our old candy around the house, mainly the stuff my mom would send for holidays, and hand it out with her.

The Rainbow Room

My favorite part about working in a Preschool is the holiday season--starting with Halloween! Kids love it as well. We are in full swing making black spiders, bats and pumpkins. I am planning a pumpkin patch day where we plant pumpkin seeds and then they "mysteriously" grow into pumpkins in one day! Gotta love two year olds! No really you have to...I tell this to myself everyday as kids are peeing and then playing in it and licking their hands--not kidding. Enjoy our decorations...

Our Calendar...we count everyday. One girl can count pretty high. She says thirteen, fourteen, FIVEteen, sixteen. I thought, that IS the way it should be. Whoever thought up fifteen instead of fiveteen needs to be put in timeout...come on guy (you know it was a man), give the poor kids a break!

A little Candalaria.

They do not really follow it, but we say it everyday anyway.

Spooky Spiders

I know, I know garden is missing the E, but I couldn't find it and I just keep forgetting to make a new one. We made this last week, when we were learning to be kind to our classmates. My question is this about kindness--do kids learn to be kind or do they learn to be mean? Let me know if you find that one out.