Halloween fun

Pirate Meg.

These are the pumpkins we carved with Lars and Dyan over the weekend!  It was a foggy morning so I thought it would look better than this picture turned out...but, not so creepy.  Oh yes, this is our new home for those of you who haven't seen it.  Do you like the hanging bats?
Meg with friends: Julianna, Isabella (mummy), Leana, and Maddie.  They won the race to mummify their friend the fastest!
Today was the parade.  We were late for school due to a silly homework assignment from Meg's 3rd grade teacher....the 13 days of Halloween!  But we made it, apparently we are not the only late comers on Halloween costume day!  The parade was exactly what they always are.  I spent the morning in Meg's class with Kate at their party.  Wow did Kate get some great attention.  She didn't want to leave and even had the boys holding her and carrying her around...which she wasn't too fond of....you know she is a little bit INDEPENDENT!  I checked Meg out of school for lunch since she would only be missing 20 mins of science before school let out.  Her teacher didn't think she would be missing anything.  The kids chose to eat at....McDonalds!!!  Oh what fun!  We later watched a movie and popped popcorn all together.  We have so much fun together!

Halloween parties

This is Sam with his teacher.  "I like Mrs Cronin because she teaches me good stuff, like reading and writing."


This was a fun day, I was able to work in Meg and Sam's classes today.  Sam had his Halloween party today without costumes.  I think his teacher has done this before.  I helped with the Monster Mash freeze dance.  Sam's favorite part of the party was the food.  It was so great to watch how skillful his teacher is with her class.  She is very impressive!  The kids are darling to watch.  It was fun to watch her read them a story at the end of class.  

Meg's teacher cracks me up.  I always laugh whenever I go in there.  I just couldn't imagine working with so many kids these ages and expecting them to sit still and listen.  It is all I can do to get my three to listen to me for 3 minutes or less!  I have fun watching how my kids are with their peers and teachers.  

Tomorrow is a big half day at school.  It begins with a school Halloween costume parade, then I'm going with Kate to Meg's class party and then we are all eating with Meg at the school for lunch.   After lunch we will go home.  Meg and Sam both have the day off of school on Friday so I think we will make Halloween cookies(:  Meg will get to see Kate's dance class too.  I think they will both enjoy that. 

Fall time.

I love this little girl!

I wanted to get a family pic of the kids up the canyon, but Kate fell asleep in the car so Sam and Meg are together on an old bridge over a dry creek.  This is the canyon road that I frequent when I go on my bike rides.  It is call Kilcare.  A scary thought: a pregnant woman in tight biking spandex...my girlfriend Judy promises me that you can't tell when I'm bent over.  I'm sure she is just being nice!  This is a beautiful place that reminds me of home.  Changing leaves and winding, narrow canyon roads.  It is also very close to  our home so fun to visit to "get away."

Ballet and Tap for Kate

Have you seen anything cuter than a group of 3 year old little girls all dressed in pink trying to tap dance? This was Kate's first day of class, I think she did great!

The Johnson's week in review.

At great encouragement from my dear friend Rachel I am starting this blog.  I guess living by Silicon Valley and away from dear family and friends are some pretty compelling reasons to try to keep in touch the e-way.

This week Erik took the kids shopping for mommy's birthday and Kate decided that she needed to hide under the pants.  Erik had the whole store looking for her.  One of the workers at Target finally found her.  She seemed to think that was an okay thing to do when I later asked her about it.

Sam has decided that he rides his bike about "20" and whenever I am driving he asks me to drive 20 so he can compare the speed to what he thinks he can ride.  He also tells me he can run "about 18."  He just told me that he has learned how to write "almost all of his letters" which is great since fine motor skills are not his favorite thing to do(:

Meg is in the school play about Paul Bunyon and Big Blue his ox.  She has endless homework and recently visited a space museum with huge telescopes.  Her teacher's mother used to work for NASA so I think she'll get a good background in science this year!

Kate's preschool pumpkin patch outing.

Kate was so mad at me after I took this picture that she threw down the pumpkin and screamed, "don't take my picture!!!"  The only reason that I have the picture of us together is because she would allow her teacher Miss Lauren to take her pictures.  (She fell asleep on the drive over to the pumpkin patch).

Kate and mommy at the preschool pumpkin patch visit.