Halloween Eve: This & That

Even though many things are cancelled or different this year, we've been trying to fit in what Halloween fun we can.  I can't believe it's tomorrow - Tatum is very ready to "trick or treat."  Our annual chili night and Hayride to the Witches House was a success earlier this month.

I like to make up little candy bags each year anyway but this year our neighborhood agreed this way would be safest with a table setup in driveway so I had fun putting our bags together during the Bachelorette the other night.

Halloween movie night (is most nights) but with popcorn, cookies and Mommy/Daddy on the couch was a special treat.

Halloween baking - Tatum did most of the cookie cutting and decorating himself this year which made it more fun (and easier for us ha!)  Looking forward to Christmas cookie baking with him already.

Last but not least - Tatum is finally off to in person preschool next week as his school is finally opening back up.  A little Halloween party to celebrate the end of pod learning.

Halloween Crafts

This year has been fun working on Halloween crafts and projects with Tatum - he really gets the holiday and gets excited over pumpkins, ghost, witches, etc.  He also really likes helping make the crafts instead of me just doing it for him.

Hand Print Boo & Hand Print Pumpkin: Very easy - he loved doing the handprints and wanted to help paint his hand for the imprint himself.  I finished up the crafts with the rest as he didn't have much interest.

Paper Plate Pumpkin:  He colored and did the stickers, I put the face on.

Cotton Ball Ghost: This was another one he really liked helping with.  Glue did get all over the place as he wanted to do a lot of the cotton balls, but fun was had.

Color Spider Web:  I put a couple of each color sticker - red, yellow, blue, green, orange onto the spider web and then it was his turn to match up the color sticker on the sheet with the color sticker on the spider web.  A very easy way to work on colors.

October Reading Log:  When the library closed during quarantine we got fairly lazy about our daily reading.  He loves his Halloween books so we try to make sure to read one or two a day then put a sticker on his chart.

Choo Choo Third Birthday Party

Tatum picked a train theme for his third birthday party and it was such an easy theme to put together.  We celebrated with a few friends and enjoyed a very low key night - the birthday boy loved it!  I made cupcakes and cookies but ordered the food so it was nice and easy for me too.

Tatum is Three

 

Our not so little boy turned three years old last week!  He has fully developed his own little personality, loves to help and do things on his own, has been doing well with at home learning (numbers, colors, letters), will be starting in school preschool soon and his favorites continue to be trains, "wee-ooo's" (firetrucks) and golf.

We had a great day celebrating - it was pouring rain outside so we had a lazy morning playing with new things, Daddy was able to join us for lunch and that evening family came over for dinner, presents, celebrating and playing - he had a blast!

I happened to have a doctor's appointment the day before so baby brother even sent him a special message for the big day.