Pumpkins, Stormtroopers, and Leaves. Oh My!

I've been soaking up these guys as much as possible lately. Aren't they cute? Both are loving school and learning so much! Owen can read most of his books by himself now and gets 'List 2' (more difficult) spelling words each week. Hadley is making friends, thriving in music, and I think is nearly ready to read.

I wish he would show you his teeth. The top incisors are coming in and they are HUGE! Don't know where he gets that from...  Haha!

In other news, Owen finally wrapped up his football season; they've been practicing weekly since the first of August. They ended with a couple of weeknight games though, which were cold and ran later than his bed time, so it was a good time to end it. This is the best team picture I got because they didn't do formal ones. I believe their record was 5-3; a great team of sweet, goofy boys. Owen enjoyed learning about the game and even scored a few touchdowns, which was so fun to witness!

The weather has been all over the place, but we have had a few days of sunshine to enjoy the leaves before they were all blown away. We even took a family bike trip to crunch through them! I hung back with my biking unicorn buddy.

It was so nice that day that we also made a trip to the pumpkin patch. Sunday afternoon meant that we had the place pretty much to ourselves...

Our bounty of pumpkins! The little green one was all our garden would produce. The painted orange one (Owen's) and vampire green one (Hadley's) were craft projects. Owen comes up with new ideas and requests to make more decorations for Halloween almost daily. They love this time of year!

We were brainstorming all kinds of races for the kids to do down the sidewalk: skipping, running, jumping, one-footed hopping, galloping...

Finally, one busy Saturday included a morning football game for O, birthday party for O while H went to a free ice skating lesson (she did well, but said she didn't like it),

and a Star Wars day at the bookstore! They are a little obsessed, and Owen will be a Stormtrooper for Halloween, so they had a blast! He was the first to call out the answers to the reader's questions: "Millenium Falcon!", "Death Star!", etc. And they even got to take some SW swag home. Best. Day. Ever.