October Update

So it looks like we will be doing monthly updates of life with Madison and Violet until somehow more hours are found in the day...so here's October :-)

In October I was able to have a glimpse of what it's like to be a soccer mom... Since Madison really enjoyed Webby Dance class offered at her Montessori Pre School we signed her up for a character ballet dance classes offered by the Long Beach Parks and Rec. It was only 4 sessions for the month of October but every Thursday I was one of those Moms:-) In the class Madison got to be different princesses and do a ballet routine with other girls... She had lots of fun but we think she would really enjoy more fast paced hip hop kind of dance so let's hope I can find her something in the future...:-)

Madison was Princess Odette from the Swan Princess, Princess Cinderella, Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, and lastly a fairy... The ones I don't have pictures to share with you means I had to be outside trying to sooth Violet:-(

Here is Princess Odette

Princess Aurora

I filmed Madison being a fairy on the last day... Here is Madison posing for a picture but I was actually trying to film...:-)

For this year's Halloween we decided to go as the Gru Family. Madison was Margo the oldest girl and her costume was the easiest since we had the ballet tutu and tights, we found the pair of glasses on sale at Claire's. Dave's Mr. Gru costume was easy except I had to brainstorm how to make his long nose and decided on a molding clay. I shaped it into a nose and painted it after air drying it. Since we had 3 opportunities to dress up this year I had 3 noses laying on our work table for a few weeks which was kind of weird...:-) Violet and I were the Minions(or as Madison calls them...Corns) and took a little more effort to complete the costumes.

Here is Madison's Margo costume...

Violet's Minion costume...

 

Halloween Dress Up Opportunity#1 was at the Sea World where we got to trick or treat with our friends from Church...:-) We walked around the park going through the candy stations all day:-) We were very happy with the quality of candies they had and our very first official all day outing with Violet went really well...

The second opportunity was at the Halloween Party hosted by the Borlands:-)

 

Madison did good with her donut game... Her parents are way more competitive though!

 

 

On Halloween night we were able to take a good Gru family picture so I was really happy:-)

And of course I can't finish the post without sharing more pictures of our girls right? Here they are!