when life gives you mud

make mudpies.

Today was a very soggy, rainy day.

We had a fun outing planned with a friend.  We arrived in the (unpaved) parking lot of the little boutique we'd planned to visit, and I stepped out of my car ankle deep in slop. I sloshed back to get Maddi out of her carseat, to find she had sneaked a sucker from her Halloween bucket and had spent the drive getting very sticky, and very very purple.  I was standing in the rain scrubbing blue raspberry from everything within Maddi's reach, when Graysen threw up all over the place and completely drenched his clothes and carseat. 

Then I decided to get back in the car and just drive home (barefoot, because my shoes were so muddy). Then my friend's car died.  

Lesson learned: rainy days are for staying home and watching movies in your pajamas. 

But. Since we were soaked and dirty anyway, when we got home Madison and I played in the rain.  Correction. I played in the rain.  She played in the mud.  Making mud soup, she said.  

Nothing like a little mud to brighten a drizzly day!

We're Off.

To see the Wizard, that is.

I decided to be themey for Halloween this year.  I'm not usually one to dress up, but when I was able to borrow an entire Dorothy costume just my size, I couldn't resist talking Maddi into being Glinda.
I had her at pink and poofy.  
(The wand and crown sealed the deal.)

Micah, being the supportive husband that he is, let me stuff him with straw and paint his face for our church Trunk or Treat activity the weekend before Halloween (but sadly- we didn't get any pictures that night).

Graysen wasn't quite as cooperative.  He didn't love his lion hat so much.  He'd scream and shake his head back and forth until the hat slipped down over his eyes, and then scream louder.  No pictures there, either. 

Oh well, even minus the Scarecrow and Lion, Madison and I sure had fun getting all dolled up and trick-or-treating.  

Maddi was such a sweetheart. At every house, she'd run to the door, say "trick-or-treat," then look up right into the face of whoever gave her candy and say "thank you!" in a tiny little voice.  I kind of can't wait until we can do this again next year!