Halloween 2012

This year for Halloween Catherine decided to be Dorothy.  This was no surprise, as she has been obsessed with the Wizard of Oz for about a year.  Sabrina wanted to be Minnie Mouse.  It turned out to be extremely (well, for Georgia) cold on Halloween, so we had to wear coats over their costumes.  Catherine included a stuffed black dog in her pumpkin to represent Toto.

 Sabrina actually kept her ears on the entire time!

 We are so blessed that the girls love each other so much!

 Our neighborhood Halloween party includes a "hay ride" on the back of a flat bed truck:

They love trick or treating.  Even Catherine, who has no interest in actually eating any of the candy she gets.

 They are both pretty social girls, so I think it is the chance to see so many people.

They actually got so much candy this year that we had to empty their plastic pink pumpkins half way through the evening!

Some of our good friends are serious Star Wars fans.  They dressed their daughter as Princess Leia and their twin boys as miniature Jedi knights.  They built a spaceship of some sort (I do not know the actual name) in their front yard.  This spaceship has four lights on it which you can flash from the "driver's seat."  All the kids loved this! 

When we came home, Sabrina said "It's a pretty good rocket ship, except it doesn't blast off."  Well, you just can't have everything!

Collage Pumpkins

A few days ago I had the girls make pumpkins out of torn pieces of orange construction paper.  This turned out to be a much bigger task than I imagined.  Sabrina really had difficulty tearing the pieces of paper.  She couldn't seem to understand that she had to hold the paper still with one hand while tearing with the other.  Catherine could do it, but got tired and quit after a few minutes.

 They both did a good job with gluing the pieces on:

 Sabrina with her finished project:

Joining a Band

There is nothing shy about my daughters.

The day before Halloween we went to a fall festival at a local church. Sabrina walked over to the band to listen, so we went over there with her.

Perhaps it's because we had taken the girls to music class at Camp Sunshine. Perhaps she is just a budding rock star. But before we could stop her, Sabrina walked around the stage and climbed up. One of the musicians handed her an instrument to shake, which she gladly accepted and began to shake.

Not to be left out, Catherine climbed on to the stage too and was handed an instrument.

They loved it:

Second Fall Festival

One of the churches near our house, Eastside Baptist Church, hosts a great fall festival each year. Catherine chose to be Tinkerbell and Sabrina chose to be Belle:

They had fun trying to find needles in a hay stack (OK, colored popsicle sticks):

They caught ducks and frogs with nets:

Sabrina was supposed to knock the animals over with a bowling ball, but they were so cute she played with them instead:

Sabrina trying to hook lost sheep with a cane:

Catherine, blindfolded, pinning the nose on a pumpkin:

Sabrina throwing bean bags at a tic tac toe board:

Catherine "tossing" hula hoops around pumpkins:

Fall Festival Activities

Each year Camp Sunshine hosts a fabulous Fall Festival. The girls love playing the games (and getting the candy too!):


Instead of having her face painted, Catherine had her arm painted:

Sabrina decorated some cookies and ate them:

Bouncy Slide

Camp Sunshine had some bouncy houses with slides at their Fall Festival - one of the favorite activities for the girls!

First Fall Festival

Here are the princess costumes the girls chose for the first fall festival they attended this year: