Three Amigos!
Ola!
Caaaaandy!!
This is what happens when you carve pumpkins with Dad and Mom's away!
Noah carved his whole pumpkin himself.
Treats.....
Happy Halloween!
Halloween weeks' art project was a ghostly one! We read Georgie's Halloween and made a scary project to go with it....
The boys cut out trees free-hand and glued them to the black background. Then they drew little faces on white dried lima beans and glued them in the spooky tree. Then they added some falling leaves and a moon...
Jack's...he didn't want too many ghosts.
Noah's...he wanted lots of ghosts!
I've been denying it for a while now, but Sophia has outgrown her crib. She's climbed out of it several times, but the last straw was last night when I went to check on her before I went to bed and couldn't open the door to her room because she had fallen asleep in front of it! She's a busy kid and I've known that since she was a 6 month old fetus, so the crib kind of offered a sort of cage-like function...and this, I liked...a lot. But it's all over now. 
Here's the princess in her new shabbed-out bed...
Night-night, Sissy! Oh, another milestone...where does the time go?
I'm not sure why I do this, but in so many situations, I relate back to children's stories...probably because that's my main form of literature intake. But as I was sitting here thinking about how to relay to bloggerland about my challenging day, I was so vividly reminded of this book...Five Minutes Peace.
PS: I did get 5 minutes after they bebes were asleep, so I took some time for a little creative therapy, which I'll share with you tomorrow....:)
We started with a handful of black walnut shells... (thank you, Gina!)
Then the boys took turns taking whacks at them till they were pretty smashed...
After all that, we soaked some pieces of fabric in the dye for several hours....
Here's how it turned out....nuts, isn't it!! :)
It appears we're not the only ones enjoying the corn shocks!!
With the new "Wild Things" movie out and all the hype about it, we thought we'd jump on board. We've loved this book forever....I think they like it because there's a naughty little boy in it :)
Jack's...yes, I helped with Max's face...Jack was burning out on art!
Noah's project.... 
Our October artist was Henri Rousseau. He was really fun to study with the kids because his paintings are really bright and colorful. He painted lots of jungle animals, which the kids loved. We studied a different painting of his each week, then the boys tried their hands at their own Rousseau. They drew their own jungle animals and added lots of leaves...
Jack's (tiger on the left and giraffe on the right)
Noah's (tiger and a lost hunter!) 
Start with fall colored paints and a light outline of a corn cob shape on some cardstock...
Have them use their sweet little fingers to make the kernels with the paint... 
Use glue dots to stick on corn husks...Iguess you can buy these at craft stores, but we just ripped some off some Indian corn we had decorating the house.
Jack's Corn...
Noah's Corn
I started with some manila "library book pockets" and "check-out cards." (by the way, I would have killed for these as a child, as I played library all the time and had to make my own cards...mom, why didn't you buy me these??!!) OK, what else?? Scraps of super cute school-themed paper and ribbon and string and such....
I covered bottom of the pockets with the paper and used ribbon and string to embellish. Then I matted the cards with scrap paper and added the picture to the card with the kids' info written on it.
Here's the finished product....I love to scrapbook, but I haven't done much of it lately. This just seemed like a quick project that wouldn't take the next 3 months and it sure did feel good to get that pent-up creative energy out!!
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