meet baby barkers!: October 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

October 31, 2014: Halloween!

We had another fun Halloween, this year as the Power Rangers family! Liam and Bryn started this, and we followed suit. Even grandma was into it :)

We started trick-or-treating in downtown McKinney which is a great tradition. The kids were so excited this year...

This was Nora's first year to trick-or-treat as a big kid...even though she couldn't eat anything she got :)

Liam and Bryn love spending this holiday with Jackson and Brenna, this is our 5th year together at Scare on the Square!

After dinner at the square, Liam and Bryn came home to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood with friends. Nora went to bed while I passed out candy. The kids picked their (1!) favorite piece of candy to eat before bed, and the rest we gave away. Wonder how much longer I'll be able to get away with that :) Go go Power Rangers!

Monday, October 27, 2014

October 27, 2013: School Days

Liam has been having a great time at school, but this was a particularly good week. First Liam was named the Star Student of the week!

Then during the red ribbon week (say no to drugs) presentation, Liam got chosen to do a nunchuck demonstration on stage...he loved it!

He had a great week as the star student and had many guests for lunch including Bryn, Nora and I, Nick, Mallie, Dallie, Grandma and Grandpa.

But being a star student isn't all fun...it's a lot of work too we learned! First we made our poster...Liam wanted a picture of him in every (13) state he had visited.

He also listed everything he loves including traveling, shrimp, hissing cockroaches, the color turquoise, soccer, climbing, his family and spiderman...and that he wants to be an explorer when he grows up :)

He writes in a journal every day, sometimes with prompted subjects, sometimes random. Here was one of our favorite entries. First I love that he changed "my ouchy" to "my couch" on his own :) But we also love that he wrote about getting hurt playing goalie, and in his picture description of it he wrote "I have blood" above him laying on the ground and wrote "Shake it off" coming from Nick's mouth. Now Nick does (lovingly) say that when they have minor booboos, but Liam's also a big Taylor Swift fan right now, so hard to tell who his inspiration was!

The other part of being star student is that you get to take home the class pet, Louie, over the weekend (and then print more pictures to post in the class scrapbook about your adventures). Liam took Louie everywhere...