Quinn-tessentials: Knights, Nights, and Halloween

October's been busy and lots of fun.

Ira's transitioning from purely a dragon obsession, to a knight and dragon obsession.

Of course, Eliot as joined right in.

I always thought these old curtains would turn into Superhero capes.

Nope. They're "king capes."

Cardboard didn't cut it, so we upgraded to a sword we carved from foam.

Eliot's been into pretending to be a dog lately. Yeah, that's him drinking a bowl of water on the floor.

Beautiful Michigan.

Making applesauce with the apples that Uncle Don brought us last month.

Mmmm... Surprisingly easy and delicious.

We loved General Conference, and celebrated with more food. We had some neighbors over to chow down with us.

Preschool field trip to..

On the way home, Eliot paritally ate 3 of his 4 apples.

GE's Family Fun Night at the Henry Ford

I'm a detective, just in case you couldn't tell. It seems like no one really could.

Anthony was a king.

It was a festive night of costumes, story telling, and treats.

Anthony had a trip to New Orleans

So the kids and I went to Coldstone,

And the Hands On Museum

As the Social Chair of the Ypsilanti Cooperative Preschool, I was in charge of throwing a potluck dinner again. Fortunately I wasn't working alone this year, and my co-chair had some awesome ideas: decorate a picture frame and get a polariod of you and your "VIP guest." My activity was donut fishing, which I thought was totally original, but later that night I googled it, and discovered it's a pretty popular way to tease cops during protests. I must of subconsciously picked it up sometime during my protest years. :)

Eliot decorating Slimer.

At a preschool silent auction fundraiser last year, we won 4 piano lessons. So we decided to experiment with Ira. He LOVES his teacher Maurice, but isn't so cool with his parents encouraging practice.

Trick or treating again at the Toledo Zoo with our friends the Dodsons.

Ira's showing interest in "word building." Yeah, that's what we call it to try and sound cool and unintimidating.

I've never seen Ira look so bored in his costume. Lets just say he was "relaxed" during circle time.

His preschool always invites siblings to the cool activities, like Halloween parties.

Real Trick or Treating. (meaning around the nieghborhood, not the zoo, museum, grocery store or preschool.) Wow.

Eliot's making some progress in his language skills. With some effort he's now putting 2 words together almost daily. Somehow the words "Milk Duds" just flew out of his mouth as if he's always known what they were innately.

Fall Family Photo Shoot.

We took the pictures ourselves using a remote, though we didn't realize the battery was low. It turns out when the battery's low, the pictures take sporadically about 50 times in a row, so there's a lot of really random ones that I'll just throw in the mix for your entertainment.

Eliot's ears were cold, so...