Bloody Barbie Mummy

At the end of this Halloween Pie book it has a recipe for pumpkin pie.

Today we read the book and made...

PUMPKIN PIE!

For the first year ever we have bought a few Halloween decorations.  Tonight Sylvia asked if we could get five more.  Being in a good mood I said, "Sure! What kind do you want!?"  Here is her list...

-a half skeleton half bird with bird wings. -a skeleton with "plug cords" coming out of it's eyes. -birds with blood coming out of their eyes. -a fake cheeseburger with a mad face. -a mummy.

I explained to her as best I could that these Halloween decorations were pretty specific and I don't know if they will have any of these at the store.  I suggested that she could at least make the mummy with a Barbie and some toilet paper.  Here is her bloody Barbie mummy.  (The gruesome earing through the forehead was already there by the way.)

Yesterday at the cemetery when someone started up a chainsaw to trim some tree limbs, Sylvia asked me what that noise was.  I told her it was a tool to cut branches off of the tree.  She then calmly replied, "Oh, I thought it was someone here that's buried screaming to get out."

Service Project for Kids

I am always on the lookout for service projects that get my kids involved.  As it turns out, soup kitchens and other service opportunities don't allow mischievous destructive toddlers...go figure.  Not saying Hazel is necessarily mischievous or destructive, just that I am pretty sure all two year olds are. Yesterday we were able to clean up the cemetery for a church service project.  It turned out to be a lot of fun and it was work that all of our kids were able to do.

Park After Dark

Once a year the Tohono Chul Park puts on a Park After Dark.  As you can see, there were so many docents holding live reptiles, birds, insects, mammals and anything else found in the Sonoran Desert. Here is a docent holding a Mountain King Snake.

This little snake eats rattlesnakes.

Our friend, Tommy, came with us.  (the boy, not the tortoise.)

Here is Luke with his idol, "Karl the Bugman."  Karl was holding and playing with a scorpion!  Ack!

This Great Horned Owl is missing an eye :(

Elf Owl!  I want to keep him in my pocket!

Bat Lady.

Poor little docile brain damaged bobcat.  The docent was opened for questions and one kid kept asking, "would it eat us because we are meat?" and "could it kill humans?" ....no and no.

Hazel was there touching all of the animals too but I never got a good non blurry picture of her, so here she is eating some animal crackers from earlier that day.