Bats, 2-year olds, and Rocks, Oh my!

Halloween is upon us and the girls have been busy. Megan spent this past Sunday afternoon over at her friend Jaclyn's house. They made cute little Halloween decorations. This is my favorite. They are decorating some of my kitchen cabinet knobs--out of the reach of little two year old hands.


This coming weekend, we are traveling to Roscoe to help celebrate Julia's birthday. We are planning to stay the evening and attend the Highland Halloween Carnival. I'm pretty sure the last year I went was when I was a senior in High School. It will be good to go home again and see some people, friends, and teachers I haven't seen a while.

Madelyn has been a busy little girl herself. I thought I would let you all know what she does while sister is away at school.

She goes through different movie phases. For a while, her favorite movie was Space Jam. She always asked to watch it. The cutest was hearing her say "Michael Jordan." She was always asking me who that was--the guy in the movie. I finally told her. And she still remembers.

Now her favorite movie is Shrek. She likes to dance to all the great music in the movie. The green hat on her head is a toy pea pod. She likes to take the peas out and wear the pod while she dances. It makes me laugh every time.





Other parts of the day are spent coloring. She is getting better about trying to color objects on the page rather than just scribbling all over. It is amazing to watch little ones develop and learn. She has just about mastered knowing all the basic colors.








Finally, this is what Madelyn usually does to Megan's room at least once a day. She loves playing in there while big sister is away. Of course mom has to clean most of it up before Megan gets home--with Madelyn's help. Otherwise I have a hard time getting Megan to clean her room before bedtime. She informs me that she didn't make the mess, and rightfully so.



Megan and her daddy have been working on identifying rocks in their rock collections. Megan has always been fascinated with rocks. So Shawn and I agreed to take this opportunity to help her learn more about them. We bought her a collection of about 15 rocks. They came in a storage box, but were not labeled. It also came with a little book to help identify the specimens. And of course Shawn has his books and library books to help in the process. She has identified gypsum rosette, sandstone, hematite, and calcite.

When appropriate, Shawn throws in whether the rocks are igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic. She's also learning about their luster, hardness, cleavage, and streak. It's all so very interesting--even to a 32 year old CPA.

That should catch you up on what's been going on around here. Hope you all have a great rest of the week.