50's Day

Nate and Evie love 50's Day at their school! It's how their school celebrates the 50th day of school for the year. Here are a couple pictures:

 Simon didn't participate in 50's Day. :)

Showing off their dance moves!

 This has nothing to do with 50's Day.
I just really love that these two still choose to share the chair! 

Simon is 3!

Sometimes we wonder where in the world Simon came from. He's so different than Nate and Evie. In many ways, Nate and Evie have always been very much alike, so we got in a really good parenting groove with them. Simon is completely throwing our parenting for a loop. Many days I just don't know how to correct his behavior in a way that he'll respond to.

But, he's by far our most sensitive child. He gives the best hugs! He's a fast learner. He wants to be anywhere and everywhere his older brother and sister are, and he wants to do everything they get to do. I definitely feel his pain as the third and youngest child!

He's our Simonster and we love him. He requested an oo-ah cake for his birthday. He still calls Curious George and all monkeys "oo-ah's." I hope that never changes!

Halloween 2015

So. Much. Candy. We live in an older neighborhood, which means trick-or-treating is hit or miss. This year it was mostly miss. But the pro was that the people who were giving out candy were giving it out by the handfuls! Our kids somehow came home with full buckets.

Evie was a ballerina. Nate was one of his favorite book characters - Dink from the A to Z Mysteries series, wearing a skeleton shirt. Simon was a disgruntled construction worker. He refused to be a happy, or even a content, one. :)

We've created a tradition of trick-or-treating with our neighbors and their little boy, Chet. Some of their friends joined this year, and it was great. There's nothing better for parents' nerves than a bunch of hyped up kids running down the middle of the street together!

We carved pumpkins a couple days before. Nate's was a scary face, Simon's was a rocket, and Evie's was a cat with the moon behind it (hers isn't pictured here.)

 A picture of the picture.

 Scary faces.

Here's the whole trick-or-treating crew.