It's fall!

[brachysira]

We've been on a "ghost train," picked pumpkins with preschool, visited an orchard for cider and to bounce on their giant pillow, and we've played outside as it gets dark.  My child wants to be Cinderella, a pink butterfly, or a cat for Halloween, but I have a nice warm blue butterfly costume for her...what to do?  Kind of a boring time developmentally for Feb child.  She's a fast runner and loves tag, but she's fearful of trying anything too hard.  She's recently gotten into writing and drawing, but she's fearful of doing it wrong so just writes one letter every month or so.  She is still learning a lot of words--asks what words mean a lot.  Both kids are obsessed with flashlights lately.

What's new with you and your Feb child?

[colinsfebmommy]

We have just started our fall activities. We went to pumpkin patch this weekend and got ours, he had a blast. He picked out one that weighed more than him I think LMAO We are FINALLY, FINALLY over the surgery recovery and I have my kid back. Ugh I wish that upon NO parent (or kid).

We leave for vacation is 3 weeks and this will be my nov15 first time on a plane....She is so busy and when she is not happy she yells like a crazy person so I am not looking forward that plane ride.


brachysira, can you put pink decorations on the butterfly costume?

[brachysira]

colinsfebmommy, sorry you guys had a rough time with surgery...seems like just about everyone I know has a kid who has done some kind of surgery.

Here's the thing with the butterfly costume. Last year, I got these really fluffy thick large wings because everything else looked cheap and I thought these would keep her warm since it's always freezing on Halloween. They are blue and black, and she thinks they are for boys. What she wants is a big dress and lots of bling. My child's only exposure to princesses, for real, is medical professionals. She's been to doctors so much that she picks out a princess sticker about once/week. But I sort of don't want her to be princess, with all that comes with it, plus none of the costumes are slightly warm. So my choices are to buy her some cheaper pink wings so at least she can wear her warm leotard and other warm components or I can try to buy here a blingy dress to wear over her leotard that would go with the blue butterfly wings or I can just insist she wears the good blue butterfly costume, or we can hunt on Amazon for something we can agree on...

[colinsfebmommy]

brachysira, I'd force the blue and do some fancy pink face paint lol

[dc2london]

What about pink Cuddleduds under the blue costume?

[mishka29]

We've started our fall activities as well ... dance and swimming for dd1 and music (for 1 year olds) for dd2.

We've been to two farms - feed the animals, ride the wagon, etc.