For Jacob & me, the night was horrible. Hours of traffic and antsy kids who just wanted to get out of their seats. But Naomi & Aleta loved the lights, when we finally got to see them! I took a bunch of videos--you can hear some of the exclamations from the girls in the background.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Winter Wonderland
As I mentioned in the post about our free carriage ride, St. Louis County Parks creates a "Winter Wonderland" in one of the parks here in the city. I really wanted to take the kids to drive through all the Christmas lights, and I somehow managed to convince Jacob to take us, so we went on Monday night! Unfortunately, since Winter Wonderland was closed on Christmas Eve, Monday was the last time to drive through before Christmas, and everyone in St. Louis decided to go! Traffic was INSANELY terrible. It should have taken us 10 minutes to get to the park, but it took us about an hour and a half instead. Cars were waiting in a line on the freeway to get off the exit, and we waited in the line on the freeway for fifteen minutes before even getting onto the exit ramp. By the time we finally got off the freeway and then drove the mile or two down the road to the park entrance, it had taken over another hour. It was crazy. But I had promised Naomi a park full of Christmas lights, and we were going to give it to her!
For Jacob & me, the night was horrible. Hours of traffic and antsy kids who just wanted to get out of their seats. But Naomi & Aleta loved the lights, when we finally got to see them! I took a bunch of videos--you can hear some of the exclamations from the girls in the background.
In this next video, look for the frog lights. He starts on the grass, then jumps & splashes into the pond.
My favorite kind of lights were the shooting star lights. You can see them in the tree in the next video.
For Jacob & me, the night was horrible. Hours of traffic and antsy kids who just wanted to get out of their seats. But Naomi & Aleta loved the lights, when we finally got to see them! I took a bunch of videos--you can hear some of the exclamations from the girls in the background.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Aleta's Birthday
My baby Aleta turned 2 this month! I can't believe my youngest child is already 2. I wanted to have a little party for her, but we have been so incredibly busy (and so incredibly tired) the past few weeks, and the thought of trying to plan a party just made me want to cry. So I decided she didn't need a party! Instead, we invited our next-door neighbors Katie & Justin (They are nursery leaders at church, and Aleta just LOVES them) over for Aleta's birthday dinner and cake, and we had a nice, relaxing night at home. We had spaghetti & meatballs (one of the kids' favorite meals), and Aleta opened presents, and we had cake and ice cream. Although we didn't actually eat ice cream, because I forgot that it was in the freezer, which is exactly what I did for Jacob's birthday back in September, too! At least this time I hadn't bought 4 half gallons of it for a party... we probably gained 10 pounds from eating all that ice cream ourselves after Jacob's party!
Aleta was super excited about her cake. She gobbled up her piece and then sat there screaming, "I need more cake! I need more cake!". She loved it! Naomi, on the other hand, has never really liked cake. She tells me she wants cake, or a cupcake, and then just licks off the icing and says she's done.
Naomi was very excited for party hats. She was with me a few weeks ago at the Dollar Tree, and she saw the hats in the party aisle and begged me for some. Since Aleta's birthday was coming up, we bought a pack. It's been a week since Aleta's birthday, and Naomi will still occasionally decide to wear one of the party hats for meals. Silly girl!
We got Aleta a big stuffed owl, which Naomi picked out... that girl really loves owls for some reason! Naomi and I were grocery shopping at Walmart a couple months ago, and she saw the big stuffed owl and got so excited. But I had already promised to sew Naomi the stuffed owl she saw & wanted on Pinterest, so she really didn't need a second stuffed owl (Naomi doesn't play with stuffed animals much, anyway). Aleta, on the other hand, loves stuffed animals. She carries them everywhere and cuddles them and hugs them. So Naomi and I decided to buy it for Aleta for her birthday! It's called a pillow pet, I think, and it was only 12 dollars, which I thought was a pretty good price for the size of it!
Her other gift was a toy broom set. Aleta has a thing for brooms... I don't get it! If they leave the broom out in the nursery room at church, Aleta will run right to it and start playing with it. She does the same thing here at home, or at Nanny & Granddaddy's house, or anywhere she can find a broom. She loves them! So she has been loving her toy broom! And I got it for free with my Swagbucks giftcards, which was pretty awesome! I started doing Swagbucks this year, and I love it so much! If you haven't heard of it, when you sign up for an account, you can earn "swagbucks" for doing surveys, or watching little videos, or playing games, or searching the web using their search engine. I get most of mine through surveys. Then with the swagbucks, you can buy gift cards to lots of places, like Amazon or Walmart or Target. I paid for almost our entire Christmas this year with Amazon gift cards I got from Swagbucks. I added it up, and I got about $140 worth of free stuff! Pretty freakin' awesome. (I will be posting more later about all the free stuff I got for Christmas!)
