Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Pumpkin Day

Last Friday all the 1st graders at Nicholas's school celebrated pumpkin day. Since Nolan doesn't have school on Fridays, he got to join in on the fun.

It started with a pumpkin inspired snack. Eyes, Nose and Mouth are sugar cookies pieces which I put on an orange plate for an eatable jack o' Lantern! The kids loved them. Thanks Pinterest!


Here is Nicholas with 2 of his classmates enjoying the snack.




We then broke into groups for some fun. We weighted and measured our pumpkins including counting the lines it had. We then discovered that pumpkins float in water. They don't sink like we thought! We then cut it open and estimated and counted the seeds. The group then decided on what we wanted our pumpkin face to look like. Ours was a vampire pumpkin which they named Cee-Cee. Each kid got to crave out a piece.





The kids also got mini pumpkins which they colored on to make jack o' lanterns.



The class with the 4 pumpkins they studied and craved!




Monday, October 24, 2011

Pumpkin Patch

I love fall! Football, cool weather, leaves changing colors, and off course our annual trip to Burt's Pumpkin Patch! We headed up there last Tuesday after school and had a wonderful time on the Hayride and picking out our pumpkins!






Now we just have to crave the 2 pumpkins we got!

Monday, October 17, 2011

Alabama Homecoming

Two Saturdays ago, we headed to T-town to cheer on Alabama at the Homecoming game. The tide won 34-0! Roll Tide Roll!

We had a wonderful time. We got to visit with our friends Kara and Ethan, the couple that introduced us and got to stop in and see the daughter of some friends that is a freshman this year.

The boys looked so cute in their Bama gear and houndstooth hats!







Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Baby Genius

While working on math last night with Nicholas, I asked the question of what is 2 + 6? Nolan without hesitation responded with 8! Oh my, we have a baby genius! Before you start calling the news, he missed all the rest :) Oh well, still the cutest little 4 year old ever!