what i have been doing since matt left: day 3 &4

DAY THREE: The day started with my girl joining me in bed and somehow sleeping through all of the wiggles. I know for a fact that Robin elbowed Laura at least a half dozen times, but she slept. The bear slept with me every night so that I could subconsciously say there was someone in the bed with me (I don't like sleeping alone) and the sheet is to keep the fuzzes from the bear off the bed. 

Our activity for the day was to color Halloween pictures. Robin was the only one who got into it though Laura did play with the crayons and put a few marks on her page. Mine is the other picture shown and I spent a lot longer coloring than Robin did.

DAY FOUR: It looks like we did a lot, but really each thing lasted for 10-30 minutes so there was plenty of time just sitting around. The kids decided to become superheros shortly after waking up, so pictured we have Spider-Robin and Wolver-Jacob. Robin wasn't very happy because Jacob kept attacking her and she wasn't up for that much playing so early in her day.

Our next activity was to paint, on card stock this time. I pulled out all the colors we had, put them on a paper plate for them, then let them go. Robin used lots of paint and Jacob just sponged some circles. It didn't take long for them both to revert to painting themselves and trying for hand prints  but they didn't get enough paint for that and simply colored their hands. Luckily they didn't get too much on their clothes or on the tarp though I am glad I put that down anyway. Pictured below is their finished projects.

 The third activity was some balloon volleyball. They decided that this would work best with oven mitt then proceeded to see how long they could keep the balloon in the air.

 And of course there was Halloween which i don't have pictured. Everyone was excited for trick-or-treating and the pumpkin buckets came home half full each. We brought along a stroller for the smallest kids (went trick or treating with my sister, Stefanie) and of course Jacob and Robin wanted a free ride to each house, so of course fit ensued. For about ten minutes Jacob refused to participate in candy getting because a dog scared him, but I wouldn't let him sulk the rest of the night so shoved him up to the next house which got him going again.