Happy Halloween

 Thanks to Oma's creativity, Izzy' planter has a new fall purpose.  We've gotten many compliments on our decorations from our neighbors.  But my all time favorite is our arms & legs pumpkin.

 

Izzy's school outfit as her class wasn't allowed to wear their costumes.

 This year for trick-or-treating, we met up with a few of Izzy's classmates... Bonnie, Siri and Cody.

Getting ready to go.  Victoria played a great supporting role, 'creating contrast for Izzy's feathers'. 

 One of the fun things with twins is seeing the contrast in their personalities at many stages in their life.  Halloween creates one of those examples.  While Victoria was alive tonight loving the excitement, running after the big kids and getting candy; Micah was reserved.  He wanted to stay by me or sit in the stroller.  He only trick-or-treated at a few places.  I had to go with Victoria and get him a piece of candy so he didn't miss out later.  This is the only picture I got of him in his costume as he was always hanging onto my leg.

 We ran into Captain Hook, Wendy and Peter Pan's shadow.  This was my favorite costume of the night.

 Brook Street is an amazing place to trick-or-treat.  They block off the roads so the kids can run free without fear of being hit when they crossed the street.  The bar is set very high for the houses on this street with the decorations.  No picture can do it justice with the atmosphere and number of trick-or-treaters.  Each house had a line to go up and get candy.  I'm glad we went with a group as you can quickly loose a child in the masses at the doors.  Last year the twins were scared of the pirate ship.  This year they were fascinated by it and even went inside to get some candy.

 Cody, Izzy, Siri and Bonnie

And the night is over.  Micah and Victoria didn't put up a fight to get into the stroller to head home.  Micah even fell asleep on the walk home.

Halloween at Work

 I so enjoy working in a pediatric field on holiday's such as Halloween.  Each year the department develops a theme.  This year's theme was 'Monster Mash'.  Trying to come up with a monster that isn't scary was harder than it thinks.  I decided to be one of the Sesame Street Martians.  My friend Kerry helped me create this costume one weekend.  I knew it would be a hit as my 3 little monsters weren't scared when I wore it.

 

The Sesame Street Martians are only as good as seen in action.  Hope this jogs some memories if the picture doesn't.

 

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Fish, Fun & Fright

 Every Halloween the New England Aquarium has their Fish, Fun & Fright night.  This year Izzy wanted to go with her BFFs, Bonnie & Siri.  This is such a fun night.  You have to earn your treats at the various stations.

 Even the fish get to celebrate Halloween.

The finale is a costume contest.  The winner of the child category was the Angler Fish in front of Izzy.  Though the girls did not win, they had such a fun night together.  Izzy even cried when we came home knowing that her friend Siri wouldn't be here next year to do this again as she is returning to Sweden.

LCSH Halloween Party

 Every year LCSH has their annual Halloween party at the park.  While waiting for the parade of costumes, we ran into our neighbor and her new baby Judah.

 And here comes preschool....

 My little Lightning McQueen.

 My princess posing for a picture.

 A party is never complete without Wayne.

 I wasn't able to get a picture of all of us looking at the camera at once.  This is the best one I got.

I just laugh at Izzy's face in this one.  She's my theatrical girl.

It's Apple Picking Time

 A fall tradition in New England is apple picking.  We took Oma with us for the fun.  The weather was phenomenal for this activity.  We started out with a hay rack ride scoping out where to go for the apples.

 The kids picked out which pumpkins they wanted.  Unfortunately every time we set ours aside, someone would take one or two of them.  So we picked ours out right before leaving so we could carry them straight to the car.

 Everyone got into picking.  Micah was fairly serious about getting in there are getting one. 

Afterwards, we hung out at a play area and enjoyed some cider doughnuts.  They were amazing and worth standing in line.

Come Sail Away!

 Kid-less, I was invited to go sailing for Labor Day.  This was something I have never done so jumped at the chance to go.  Plus, it didn't hurt that the people I was going with are super fun!  Of course one must entertain yourself on the drive to Maine which meant taking many pictures.

Almost there we stopped to eat lunch in Damariscotta.  We sat right on the edge of the water and ate fresh Damarscotta oysters which came from only feet away.  Yummy!

 

 A view from my bedroom window.  Amazing to wake up to this every morning.

Christmas Cove... only feet away from the cabin.

The Claire.

A beautiful boat.  Not only was this an experience I don't think I'll get to do again, she was right up my alley being built of wooden and coming from a nostalgic time.

 I think I could get use to this!

Can you believe they let me sail!

Amazing the physics behind sailing to go faster or slower.  We were 'racing' this boat and of course, won.

 Besides sailing, eating seafood was also done all weekend.  This is a view from Shaw's.

 Mark made me a fan for fried scallops... my mouth is watering now as I write this.  Scallops, oysters, lobsters... all so good when they come straight from the ocean to your plate.

 

 A final farewell.

 A tradition I was told was to write a note to the next people who make their way to the cabin... The Playhouse.  Instead of writing a note, Kerry and I sand a song.  "Tell Him" was a running joke this weekend as Eric couldn't stand us singing it all the time.  It worked well for a thank you song for Mark who hosted us this weekend.

 We may not be the best signers but we do not lack in creativity!

What an amazing and fun weekend!

Seaver the Weaver

 Part of Izzy's school curriculum is to keep track of what books you read at home.  I have gotten tired of reading our own library over and over again.  Therefore, I try to take Izzy to the library once a week to get new books.  One trip Izzy picked out 'Seaver the Weaver'.  This is a book about an orb weaving spider who doesn't like to weave orb webs.  Its a very cute book.  The interesting thing the morning after we read this, we had our own Seaver the Weaver on our porch.  The kids found him interesting since we read this book.  We had to check on Seaver whenever we were coming and going.  They enjoyed seeing him work and he did not disappoint.  His webs were perfect and beautiful.  Izzy even tried to catch a fly to throw into his web once.  Now that the weather is changing, Seaver is gone.  Amazing how one little creature created weeks worth of conversation / education.  Thank you little spider.