Wow. At first, I thought that I lost some posts. Then I realized that nope, I just haven’t posted in over a month. Whoops! So…here goes the longest catch-up post, ever. We’ve got all the September birthdays, a trip to Six Flags, and more.
We love our back yard toads! This one apparently really wanted inside the house.I took this picture to document that she actually was, in fact, tired. This was about five minutes after she was trying to tell me that she wasn’t sleepy enough to go to bed.Celebrating my birthday. Dinner out and a chocolate cake. 🙂Celebrating Joseph’s birthday. Dinner out and…chocolate cake. If it ain’t broke…but we did also take him and a friend to Six Flags a few days after his birthday.The new clock for my classroom. I had an analog clock by my desk, but wanted one out where the kids could see it. I love the steampunk vibe of this one The gear in the middle rotates with the seconds.It wouldn’t be a trip to Six Flags without a picture here.We were surprised to see Six Flags already decorated for Halloween (and in this case, Dia de los Muertos). I was loving it, though. It’s my favorite holiday!I love all the vibrant colors!Abigail is also a huge fan of Dia de los Muertos. She kept saying everything looked like the movie Coco.There was also some other Halloween stuff. I liked the steampunk aspect even though it was really creepy.Abigail on the Green Lantern ride.The characters were dressed up for Halloween. These happen to be two of her favorite Looney Tunes characters, she she was excited that she could take her picture with them.This was a cool arch to walk through with all of the jack-o’-lanterns.Leaving the park. This is the only picture I have of Joseph from that day because he and his friend went off on their own and would check in with us every couple of hours.Joseph’s friend gave him a used VR set (one that he had before his family upgraded) and I had to document the seemingly mindless wandering. 🙂I love how cozy the house looks when we put the Halloween lights out. Paul also got some solar torches to add to the effect. I think we might need to get some regular ones when we need to take these Halloween/ flickering flame ones down. I really like the effect.She was pretending to be the WWI Flying Ace and Paul was her “engine”.This is a picture of Abigail that my brother shared with me. I think it’s when she had just turned two and we were all at my mom’s house over the holidays.Did you know that preying mantises can fly? I thought they might be able to (and my students definitely DIDN’T know), but right after I snapped this picture, this one spread its wings and took off…which made all the kiddos who were crowded around it shriek. It was pretty funny.Paul’s birthday cheesecake. We had this with friends the weekend before his birthday. When it was his actual birthday, we ate out…and had chocolate cake. 🙂I got a new rolling cart for my room. I was going to take a picture of it to show my friend, but Abigail wanted to be in the picture. 🙂 It was a dress-up day (camouflage day), which is why she’s got Paul’s old desert camo hat on.Paul and I went to see the new Beetlejuice movie. I thought this was a cool picture backdrop; especially since I have a purse that’s inspired by the original movie.It’s hard getting up in the mornings, but at least the sunrises are pretty.I was going to take a picture of my outfit, but Abigail wanted to be a part of it.Another pretty sunrise.I went to wake her up Friday morning and couldn’t help but snap a picture of her. It’s times like these that I can see snippets of the babies they once were.Saturday means teen hang outs……imagination overloads……and dress up fun, of course.This morning, I knew I wanted a dessert for tonight, but also knew that we had some bananas that needed…consumption. So I made brownies and banana bread. 😀
