October stuff

One of Chad's bday presents was his favorite cereal lucky charms. We heard a rat chipping away at something in the other room and found that shea really wanted them also. The bag was drowning in slobber.
For the kid class we teach at church we made hand puppets and named them Pablo and Pete (those were the first names that came to my mind). Shea loved them and now walks around the house with her sock on her hand talking and calling it Pablo.
Cade was so proud of the pumpkin he personally picked out and the finished product. He found that he didn't like to touch any part of it though after all the hype and was reduced to putting it on his legs for the picture instead and letting the rest of us do the dirty work.
Braden's first project. a report on an insect and then the making of one out of household items. I promised myself when i was younger that i would let my kids do their projects alone to use their own creativity but the frustration was too much and I ended up helping, at least its mostly his work. If you can't tell its a praying mantis made out of a plastic flute, zip ties, and styrofoam plates.
Cade pretending to be his daddy at the work site....

Shea's first prayer.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiAvkbeVuxk

Shark Tooth Hunting

We took a trip to Chesapeake Bay Maryland where you can find 6-20 million year old shark teeth fossils on the beach. We had a blast and even though the air was cold, the water was surprisingly warm.
Sifting through the sand and rock for teeth.

These were our finds.
For Family Night we made the tooth of their choice into a necklace for them. This is Braden's, its an extinct Mako shark tooth.
This is cade's, a Bull shark tooth.