The Greenhalgh Family: October 2008

Kid Quotes

Owen: "Mom, do you want to know what I say when my bike runs over my foot?" Mom: "Yes." Owen: "You're not gonna want to hear it because it has a 'stupid' in it."
Sitting on the barstools at breakfast yesterday, Becca put her arm around Nathan and said, "Come on, Baggy-buddy ... let's get back to where we belong!" It was so random that everyone broke into laughs, even Sam, who was laying awake upstairs in his bed. (They got the "Jungle Book" movie for Christmas.)
Anytime you ask little Sam what's in his toenails, he excitedly says, "DIRT!" (and this kid can't talk yet)
I heard Becca in the bathroom struggling to get her pants back on. Frustrated, she yelled, "These pants are not obeying me!!!!!"
One day in the car, Nathan asked me what I thought about Spiderman. Having never seen it, I said I don't know. He quickly informed me that I didn't know because I was only 25. "Dad will know ... he's 26!" Apparently that one year makes a pretty big difference in one's movie knowledge.
"But I don't have any green pants!!!" (said distressed Nathan, the night before St. Patricks Day. We quickly assured him that he had plenty of green shirt options and that would be sufficient)
"If you cry, LAUGH!" (whispered by Nathan into Becca's ear shortly after she finished throwing a fit ... very wise, if you ask me!)

Friday, October 31, 2008

Sorting candy!

This year's Halloween line up ...

Harry, I mean Nathan, had a lovely Halloween, beginning with a fun costume parade at school. Jasmine, I mean Becca, enjoyed her party at Tecia's preschool. Aladdin, I mean Sam, was jealous of both of them but he and Mommy had a fine time constructing him a hat from some red fabric and a sour cream carton. Peapod, I mean Owen, was just plain cute all day.

Brent and I put on the only costumes we have ... sorry to not be more original.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Happy Fall!

Happy fall, everyone! This is my favorite time of year. I've been doing a lot of canning. Today we got some material to make Halloween costumes ... check back to the blog in a few weeks to see how they turn out. Yesterday we picked the pumpkins from our garden ... not a bad harvest, eh? One of the little orange balls in the center back is actually Owen, not a pumpkin (he's just wearing an orange shirt).

Choo choo!

3 cute kids riding the train at Cornbellys ...

Cornbellys

We visited Cornbellys last weekend ... the corn maze (and stuff) that Thanksgiving Point puts on each fall. Here are a few highlighs. First stop, the giant rocking chair.