Halloween

We love Halloween at our house.  The girls were dressed in Halloween attire pretty much the whole month of October.  Berkley especially loved this outfit that matched her doll. 

 We spent an evening at "Scary Hill" and the girls loved it, especially the spooky wagon ride. 

 Glasses for the shooting game. 
We had our annual pumpkin carving night with the Morbys. 

(Which included jumping in the leaves with Grandma Lisa.)

I'm fairly certain that for every piece of candy that made it onto Peyton's cookie, at least five made it into her mouth. 

And here are the finished masterpieces. 

On Halloween Day we went to Black Island Farms for Berkley's preschool field trip.  The girls always have a blast there. 

The slides are always a big hit. 

Dani and Berkley. 

Everyone but me went down this giant bumpy slide.  (At 27 weeks pregnant it just didn't sound fun/comfortable.)

Halloween was quite warm this year but it was SO windy on the farm and there was so much dust blowing!  That didn't keep the girls from riding the cow train though... Or Zack. 

Then the girls thought it would be fun to have corn in all their crevices. 

Check out those smiles. 

We even went on a wagon ride around the farm, tasted their fresh cabbage, and picked out our own pumpkins to take home. 

Then it was costume time.  Peyton chose to be Cinderella and Berkley wanted to be an Elsa butterfly (which is basically just Elsa with wings.)

A silly face and a curtsey. 

Sassy princess poses. 

 How many two-year olds do you know who can pull off a bun like that? 

Berkley was super excited about her white Elsa hair. 

Peyton has that princess smile down. 

After our ward trunk-or-treat we went down to surprise Grandma Leann and trick-or-treated around her neighborhood. 

This is as crazy as my costuming got.  It's too bad we didn't get a picture of Zack's strange ensemble.  He was going for "white trash" but most people thought he was "Weird Al." 

And here's a video of Peyton singing "Mean Old Witch."

Preschool

Berkley started her second year of preschool in September.  She loves it.  I thought it would be easier this time around but I still cried after I dropped her off.  I blame pregnancy hormones.  Here are some pictures on her first day.  She said she wants to be a teacher when she grows up. 

Here's her self-portrait.  She went through a small phase that she drew blue eyes on herself to be like me. 

 This wasn't from preschool but it's pretty adorable.  Berkley is on the left and Jesus is on the right. 

Their first field trip was to the park to feed ducks.  I love this picture of the Morby/Stoddard girls all holding hands.  Soon there will be two more!

Berkley and Dani are in the back making silly faces. 

We went to the fire station the beginning of October. 

This was probably the girls' favorite part.  Peyton waited for all the preschool kids to go.  When it was her turn she wouldn't let go and then she cried when she had to stop. 

Here's the fire truck song Berkley learned at school.  (Or maybe made up, I'm not sure.)

Also in October every paper in our house looked like this.  She loves practicing her letters.  In addition to normal preschool this year she's been doing an online preschool through the state called upstart.  It goes at her pace and I think it's really great.  Her reading skills have been improving so fast!

After one month of preschool she had memorized the alphabet backwards thanks to Miss Kimi.  She was the first in her class to have it memorized.