Today Gianni, Carmen, and I spent the day together...just the three of us! We headed off at about 830am to the Phoenix Children's Museum. The kids played hard until almost noon and then convinced me to take them to Peter Piper Pizza for food and games. Gianni's favorite events at the museum were the bikes, indoor climber, and a new maze that is made out of hay in their outdoor courtyard.
Carmen's favorites were shopping (where she loaded her cart with every single banana until one parent said, "what's with the girl and not letting anyone else have a banana?"), the pretend kitchen, and the scarves.
Normally around 10am we hit the art room which is usually a brief visit. Not today. The Casillas Family was in touch with their inner creativity today. This time the art room was a huge success. The two crafts were spooky Halloween trees made out of paper bags and spiders. The kids did both. They painted and had a puppet show as well. The kids were very crafty today!
To add to the craftiness of the day, after dinner all four of us painted pumpkins. The kids had so much fun making faces on their pumpkins....and ok... mommy and daddy had fun too.
We ended the evening by filling Carmen's party favor bags for her guests. Her birthday is Friday but her party is Saturday. We formed a little assembly line of four at the table and loaded the bags with Dora stickers, Mickey Mouse tatoos, stencils, bubbles, and chocolate of course! Carmen LOVES CHOCOLATE! Especially M&M's which she wanted to give to her guests. She is very excited for the weekend because her friend Payton's mom called today to RSVP for the party. She goes to daycare with Payton and this will be the first time we have daycare kids at one of our parties. It made her day to know that Payton will be there. Every night when we go around the table and say the best parts of our day...she always says, "playing with Payton!"
Ok, so fall break is almost over. Oh how fast it has gone. Won't be posting tomorrow. Taking the day off. Big posts to come on Friday and Saturday. Friday Daddy has taken the day off so that we can take Carmen some place special for her birthday and Saturday we have (let's see where should I start) dance class at 10am, Gianni's first baseball game of the Fall season, Carmen's party, a pumpkin patch event, and family in from California! Busy busy.
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