Halloween Fun

Super Girl at our 2010 Babies Club last week

A bag full of candy from the candy hunt

Reagan and Tasha

Tasha and Greyson

All the little kids

Stroller Strides Play Date on Halloween

  UCLA Cheerleader

 

Visiting Daddy at the office

Halloween Night:

Back in her Super Girl costume

Going trick-or-treating

Super Girl and Captain America

Waiting for the kids to arrive

Natasha had a great Halloween this year.  We had a nice celebration with our babies group last week, where Natasha got to sport her Super Girl costume for thew first time.  All the kids looked so adorable.  And then on Halloween morning we had a park play date after Stroller Strides and Natasha got to wear her second Halloween costume... yes, a second, but her UCLA Cheerleader dress will be worn again throughout the year.  I knew she was going to get dirty at the park and it was going to be a busy day, so I decided to have her wear the cheerleader costume earlier in the day and change into the Super Girl costume for night.  And I was right, she got pretty filthy at the park, but she was still super cute when we went to visit Zac at his office.  All his co-workers loved her costume.

Natasha and I have been going every night on a walk around the neighborhood leading up to Halloween.  She just loves all the Halloween decorations (Christmas will be super fun this year).  I think this got her more and more excited (and confident) about trick-or-treating this year.  And on Halloween night, Natasha did an awesome job with knocking on our neighbor's doors, saying "trick-or-treat," and saying "thank you" after receiving a treat.  She would then run towards us and say "on to the next house!"  It was so cute to watch.  But, we think she had the most fun answering our door for the trick-or-treaters.  Natasha loved seeing all the kids and their costumes and she did a great job helping pass out candy.  Good thing Grandma was here to help, because if we just left it up to Natasha, she would have invited everyone in for a party.  She was constantly asking what their names were and what they were dressed up as.  We get bombarded with kids every and this year was no different.  Our doorbell rang every two minutes for about two hours... it was crazy.  I can't wait for next year, when Nikolaus can get in on all the fun spirit in our neighborhood.  We hope everyone had a Happy Halloween, because we sure did!

Tasha Tells It All

Here are Tasha's latest ramblings...

Tasha: Who's in there? (pointing to my belly)
Me: Who is in there?
Tasha: Nikolaus, he's my baby brother!  Can I say hi to him?
Me: Yes.
Tasha: Hi Nikolaus.  I don't have a baby in my belly, just food.  There is hot dog, ketchup, milk, cereal...

Tasha: Where are my keys?
Me: I don't know.
Tasha: You want to ask me?
Me: Where are your keys, Natasha?
Tasha: I lost them (obviously)

In the morning before I get out of bed, Natasha turns on the radio and dresses me in my necklaces and bracelets:
Tasha: I need to turn the music on so we can dance.  Don't worry mommy, it will be fun!

In the car, listening to the radio, when Alex Clare's "Too Close" comes on:
Tasha: This is my song!  And it feels like I am just too close to love you...
She cracks me up! 

And some fun photos from this month:

 Helping mommy make pizza

 Enjoying a cupcake from my shower 

(a separate blog entry to come soon about that event)

 What a silly monkey!

  Wearing daddy's Fergus Falls Wrestling jacket

 My two scary monkeys goofing around

 

Visiting baby Brooks a week after his surgery

 Look at that concentration

Piano playing cousins

Stay tuned for Halloween pictures later this week.  Have a safe and fun Halloween!

Pumpkins!

 Irvine Regional Park

 The Pumpkin Patch

 Olivia and Natasha having fun with the cut-outs

 My little piggy

     Giddy up!

 

        

 Tasha is a witch

 Now she is a cat

 So many pumpkins

 Riding the train... she loves the tunnel at the end.

 Mommy and Tasha on the train

 Picking a pumpkin before we leave

Perfect Tasha size pumpkin.

Today we met some of our friends at the Irvine Regional Park Pumpkin Patch.  We had a great time walking around and seeing all the pumpkins.  They also have a lot of fun activities for kids of all ages.  The weather was great for this pregnant mama.  It's starting to feel more and more like fall.  Although the heat is supposed to return next week... blah!  Anyways, we will be returning to this pumpkin patch at the end of the month with our preschool class.  I see many more train rides in my future!

Tasha Tells It All

Here are some of Tasha's tales from last month:

Tasha: I want to get this party started!  (What can we say, she enjoys having people over for our tailgate parties)

Tasha: Red light!  Stop like a statue... got it! Okay!

Tasha: Oh man, we forgot my.... sunglasses!
                                                     water!
                                                     milk!
                                                     DVDV player (and no that is not a typo)

Tasha: This is my buddy, dad.  And this is my friend, mommy.

Tasha: Where did we buy this?  You paid for it?  (Just for the record, I have never shop lifted in my life.  I guess she is just keeping me honest)

Tasha: (marching into our bedroom in a very serious tone) Do NOT put this book in my big girl room.  Let's keep it in the toy chest.

Me: Will you help mommy clean up your kitchen?
Tasha: Yes, because Kiki made a mess (already blaming it on someone else).

Tasha: I want to do my football picks (apparently you are never too young to do football picks in the Larson household.  And for those of you who want to know, she is not in last place... not winning either)

And here are some photos from this past weekend:

 Brooks likes our tailgate parties too!

   Everybody loves the bounce house

 Brooks was upset that CU lost to UCLA (Zac was happy though)

Swimming with Kiki: