Three Musketeers: Zachary, Wyatt, & Yannick: October Oddities

Stuff that was still on my camera when I posted the October Oddities. Therefore, part 2. If you get "the quickening", then you're a big big nerd.

October 29, 2009: YMCA Part-day Preschool: T/Th Ladybugs Halloween Party

Zachary with part of his class at the Halloween party. I LOVE little Maguire as a bear on the far left!

Again with the class picture. Ms. Aneesa, Zach's FAVORITE teacher, is standing on the right.

Wyatt showing how happy he is to be at Zach's school for more than the 3 minutes it takes us to drop off in the morning!

Enjoying treats at the party.

3 tables of little kids eating too much sugar, right before lunch!

Here is a quicky video of Zach eating at his party.

The only part of note is the two girls - in blue and yellow. Those are Zach's bestest buds at preschool: twins Natalie and Caroline.

I wish I had gotten a picture of the face/hand painting station. Another mom and I did the painting, and it was SO terribly obvious which paintings I had done b/c they were SO SO poor! Her ghosts, spiders, candy corns, and pumpkins were amazing really.

October 29, 2009: New Pack-n-play
Wyatt (and his friend Morgan, who goes to sleep at our house every other Thursday) are both growing out of our Travel Lite portable crib. It was time to upgrade to a full-size pack-n-play. Thanks to Craigslist, I found a great one for only $10! Here are the boys testing it out.

Wyatt liking the new afternoon nap bed

Boys comparing the "little bed" and the "big bed".

Portable crib face-off! Check out Zach in his latex "Dr.'s glove" which he has been begging for since he got his blood taken a month ago. We finally found one today at Zach's school when I was changing Wy's diaper. I hope it was ok for us to help ourselves to one!

October 30, 2009 My awesome (IMHO) 10-car garage

I have been making one and two car garages for Zach's cars out of bristle blocks. Today, he said "Mom, I really need a 10-car garage". I was definitely intimidated by the challenge, but rose to it and made this totally cool partially covered garage. I just had to take a picture b/f he destroyed it when Wyatt woke up (Zach would rather take his stuff apart than let Wyatt destroy it).

October 30, 2009: Pumpkin Patch
We have tried for several weekends in a row to make it to an apple orchard/pumpkin patch/corn maze. Darn weather. We have been thwarted at every turn. So here, we find ourselves Halloween Eve with no pumpkin. Off we went, right after dinner, to a local garden center to procure our pumpkins.

Zach was THRILLED when he learned that we could use a little red wagon to pull our pumpkins around while we shopped.

Zachary trying to pick out a nice big one.

Zachary with Mommy. Check out our 4 pumpkins in the wagon. Also of note - Zach still has his lollipop in his hand, left over from dessert. He's too excited to eat it.