Pre-Halloween

Our neighborhood annual tradition of getting boo'd!  We love it!

 Friday the 13th we woke up to some "spooky" (Logan's word) fog.

 Logan had to bring his pumpkin to Tinkergarten. 

 Went to the Woodlands for a free Hocus Pocus concert by the Houston Symphony! (Also on Friday the 13th)

They had trick or treating, pumpkin decorating, and live music.  What's not to love?

 Logan was loving it!  I was surprised how enthralled he was watching and listening to the concert.

 They played music from different Disney movies; Pirates of the Carribean, Spiderman, Sleeping Beauty, they even narrated to a storytelling of the Headless Horseman.  But our favorite songs played that night were Nightmare before Christmas and Aladdin.  The boys loved it so much they want to go again next year.  I think this is a new tradition!

 Another foggy morning.  This time playing soccer!

 Our local fire station had an open house and since Logan loves firetrucks we stopped by.  The boys learning how to use a fire extinguisher.

 They even let the kids use a real fire hose to put out a (fake) house fire!  This was probably the highlight.

 The theme in preschool for two weeks was pumpkins.  

Learning new words by finding them hidden under the pumpkins!

 Witches night in for me!  Had a great night with my Bunco girls!

 I've been wanting to decorate a pumpkin for the school library since Carson started Kindergarten, but he never wanted too.  I finally convinced Tanner to make one, and instead, it ended up being Carson (the one who has always refused) doing most of it!

 You have to create a pumpkin from a book character.  Guess who he chose?

(Answer: Captain Underpants)

 The final touch, a red cape.

It was also crazy hair/sock day for red ribbon week.

 Logan even got to join in on the fun!

 (love that his teacher takes pictures of him at school and sends them to me!)

 Our pumpkin in the school library.

Tanner is 6!

Tanner turned 6!  My kindergarten boy is getting so big!  He's my little tease, my jokester, my boy who loves potty jokes.  Tanner has a love for life.  He's Mr. social.  Mr. full of endless energy.  The boy with a million funny faces.  My Tan man.  Sure do love him forever and ever!

On the boys birthday, it's a tradition that I bring them lunch from their favorite place and cupcakes for their class.  Since this is Tanner's first year in school, he was so excited for me to come.   Unfortunately, it was a Bad day to come.  They only allow 12 parents in the lunchroom at a time and on this particular day, they had parents teaching to the kindergarteners and first graders for a few hours.  So those parents got in first.  They told me I could only drop off the cupcakes (they are a stickler for the rules).  I was so sad! When I went into the cafeteria Tanner was so excited he ran and gave me a big hug.  When I told him I couldn't stay he burst into tears.  When a teacher asked what was wrong she said she would make room for me on the parent's table so I could eat with him.  Whew!  It almost ruined the day.

Tanner's birthday was on a Friday, and that day was supposed to be an early out day as well (we only get 6 early outs in a year) and I thought how perfect, he'll love the less school, plus we can do his party in the afternoon on his actual birthday!  Well, all early outs ended up getting canceled this year due to missing so much school from Hurricane Harvey.  Bummer.  But we still had his party after school on his birthday anyway.

 This year's theme: Pokemon! 

 When the kids first arrived they just had fun jumping on the trampoline.  We then had pizza.

 Then it was time to get the party started!  The kids created their own Pokemon.

 Tanners:

 Played catch the Charizard.  In which almost all the kids but two magically got it in the right spot. 😂

 Capture team Rocket (the bad guys).  Silly string is always a hit.  

  "gotta catch em all" scavenger hunt.  I stuck pictures of different Pokemon characters throughout the house.

 the kids had a Pokedex and crossed off all the Pokemon they found

 then it was find the Pokeball (like an Easter egg hunt) and the kids got their own Pokeball with a Pokemon character.  The boys were so excited!

 In their goodie bags, all the boys got Pokemon cards that they would trade with each other with.

 and for the finale, a pinata!  It's tradition.

 and it worked out perfect.  All the kids got to hit it and the last kid (Carson) broke it.  It's a favorite.

 I think Tanner unwrapped his presents in record time!

The party was a hit.  Then after all the kids left, to wrap up the night we watched the new Spiderman.  It was a great day!