A little bit about my beautiful 2-year-old:
Aleta loves "reading" books and will sit for a long time by herself, just looking through all of our books. She even picks up my books, which have no pictures, and sits there "reading" them. She is really good at playing by herself. I'll quite often find her in the playroom, playing alone quietly. She also loves playing with Naomi, of course. One of their favorite games recently is to turn our big rocking/arm chair thing so its back is next to the couch, and then they climb on top of it and then jump/flop onto the couch cushions. Over and over and over. Aleta loves painting and coloring. She's usually pretty good about keeping it on paper, but I have had to clean up the walls a few times since we've moved here! She calls all of those coloring activities "color paint". So when she asks to "color paint" she either wants crayons, markers, or paint, and I have to figure out which one. She is a pretty good eater, most of the time. She will often eat twice as much as Naomi. And she LOVES fruits & vegetables (especially fruit, like watermelons & grapes), which is nice! She loves shoes and is almost always wearing her boots or a pair of shoes, even if she's not wearing any clothes (which is often the case). I don't know what it is about little kids and being naked!
A funny story about Aleta from the other day... I was giving Aleta some crackers, which she calls "crack". So every time she needed more, she would start yelling, "I need more crack! I need more crack!". It made me laugh. :)
Here are a few pictures taken on her actual birthday (we had her little party the day before)... her face is covered in sticky candy cane residue, in case you were wondering. Somehow I didn't notice until after taking all of the pictures!
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| It's a terrible picture, but it's the only one I got during dinner! |
Aleta was super excited about her cake. She gobbled up her piece and then sat there screaming, "I need more cake! I need more cake!". She loved it! Naomi, on the other hand, has never really liked cake. She tells me she wants cake, or a cupcake, and then just licks off the icing and says she's done.
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| She didn't think a fork was necessary. |
Naomi was very excited for party hats. She was with me a few weeks ago at the Dollar Tree, and she saw the hats in the party aisle and begged me for some. Since Aleta's birthday was coming up, we bought a pack. It's been a week since Aleta's birthday, and Naomi will still occasionally decide to wear one of the party hats for meals. Silly girl!
We got Aleta a big stuffed owl, which Naomi picked out... that girl really loves owls for some reason! Naomi and I were grocery shopping at Walmart a couple months ago, and she saw the big stuffed owl and got so excited. But I had already promised to sew Naomi the stuffed owl she saw & wanted on Pinterest, so she really didn't need a second stuffed owl (Naomi doesn't play with stuffed animals much, anyway). Aleta, on the other hand, loves stuffed animals. She carries them everywhere and cuddles them and hugs them. So Naomi and I decided to buy it for Aleta for her birthday! It's called a pillow pet, I think, and it was only 12 dollars, which I thought was a pretty good price for the size of it!
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| Aleta will occasionally share her owl with Naomi. |
Her other gift was a toy broom set. Aleta has a thing for brooms... I don't get it! If they leave the broom out in the nursery room at church, Aleta will run right to it and start playing with it. She does the same thing here at home, or at Nanny & Granddaddy's house, or anywhere she can find a broom. She loves them! So she has been loving her toy broom! And I got it for free with my Swagbucks giftcards, which was pretty awesome! I started doing Swagbucks this year, and I love it so much! If you haven't heard of it, when you sign up for an account, you can earn "swagbucks" for doing surveys, or watching little videos, or playing games, or searching the web using their search engine. I get most of mine through surveys. Then with the swagbucks, you can buy gift cards to lots of places, like Amazon or Walmart or Target. I paid for almost our entire Christmas this year with Amazon gift cards I got from Swagbucks. I added it up, and I got about $140 worth of free stuff! Pretty freakin' awesome. (I will be posting more later about all the free stuff I got for Christmas!)
A little bit about my beautiful 2-year-old:
Aleta loves "reading" books and will sit for a long time by herself, just looking through all of our books. She even picks up my books, which have no pictures, and sits there "reading" them. She is really good at playing by herself. I'll quite often find her in the playroom, playing alone quietly. She also loves playing with Naomi, of course. One of their favorite games recently is to turn our big rocking/arm chair thing so its back is next to the couch, and then they climb on top of it and then jump/flop onto the couch cushions. Over and over and over. Aleta loves painting and coloring. She's usually pretty good about keeping it on paper, but I have had to clean up the walls a few times since we've moved here! She calls all of those coloring activities "color paint". So when she asks to "color paint" she either wants crayons, markers, or paint, and I have to figure out which one. She is a pretty good eater, most of the time. She will often eat twice as much as Naomi. And she LOVES fruits & vegetables (especially fruit, like watermelons & grapes), which is nice! She loves shoes and is almost always wearing her boots or a pair of shoes, even if she's not wearing any clothes (which is often the case). I don't know what it is about little kids and being naked!
A funny story about Aleta from the other day... I was giving Aleta some crackers, which she calls "crack". So every time she needed more, she would start yelling, "I need more crack! I need more crack!". It made me laugh. :)
Here are a few pictures taken on her actual birthday (we had her little party the day before)... her face is covered in sticky candy cane residue, in case you were wondering. Somehow I didn't notice until after taking all of the pictures!
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| She's saying "Cheese" |
Happy Birthday, my darling girl! We love you so much!
Saturday, December 21, 2013
My Christmas sewing projects are DONE!!
I have finally finished all of the sewing projects I planned for the girls' Christmas presents! Actually there's one I haven't done yet, but it's a minor thing that I may just not do. I'm kind of burned out now when it comes to sewing... I got my sewing machine and got so excited, and I decided to attempt these projects even though I haven't sewn in over 10 years, and even back then, it was on my mom's ancient machine with her help. So I really had no idea what I was doing, which made every project take me 10 times longer than it should have. Nothing turned out perfectly (not even close!) which frustrates me, because I am a perfectionist. I made SO many mistakes. But I'm still pretty happy with how everything turned out!
My first project was Naomi's owl. Naomi has got a thing for owls. I was just playing around on Pinterest one day, and Naomi came into the office and saw the picture for the stuffed owl tutorial, and she immediately wanted one. After that day, she continued to ask me every few days about her stuffed owl. I finished it a while ago, and it has been really hard for me to not give in and just give it to her early. I'm so excited!!
The tutorial I used for the owl stuffie is found on a blog called Hammer & Thread.
My next project was a stuffed animal for Aleta. I didn't want to make the same animal, (and I ended up having a ROUGH time making that silly little owl, so there was no way I was making two!) so I picked an elephant for her. The elephant tutorial was from a website called Birch Fabrics.
My last sewing project was a little tote/book bag for each of the girls for their library books. Naomi recently got her own library card, and we love the library, so I thought it'd be fun for each of them to have their own library bag. I found a pretty simple tutorial on 30 Minute Crafts (although I think it took me closer to 5 hours to make mine... definitely NOT 30 minutes for me!). I did add one little thing to each of their bags--I wanted their initial on it, so I sewed a 4-inch felt letter on each of their bags.
You can't really tell from the pictures, but the fabric is NOT a solid color. It's a pretty teal color with a cute, small, white pattern on it. I think the bags look so much better in person since you can see the pattern on the fabric. Here's a close-up so you can see it better:
I found all of the tutorials by searching around on Pinterest--it's a gold mine for free tutorials and patterns! Also, I spent a total of 18 dollars on ALL of the supplies for these projects. I have only shopped for fabric/sewing supplies on big sale weekends (usually a holiday weekend), and I use coupons on top of the sales so I get pretty good deals. I saved 19 bucks on all of these supplies when I only spent 18. And with those supplies, I have made these 4 things, a hot air balloon pillow for my niece, and I still have almost the entire bag of stuffing and probably half of the fabric left!
My first project was Naomi's owl. Naomi has got a thing for owls. I was just playing around on Pinterest one day, and Naomi came into the office and saw the picture for the stuffed owl tutorial, and she immediately wanted one. After that day, she continued to ask me every few days about her stuffed owl. I finished it a while ago, and it has been really hard for me to not give in and just give it to her early. I'm so excited!!
The tutorial I used for the owl stuffie is found on a blog called Hammer & Thread.
My next project was a stuffed animal for Aleta. I didn't want to make the same animal, (and I ended up having a ROUGH time making that silly little owl, so there was no way I was making two!) so I picked an elephant for her. The elephant tutorial was from a website called Birch Fabrics.
My last sewing project was a little tote/book bag for each of the girls for their library books. Naomi recently got her own library card, and we love the library, so I thought it'd be fun for each of them to have their own library bag. I found a pretty simple tutorial on 30 Minute Crafts (although I think it took me closer to 5 hours to make mine... definitely NOT 30 minutes for me!). I did add one little thing to each of their bags--I wanted their initial on it, so I sewed a 4-inch felt letter on each of their bags.
You can't really tell from the pictures, but the fabric is NOT a solid color. It's a pretty teal color with a cute, small, white pattern on it. I think the bags look so much better in person since you can see the pattern on the fabric. Here's a close-up so you can see it better:
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| See? Pretty! |
I found all of the tutorials by searching around on Pinterest--it's a gold mine for free tutorials and patterns! Also, I spent a total of 18 dollars on ALL of the supplies for these projects. I have only shopped for fabric/sewing supplies on big sale weekends (usually a holiday weekend), and I use coupons on top of the sales so I get pretty good deals. I saved 19 bucks on all of these supplies when I only spent 18. And with those supplies, I have made these 4 things, a hot air balloon pillow for my niece, and I still have almost the entire bag of stuffing and probably half of the fabric left!
Friday, December 20, 2013
Our carriage ride through Winter Wonderland...
Sometime in November, I happened to be on the St. Louis Parks website, and they were advertising a contest they were doing to give away free carriage rides through their Winter Wonderland, which is a giant Christmas lights display in one of the parks here in the city. To enter, all you had to do was "like" any or all of their parks facebook pages. A horse-drawn carriage ride through a park filled with Christmas lights sounded pretty awesome, like something out of a movie, so I liked all of the facebook pages on the list! I tried to check the page to see who won each drawing (not at all expecting to actually win), but somehow I missed one of the drawings, and weeks later, I saw that I had won! Luckily, we were still able to claim our prize, and Jacob and I had our first date night since we moved here in August!
I checked the facebook page after our date to see how many entries they had, and the main parks page alone had over 3500 likes! I felt so lucky and blessed to have won!
The carriage rides are $80 normally, by the way, and that's not including the tip for your driver (which is expected). The carriage ride is only about 20 minutes, and although it was pretty nice to ride through "Winter Wonderland", it is definitely NOT worth 80 bucks. But for free, it was pretty awesome!
I wanted to take pictures, but I wanted to enjoy the time with my husband more, so the camera stayed away for most of the carriage ride. I'm hoping to get some pictures of the Winter Wonderland later when we drive through it with the kids.
I checked the facebook page after our date to see how many entries they had, and the main parks page alone had over 3500 likes! I felt so lucky and blessed to have won!
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| The envelope for my tickets--I thought it was cute that she drew the little picture in the corner. :) |
The carriage rides are $80 normally, by the way, and that's not including the tip for your driver (which is expected). The carriage ride is only about 20 minutes, and although it was pretty nice to ride through "Winter Wonderland", it is definitely NOT worth 80 bucks. But for free, it was pretty awesome!
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| Our horse's name was Woody. |
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| We rode in the Cinderella carriage, which made me feel a little guilty for not bringing the kids, because Naomi would have LOVED it. But we really needed a date night! |
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Frozen! (My movie date with Naomi)
For Thanksgiving, we went to see Jacob's family near Kansas City. 3 of my sisters-in-law were taking their babies to see Frozen, so Naomi and I went, too! We actually got a free ticket for Frozen because Amazon was doing a promotion where if you bought certain Disney movies, you got a free ticket for Frozen. I bought the girls Tangled for Christmas (actually, I got it for free--more on that in another post!), so I got the Frozen ticket from buying the movie!
Naomi and I both loved the movie. It was so cute watching her watching the movie. It was her first time ever in a movie theater, so everything was so exciting and new. And we had to splurge on movie popcorn. Naomi loves popcorn, and she got SO excited when we walked in and she saw the giant popcorn machine filled with popcorn. She ran up to it and just stood there, with her face and hands pressed on the glass. It was adorable.
In the movie (SPOILER ALERT) there's a part where the main character, Anna, gets turned into ice. When it happened, Naomi turned to me with teary eyes and the saddest look on her face and asked, "What happened to Anna?!". And the movie at that moment and the movie theater were completely quiet, so everyone heard her. It was adorable. But also kind of sad. But seriously so cute! I love my Naomi-girl.
I was in such a rush on the way to the movie that I didn't get a chance to take a picture of Naomi and I leaving for our mommy-daughter date, so we took one when we got home.
My sisters-in-law took a picture together after the movie, but I didn't know they'd be taking one and Naomi and I had already left. But here's the picture of everyone who was at the movie with us! (I stole it from my sister-in-law Kalie.)
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| Kalie & baby Lily in front, Sarah & Elizabeth in back on the left, and Rachel & Hazel in back on the right. |
Preschool Field Trip
At the end of October, Naomi's little preschool class went on a field trip to the zoo. I had taken off from babysitting that day so I could take the girls, and we had a lot of fun!
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| Do you see the giant snake on the other side of the glass? His head is right by Naomi. |
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| Checking out the fish & hippos |
Halloween Fun (Some catching up...)
Well, I have been terrible with blogging lately, which is sad, because this is the only type of journal I have right now. So I'm doing a little catching up today!
Waaay back in October, our neighbors decorated their door for Halloween. Naomi LOVED it and asked me every day, numerous times a day, if we could decorate our door, too. So I pulled up some pictures on google of different Halloween door-decorating ideas, and Naomi chose the one she wanted to do. Here is our finished door! (We decorated on a Sunday after church, which is why Naomi is wearing a dress).
Naomi also helped me make what we call "brownie pumpkins" for our neighbor friends (and one for ourselves). There is a woman in my church at home in PA who makes these brownies for every family in the ward, every single year in October. We LOVED them as kids, and we'd look forward to them all year long. It is part of Halloween for me, so it is a tradition I have tried to do every year as well, although there is no way I could ever make them for every family in our ward. But I at least try to make one for us, and if I can, for some of our friends or neighbors.
I had taken the girls to a pumpkin patch on our Girls Weekend, but Naomi wanted to go back with Daddy, so Jacob & I took the girls to another pumpkin patch on a different weekend. They had SO much fun, especially Naomi. They had so many activities for the kids-- a hay maze/obstacle course which Naomi absolutely loved, lots of slides, little kiddie tractors to ride around on, swings, a tower to climb up in, a big pirate ship, corn mazes, and a bunch of other things that I'm not remembering. We had a lot of fun!
For our Halloween costumes, we were all characters from Peter Pan. Our costumes weren't anything fabulous (other than Naomi's, which we bought off Craigslist), but I was still pretty proud of them since I made them all from thrift store finds! We built our costumes around Naomi's, because she really, really wanted to be Tinkerbell. I was able to find a really awesome Tinkerbell costume for cheap on Craigslist, so for the rest of us, I spent HOURS over multiple days driving to every thrift store and Goodwill within 40 minutes of us here in St. Louis. It was ridiculous. With some cutting and some sewing, this is what we ended up with:
This is a terrible picture (other than for Jacob, who is actually smiling, which never happens in photos!) but it's the only one I got of our whole family. Someone took it at our ward Halloween party. Naomi is Tinkerbell, Jacob was Peter Pan, I was Wendy, and Aleta was Nana the dog! I was most proud of Aleta's costume... it was so hard to find the stuff I needed and figure out how to make it all work together! Sadly, I forgot to draw on her puppy face for the party, and her hood isn't even up in the picture. So here's a better one of her costume, from another day:
And she was supposed to look something like this:
I was actually pretty happy with how Aleta's costume turned out. I used brown sweatpants & a brown Gap hoodie from a children's second-hand clothing store, then I cut the ears and belly from an old crappy towel, and I sewed them on the hoodie. The hat was a white summery baby hat that we already had, and I just sewed it on the way I wanted it to sit on her hood. And since I sewed the hat, belly, and ears on by hand, it was super easy to rip out the stitches so our hat and the hoodie are perfectly fine to use normally again!
Here are a few more photos from the night of the ward party...
We finally got around to carving our pumpkin like a night or two before Halloween, and it went terribly! Next year, I am buying a cheap carving kit with the special little knives for carving pumpkins.
On Halloween day, I planned lots of fun activities for the girls & I to do at home. We read all of our Halloween stories in their Princess tent, did pumpkin ghost bowling (explanation below), colored Halloween pictures, made pumpkin sugar cookies, and watched some Halloween movies. It was a fun day!
The pumpkin ghost bowling was an idea I got from some website (I probably found it on pinterest). I cut little circles and ovals out of black construction paper and taped them onto toilet paper rolls to make them look like ghosts. Then we set them up for bowling, and the girls bowled with their little pumpkin. They loved it, especially Naomi. Aleta was a bit more interested in building towers with the "ghosts".
Waaay back in October, our neighbors decorated their door for Halloween. Naomi LOVED it and asked me every day, numerous times a day, if we could decorate our door, too. So I pulled up some pictures on google of different Halloween door-decorating ideas, and Naomi chose the one she wanted to do. Here is our finished door! (We decorated on a Sunday after church, which is why Naomi is wearing a dress).
Naomi also helped me make what we call "brownie pumpkins" for our neighbor friends (and one for ourselves). There is a woman in my church at home in PA who makes these brownies for every family in the ward, every single year in October. We LOVED them as kids, and we'd look forward to them all year long. It is part of Halloween for me, so it is a tradition I have tried to do every year as well, although there is no way I could ever make them for every family in our ward. But I at least try to make one for us, and if I can, for some of our friends or neighbors.
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| My cute helper sorting the M&Ms for me! |
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| Naomi & one of the finished pumpkins! |
I had taken the girls to a pumpkin patch on our Girls Weekend, but Naomi wanted to go back with Daddy, so Jacob & I took the girls to another pumpkin patch on a different weekend. They had SO much fun, especially Naomi. They had so many activities for the kids-- a hay maze/obstacle course which Naomi absolutely loved, lots of slides, little kiddie tractors to ride around on, swings, a tower to climb up in, a big pirate ship, corn mazes, and a bunch of other things that I'm not remembering. We had a lot of fun!
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| Steering the pirate ship |
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| One of the awesome slides... it was hard to pull Naomi away from them! |
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| Aleta liked throwing the hay off the hayride. |
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| Ready for the hayride around the farm! |
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| On the hayride |
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| Please ignore the big scab on Aleta's nose! |
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| Jacob took Naomi up onto the tower |
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| Running through the corn maze. |
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| Pumpkins! |
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| Checking out the animals |
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| They were trying to lift the giant pumpkins |
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| Aleta tried to push Naomi on the wagon. |
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| This was part of the big obstacle course. Naomi loved the obstacle course... she spent more time on that than anything, and it was so hard to get her to leave! |
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| Spinning around in the giant tire |
For our Halloween costumes, we were all characters from Peter Pan. Our costumes weren't anything fabulous (other than Naomi's, which we bought off Craigslist), but I was still pretty proud of them since I made them all from thrift store finds! We built our costumes around Naomi's, because she really, really wanted to be Tinkerbell. I was able to find a really awesome Tinkerbell costume for cheap on Craigslist, so for the rest of us, I spent HOURS over multiple days driving to every thrift store and Goodwill within 40 minutes of us here in St. Louis. It was ridiculous. With some cutting and some sewing, this is what we ended up with:
This is a terrible picture (other than for Jacob, who is actually smiling, which never happens in photos!) but it's the only one I got of our whole family. Someone took it at our ward Halloween party. Naomi is Tinkerbell, Jacob was Peter Pan, I was Wendy, and Aleta was Nana the dog! I was most proud of Aleta's costume... it was so hard to find the stuff I needed and figure out how to make it all work together! Sadly, I forgot to draw on her puppy face for the party, and her hood isn't even up in the picture. So here's a better one of her costume, from another day:
And she was supposed to look something like this:
Here are a few more photos from the night of the ward party...
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| Showing off her facepaint! (It's a flower) |
On Halloween day, I planned lots of fun activities for the girls & I to do at home. We read all of our Halloween stories in their Princess tent, did pumpkin ghost bowling (explanation below), colored Halloween pictures, made pumpkin sugar cookies, and watched some Halloween movies. It was a fun day!
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| She was going "ooooooo" like a ghost... haha |
The pumpkin ghost bowling was an idea I got from some website (I probably found it on pinterest). I cut little circles and ovals out of black construction paper and taped them onto toilet paper rolls to make them look like ghosts. Then we set them up for bowling, and the girls bowled with their little pumpkin. They loved it, especially Naomi. Aleta was a bit more interested in building towers with the "ghosts".
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