A Rite of Passage

I guess it's just something kids do. At least my kids. Caroline has gotten so pen and crayon happy, there's not a room in the house that hasn't been drawn on. Literally every room has some of Caroline's "art". I thought it was kinda funny when I was looking through pictures the other day, that every one of my kids has colored on themselves. I don't remember Ethan coloring on the walls, but he definitely colored on himself, with black pen. Peyton was supposed to be watching him!

Riley drew on walls, as well as herself. She held a crayon to the wall while she was walking down the stairs in our old house, that was a pretty picture. Here, she colored on her nose with a green and purple marker. This was the best picture I got of her. She was ashamed that she did it after I caught her, and she was covering her nose for most of the pictures.

Caroline is our resident artist right now. She loves to color on herself. I don't know why. I guess for her it's because she knows she's not supposed to, and she loves to do everything she knows she's not supposed to do. She's really testing us right now. I love how she put on her pouty face for this picture. She was smiling until I pulled out the camera and then she put on that face. She always keeps us laughing, even when we should be stern.

Halloween

Warning- Lots of pictures ahead

Here are the kiddos in their Halloween Clothes, they didn't cooperate very well for pictures today. Caroline kept looking away from the camera, so I asked her where her pretty face was, this was her answer, "wite heya" translation right here.



Ethan and Riley look so nice and Caroline has her little demon face going on.Here are the girls in Peyton's new truck on the way to McAlister's for dinner before trick-or-treating. I took a picture of Ethan too, but his eyes were closed. Caroline was so foul, she hadn't had a nap all day. She fell asleep in the truck on the way there. New truck you ask, I'll post about that tomorrow. Ethan and Riley standing nicely for a picture before going to get some candy. We only went to 2 houses. First off, our neighborhood still hasn't really filled in yet, and second, it was cold! We went to the model home to see the realtor before we left for dinner.All 3 standing pretty nicely for pictures!
Ethan the Bat! Isn't he cute! He had fun flying around the house scaring the girls.
Riley is a Princess Fairy, I mean Fairy Princess. There's a difference people! She corrected me real fast when I said Princess Fairy. She pranced around all night in her costume.
"I'm a fairy princess and I like to do ballet!"

Caroline is Little Red Riding Hood. Apparently the hood gave her super speed, she started running as soon as I put it on her, she ran to the model home and all around our house. I told her she was Little Red Running Hood. I could barely get her to stand still long enough to get a picture. She looks so innocent in this picture, oh if you only knew!


Since we didn't hit a lot of houses, you can imagine that the kids didn't have very much candy in their baskets, so Peyton had the wise idea to run to Walgreen's and get some candy. He came out with 2 huge bags full of bags of candy, I think we now have enough candy to last us until next Halloween!