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Monday, November 7, 2011

Halloween!

Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, it's off to work we go!

Soon after I realized I was going to be the mother of seven children, I knew that we would have to do the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs theme for Halloween some year. That thought was reinforced a couple of years ago when my fellow quintmom, Sara Tyre (who also has quints plus 2) did it with her family. This year seemed like my best chance---the quints were old enough to be great dwarfs and Riley and Kaiya were young enough not to protest too much. GG helped me with the costumes (she did the hard stuff like the boots and hats) and I think they turned out totally cute! I let the kids decide what color shirt and hat they wanted---of course they mostly chose "their" colors. I couldn't find a yellow shirt, so Kaydence ended up with light blue. She chose a yellow hat, but at the last minute, we couldn't find Rustin's blue hat anywhere! Fortunately, we had a "prototype" dark pink hat and Kaydence graciously let Rustin wear her yellow hat

Our church has a Halloween Trunk-or-Treat every year and I was amazed that the beards and hats actually stayed on until the very end. When it came to actual trick-or-treating, most of the kids ditched the beards after the first few houses..

The Seven Dwarfs: Dopey (Kaiya), Doc (Riley), Grumpy (Rustin), Happy (Kassidy), Sneezy (Ryder), Bashful (Kaydence) and Sneezy (Kyndall---no, that was not a typo, both kids wanted to be Sneezy, so we just didn't have a Sleepy)

The Prince (Jayson) and Snow White (Rachelle)

This picture of Rustin was just too funny not to include it---he is such a little clown!

Carnival games at the Church Trunk-or-Treat

Kassidy

Kaydence

Ryder

One of my good friends, Joy Park, just happened to be the witch from Snow White...I couldn't resist one of her apples!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Field Trip Friday--C

Letter C was a Choice letter. There are a Copious number of things that start with letter C! For our field trip, we started at the Capitol building of the Colossal state of Texas. Our Capitol is rather Cool, I think. The exterior Construction is similar to the US Capitol and there is a reCurrant star motif throughout the interior.

I was surprised by how Cheerful the quints were as they Checked over the Capitol. They were Charmed by the squirrels Climbing the trees, and they were Crazy about the Canons. They were Curious about the rotunda and felt Compelled to Climb the Cyclopean staircases to get as high as possible.

Kaydence, Kyndall, Kassidy, Rustin and Ryder at the Texas State Capitol

Colossal staircases in the Capitol Created Curiosity among the Cute Quints

Though the quints were Courageous as they Caught the view of the rotunda from the top floor, the Considerably spaced Crossbars in the railing Caused me to be Concerned!

The Canon

Countless strangers insisted on being Captured on Camera with the Quints. (OK, not really Countless, but there were a Considerable number!)

After the Capitol, we headed down Congress Ave to see the Cows on Parade.

During our Downtown Circut, we Caught a glimpse of over 20 Cows...this one is Called "Moosical Moosaic"

"Flowerida"

"Batsy at Twilight"

Halfway through our Cow Circuit on Congress, we stopped to Consume some Chow.

Lunch Consisted of letter C sandwiches, Cheese sticks, Concord grapes (I could be making the Concord part up---I really have no idea what kind they were), and Cookies

On a trip to the water Closet, the quints rode an escalator, for what might have been the first time---they were Crazy about it!

Cow Collage

The Concluding stop on our Capitol of Texas adventure was the Big Top Candy Shop.

Candy, Candy, Candy

The Copious amounts of Colorful Candy Captivated the Quints and made it Challenging to Choose what to get!

Conveniently, the Candy shop had five Chairs

From the outside looking in---The Candy shop was a Cool Close to a Considerably Crazy-Fun Day!

PS--Speaking of letter C, the kids Halloween Costumes turned out so CUTE----I'll post some pictures in the next Couple of days!!

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Field Trip Friday--P

Last week was "P" week at our house. Of course all my Pretty little Princesses were happy about that! Especially the ones whose favorite colors are Pink and Purple :-)

Pink Letter P Pancakes

Early in the week, my friend, Andrea, brought her Pet Parrot over to Play. The Parrot, named Ruby, was a little Panicked at the sight of so many Playful Preschoolers. But she became more Peaceful when the Petite People fed her some Pine nuts.

Andrea and Ruby with Kaiya, Kassidy, Kyndall, Rustin, Kaydence, and Ryder

Isn't she just Pulchritudinous?

Kyndall and Kaydence were Pleased by the Picturesque Parrot

The Posse of Preschoolers Pose for a Picture with the Parrot

For Field Trip Friday, we Packed the Preschool Passengers along with our Pals, GG and Tammy Z, into the Plenty-big van and headed to the Pumpkin Patch. Our favorite Pumpkin Patch is the one at Sweet Berry Farms in Marble Falls, which is about 45 minutes away. It has become a Perennial Practice to take Pictures at the Pumpkin Patch every year.

Pick-up Truck at the Pumpkin Patch

Plentiful Pumpkins

Peculiar Pine-colored Pumpkins

Petite Pumpkins

The Pentuplets Flash their Pearly Whites: Kyndall, Rustin, Kassidy, Ryder and Kaydence

Petting the goats was a Popular activity

Rustin gives the Passive farm Pet a Peck

Also Pleasing to the Preschoolers was the Tractor Train, Pulling a Procession of barrel cars. (Notice that they each Picked their Preferred Pigmentation of barrel to ride in)

The Passengers Pose for a Picture with the driver of the Plowing Machine Pretending to be a train. (The angle of the Picture makes it look like he is holding something, but it is actually a Pig made of hay bales in the background)