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Friends + Pumpkins

 Every other week Clara's art class has the option to gather on Zoom, so this past Thursday we logged on with a few other kids from her class. It was about as hilarious as you'd imagine watching six Kindergartners on Zoom together. Ha! At one point, one kid was upside down. Clara thought it was really fun.



This Halloween window cling summed up how I felt about our first snowfall this past weekend. It's all gone already now though.


Saturday Brynn headed to her friend's house for an overnight stay. It never fails that if one of the girls has plans with a friend, the other thinks that automatically she should be doing something with a friend also. So, Clara was lamenting about having Adria over as well. Turns out she was unavailable and Clara had been wanting her old preschool buddy, Cade, to come play for quite a while now, so we checked if he was available. Thankfully he was and seemed just as excited as Clara to come over.

Right away, he asked if we had any games and soon they came upstairs with Toilet Trouble, one of Clara's favs. I went a little overboard with the pics, but it was pretty funny watching their reactions during the game.









After that they made some creations in the Easy Bake Oven.


Buddies! 
(Cade turned six in mid-September, so they really are pretty close in age. They stood back to back so they could see who was taller, and surprisingly, Clara was just slightly so).



It was so great that Cade was finally able to come over. They did seem to have a really good time together. Cade has two older sisters, so he didn't seem to mind that we had all 'girl toys' or anything. Clara told his mom when she came to pick him up that he was a crazy boy. Ha. He was a bit more rambunctious and loud than what we're used to around here. 


This afternoon we carved the pumpkins the girls got at the pumpkin patch last weekend. Brynn went with a Harry Potter theme, to no one's surprise, and Clara went the classic jack-o-lantern route with Dad assisting with his oscillating saw. 















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theweckerlys said…
Fun pumpkin carving! Love all the photos of Clara & Cade; how sweet!

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