The Rest of October

Yes, it is officially midnight on December 1st and I am posting a blog about October.  That is just the way it goes...  But, there are just a few more pictures I wanted to include before my brain would let me post about more recent events. 

October.  It seems like such a long time ago yet at the same time it feels like we just did all of this:

Playing  in the yard without our winter coats (we did a lot of this in October)...

 Now Jack even gets to help daddy mow the lawn (which we still did in October and in November)...

When not outside enjoying the beautiful fall weather, the boys are most likely doing this (playing on mommy's iPad or mommy's iPhone): 

Jack got his first "official" hair cut right before Halloween.  He really is growing up so fast, and with his new "do" looks like a little boy now--no more "baby-ness" to my baby Jack (sniff, sniff)...  :( 

Big shocker for me--I have taken up running!  This is a picture of Sara, Heather, me and Christine at the "Deca Dash"--my first 5K.  I ran another one in November with Heather, and three of us are doing the "Reindeer Romp" (a 5K to benefit cancer research) next weekend.  Our goal is to do one a month, and work up from there.  As of now, the longest I have ran is 5 miles, but I hope to run a "tough mudder" (10 miles with obstacles) this summer. I will keep you posted! 

Apple Picking

Every Monday morning Sam has a play group with his friends (and Jack gets to tag along for the fun).  There are 5 boys total in the group, and we moms take turns organizing activities.  In October, we met up at Highland Orchards for some apple picking.  The boys had as much fun eating the apples as they did picking them!

Longwood Gardens

We had such beautiful weather in October.  We spent one of the glorious fall afternoons in beautiful Longwood Gardens.  I took the boys here several times when we first moved here, but we hadn't been back in a couple of years.  This was actually Paul's first time visiting the awesome horticultural displays of this amazing place.  As the pictures show, we had a great afternoon!

Halloween Festivities

Halloween with kids is a month-long celebration--it gets tiring!  It is fun, though, and the boys absolutely love it.  For the first time they decided to dress up as something other than a superhero for Halloween this year.  When Max picked this costume I thought it was going to be ugly.  However, once these two cuties tried them on my heart fluttered.  Aren't Mario and "Guigi" adorable?

Max and Sam had a Halloween parade at their preschool...

 

And Super Jack got to dress up for his Romparoo class...

 

 Then we had the MOMS club Halloween party...

And we went on a "hay"ride to a fun Halloween house...

 Where we saw a silly puppet show and got to try on silly hats, masks and a variety of other fun costume accessories.

  

The West Chester Halloween parade was spectacular this year--probably because the weather was GORGEOUS that night...

 

 And last but not least, the event that culminates from all the partying and parading in October: Trick-or-Treating!

 

In the 'hood...

 

Max got really into it this year and was running from house to house ringing doorbells, leaving his brothers in the dust.  Sam just wanted to eat a piece of candy after every stop.  Jack was enjoying the stroll at dusk in his cool costume.  It was a nice way to end the month!