Preschool fun

Thank goodness Nick remembered the camera when he went with Brielle to her Treehouse museum fieldtrip and her Thanksgiving feast; otherwise, I would have forgotten all about it! All I know is that everything at the Treehouse Museum is so fun the girls never want to leave. (And how awesome is Brielle's full name!)  I also know that during the Thanksgiving feast, they perform a lot of cute Thankgiving songs, make fun crafts and probably don't eat much!

Happy Haunting

Halloween is not my favorite holiday.  Luckily, there are always fun things going on that we can participate in to make it fun for the girls.  This year, Emma and her friend planned a Halloween party for a group of their friends. They played the spider web game (pictured above); Halloween charades, Halloween "capture the flag", and decorated sugar cookies.  It was a perfect day to be outside, plus Emma's friends' yard provided plenty of room to fun around and get silly.  She also had a Halloween costume parade at school with a grade party later that I got to help with.  In between the parade and the party, we went to Brielle's preschool carnival where they sang songs, decorated cookies, and played some carnival games.  My mom made Brielle's Indian costume and I thought she looked so adorable! Emma had a hard time choosing her costume (partly because I thought a lot of the costumes were immodest for her age), so she finally chose a leopard girl.  On Halloween night the girls went around our neighborhood trick-or-treating with their friends and cousins. By the end of the night, their buckets were so heavy they could hardly carry them back to our house! A giant bucket of candy...what more could a kid ask for?

The Extras

Here are a few pictures of what we do in our extra time.  Brielle started dance this year.  She loves it! They are learning a tap dance to the music "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast which is really cute and for their ballet dance they get to hold a Teddy Bear so that will be fun.  Emma didn't want to do dance this year, so she started another year of soccer. She has improved so much from last year! I'm also glad that they play for two seasons because I think she has been able to keep up her skills between fall and spring. We also signed her up for basketball. She wasn't thrilled about it, but Nick was willing to coach and two of her friends wanted to play if they knew someone playing.  Their team actually went undefeated! (They had some awesome 3rd graders on the team!) I think the girls were just excited to keep getting treats at the end of the games! Emma liked it, but maybe not as much as soccer, so we'll see what she decides to do next year.