I Love a Book Parade

Today was BME's I Love a Book Parade. The kindergarten students dress up like a storybook character, first graders make storyboards and second graders make character masks. They then parade around the school for the 3-5 students and their parents. Joo decided to be the girl from Pinkilicious, her favorite book. In the book, the girl turns pink from eating too many pink cupcakes so Joo wore a pink outfit with pink tights, pink fairy wings, a pink crown and carried a pink wand. She also had pink hair. I was a proud mom and thought she was so cute!!!

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Fall Fun

On Sunday, we decided to visit the pumpkin patch and pick out our pumpkins to carve for this year. We let each child design their own Jack-o-Lantern. Min decided to go for the scary version and Joo chose a silly face. Here are the two working on them and the final products.

Unfortunately, due to record heat, it was 92 today, our Jack-o-Lanterns only lasted 4 days before they rotted and collapsed. We won't have any pumpkins on our porch for trick or treat on Saturday.

Landscaping

It's been awhile since I updated everyone on our wildlife situation so I thought I would do that today. The "friendly" deer that was in our neighborhood was taken away by fish and wildlife officials so he is gone. We still do have a herd of them living in the woods nearby, but they keep their distance.

Now to the real story, the summer was not kind to our yard in the back. We got chinch bugs and most of the grass died and the weeds took over. With the cooler weather, we were finally able to redo the back yard. We hired professionals to come in and re-landscape the pool area while working around our trampoline. They came last Saturday to see what we wanted done, then came on Monday and planted it all. We love it!!!!!! Check out the before and after pictures with and without the trampoline.

Before

AfterThe back looks so good, now I want to do the front.

Applesauce

The first week of October in Joo's classroom was "apple" week. On Friday, they made applesauce and Joo loved it so much, that she wanted to make it at home so we did. It's very simple; peel some apples, put them in the crockpot and cook until mushy, add some sugar and cinnamon and eat! It was so delicious that we are making some more today.