The Many Adventures of the Aichele Monsters: Halloween and Pumkpin patches!

G's candy stash...and chocolate covered dino chompers!


Lady Gaga! Our neighbor girl dressed in this and G wanted to wear it. (Her dad made it too!)

This is my favorite time of the year! (You will hear me say this again around Christmas as well...) I love the fall colours, the crisp air, the awesome comfy scents burning in the house and of course all the yummy things to bake, which 99% of them include pumpkin:) Ace has been eating pumpkin muffins every morning and at Miss Thang's request, she has been munching on Oatmeal Raisin chip muffins.
   Saturday morning we went to Grammy's Pumpkin Patch. It was so fun and free! Ace loved the tub of corn kernals and G loved the barrel train. as well as the smash zone. We started walking around and looking at the games, Ace made his way to the tub and played and giggled so loud. He was in love! G wanted to ride the train, but not alone. So I climbed into the train with all the other kiddos...I am not sure why I was the only adult but I am pretty much kid sized so it worked ok:) We rode around the woods and saw some pumpkins then chose a little gourd. We went to the "General Store" and got her a cookie, me some picture frames and Luke found "The perfect pumpkin". We then went over to the Smash Zone. They rigged up some big machine with a lever where they smash pumpkins, soda cans, water balloons and other objects for fun. G thought the pumpkin was funny but was less than impressed when the water balloon splashed her. Typical girl. That afternoon she went to Becca's birthday at the Y. Luke had to take her since I was colouring my friends hair. They did a jump jump and had cupcakes.
   Halloween day was a party filled day! We started with a party at the Y. Both beans wore their costumes, Lilo and a pumpkin. The Cutest Lilo and Pumpkin I may add! Then we did a quick change in the car from Lilo to a Barber and not just any barber...Luke The Barber! It was "dress like your parent's job" day at preschool. We dressed her in a white smock that we pinned on the back and got her a comb and a pair of "shears". (Daddy removed the blades, phew!) No scissors for this gal, I fear her cutting her beautiful Rapunzel hair:/ Ace and I went about 30 minutes early to attend their Fall party at the school. They ate cupcakes and played games. I love watching her in action at school with all her friends, especially her best buddy, Brodie. That evening we ate "Mummies" for dinner. (Cresent wrapped hot dogs) Then headed off for all the trick or treating Daddy could handle. We started at Darlene's (G's old babysitter), The Warren's, Nana and Papa's and ended at Gordon and Gloria's. They hit the jack pot! We talked with G before hand and decided she could eat what she wanted (which was only maybe 5 pieces) and then keep a few and we would "buy" the rest from her. She was totally ok with this since she would get a new item out of this. When we got back, we went through all the candy and she chose what she wanted and then we loaded the rest up for Luke to take to the Barber Shop. We had maybe a dozen trick or treaters when we got home and G loved seeing all the costumes. Then we acted like a scrooge (Or whomever the Halloween hater is) and shut the door and closed the blinds and called it a night, after a Milky Way or 2:)
   Tuesday we went to Salina to get Whitney's wedding gift and hit the jackpot on Halloween 2012! G chose a Snow White outfit and we got Ace an Elmo costume. Talk about planning ahead and we all got new Halloween novelty shirts for next year! Plus I got both costumes for under $20! Let's just hope that we still like those characters by next year. (I will probably start in August 2012 and talk about cool Elmo and Snow White are...) G also chose some Dora footie fleece jammies as her candy exchange. They are super cute on her and so soft but a booger to get out of when there is a bathroom emergency! Then we went to Spangles for lunch. G claimed she saw and Indian in the drive thru!?!? Dont you hate the seat by the drive thru where everyone who drives by stares at you while they are waiting to get their food? Annoying, but G seemed to make a handful of them smile. Destiny spent the night last night and we roasted pumpkin marshmallows in the fireplace. They are gigantic marshmallows and I swear G and D ate like 4 each, gut ache! Ace had already bounced, otherwise he would have munched down a few too. He loves marshmallows.

FUN THINGS ABOUT THE AICHELE HOUSEHOLD:
~Ace now says Pup Pup! Luke taught him last monday! It is so cute. He is trying to get Thank You or at least try to mumble something so he gets praise, kinda like a pup pup:) He can say mama, dada, nana, papa, bye bye and bad. (He picked up bad rather quickly)
~When I was sick and miserable, G came over to the couch and asked how I was and I told her I felt really bad and she goes "Oh ok here mom" and handed me my phone and said "Let me turn on QVC for you". What a sweetheart and she knows the way to my ♥.
~While I was sick, G asked me at least 3 times if she could pray for me and would always say "Jesus thank you for helping Mommy not be sick." Love love love her little prayers, so innocent.