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October 28th, 2009 | 
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One of our Halloween traditions is the “ghostie tree” as the kids look forward to hanging up the ghosts every year.
Here are some photos of Alex and Mac putting up the ghosties, they worked really hard to get every one hung up even though the wind was blowing quite hard and the ghosties kept trying to escape!
By the time we finished it was dark, next time we won’t wait until after dinner to get started. But the tree looks nice and spooky according to Mac 
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With Halloween around the corner we decided to make salt-dough ghosties and their haunted houses (tissue paper boxes).
Alex painting her haunted house:
Alex and Mac working on the houses. They put various bats, ghosts and pumpkins on each one. After the boxes have dried we’re going to go back and add some extras like orange and black pom-poms, etc.
The salt dough ghosties who will be living in the haunted houses for Halloween
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After a long summer of Alex telling us that she couldn’t learn to ride her bike without training wheels (after she had begged us to take said training wheels off), she is suddenly riding. It seems Grandpa had the magic touch when it came to teaching her and now she is doing it all on her own (And she does wear a helmet normally, after the photos I made her stop and go get it since she tends to try and sneak out without it until I remind her yet again!)
But I love how serious she looks when she’s riding:
Mac said he doesn’t want to go without training wheels until he’s six (next summer), although honestly he has such good motor skills I suspect he could do it without much trouble. I asked him to pose on his bike for this photo but he refused to smile, instead he is blowing bubbles and acting like a clown (as he so often does)
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I love to read and I have always hoped that my children would be readers also. Alex (who is 6 now) loves books and she reads quite well. I always read to the kids before bed and now Alex helps by reading a book aloud to Mac and I — I think she’s pleased that she can read a book to us and have a rapt audience Last night she read both books — Little Critter Goes Trick or Treating and Blues Clue’s Halloween.
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I’ve had a headache for three days — a combination of sinus problems and stress. I really wish I could take a nap — like certain very spoiled orange furballs! Meet William the Orange — a very talkative 20 pounder who rules our house, our lives and, in his dreams, the world
I think interrupting his nap to take photos is not endearing me to him — I’ll pay later no doubt when he decides to wake me up at 2 a.m. wanting water at the bathroom sink!
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In the meantime, if you need a rainy day activity, there is always dressing up the nearest patient dog
