^^^Halloween Carnival^^^

Today was Madilyn's Halloween Carnival at preschool. She had her regular class for the first hour and 1/2 and the last 45 mins was the carinval. While Madilyn was at preschool, Cowen, Paul, and I went and had coffee and a donut and ran a couple of errands.
Then we headed back to Madilyn's school.

Cowen wore his costume too and was in heaven walking around and flirting with all the little girls. He is so social.

I secretly want him to wear that monkey costume all the time because he is just too darn cute in it! Good thing he likes wearing it!

(Grandma Penny and monkey man (a.k.a. Cowen) watching the "eat dirt" work)

The kiddos wore their costumes and they got to play games and make halloween crafts. It was so fun to see all the cute kids in their costumes.
Madilyn made a ghost out of a sucker with a tissue over it, played plinko, pin the face on the jack-o-lantern, stamped her face and hands, ghost bowling, and musical chairs.

It was a lot of fun!

Madilyn had a little bit of a hard time when I dropped her off this morning, so it was nice to be able to come and spend time with her and stay for her tumbling class. My mama (Grandma Penny) was able to come up and see the carnival and Madilyn's tumbling class too. It was neat to have my mom there!!

Madilyn making her lollipop ghost sucker "boo"

Here she is showing her brother some of her loot.

Cowen wanted to play Plinko too. He LOVES Madilyn's preschool and wants to be involved with EVERYTHING.

cute moment.

Here Madilyn is sitting between 2 of her favorite friends in her class. Austin on the right and Jackson on the left. The little boy in the skeleton costume is Tate and Madilyn talks about him all the time.

fun with stamps. We put them all over her hands, arms, and

even her chin. She loved it.

The last activity of the day was musical chairs. It was too cute to watch this one! They didn't take a chair away each time, thank goodness because Madilyn was always giving up her chair to someone else and then she would say "where is a chair for me?" haha. hilarious.

After Madilyn's tumbling class, we all went out to lunch at Cafe Rio before Paul had to go to work and my mom had to head back.

It was a great day!

Now Cowen is napping and Madilyn is relaxing and watching some of her favorite shows. I really thought she would pass out and take a nap after such an eventful morning/afternoon, but who am I kidding? It is Madilyn we are talking about :)

When Cowen gets up we are going to bake some pumpkin muffins and play outside before dinner...now, what to make for dinner?
Sometimes it is hard to cook just for the kiddos and I. I will be happy when Paul is back on day shift again in a couple of weeks!