Pumpkin Carving!

This weekend we had a little pumpkin carving party for some of Charlie's classmates.  It's really just an excuse for me to put up Halloween decorations and carve pumpkins.  This year the kids actually wanted to carve the pumpkins and not just play with the gross sticky eyeballs I got.  That said most of the time they wanted to play out in the treehouse which made me both happy and horrified.  Happy that it gets love and horrified because the backyard - as always - is a construction zone.  Somewhere along the line I've lost all sense of decorum so I roll my eyes and let everyone crowd outside in the midst of construction debris.

Here are some pictures of the brunch



we got a little carried away with the face paint...



thanks to stephanie for helping to carve the remaining pumpkins

 We have construction because we put up some beams in the dining room and started on shelves in the living room.  The bathroom is still unusable so we are all craming into Veronika's bathroom which I'm guessing doesn't make her stay all that fun.  Luckily she is a good sport about everything - including the 6am wake up calls with the kids screaming.  Here are our new dining room beams:

 She continues to take Charlie to do rock climbing.  Look how high he got last time!

Charlie has taken a few swim classes and is doing much better.  I think it'll take a lot more lessons for us to start seeing actual strokes and not drinking..Here is after just jumping in and turning around to swim back to the edge. 

Diego is finally starting to talk more.  One cute thing he tells me is "I love you much."  I tell him I love you more and he tells me "I love you much doo-doo head!"  He is really into doo-doo head...something his brother taught him.  I've started wondering how he'll do with the transition to school next year (assuming he gets in) as he doesn't like sharing nor do we make him share much.