Trick or Teet

Yes I know,  I did not spell "treat " correctly...
I take the lil guys to our Library for Preschool Story Time on Mondays.  It's free. It's fun. It's learning. It is just awesome. I am so glad our Library does this in conjunction with the Imagination Library.
They try to stick with the theme or holiday by the month and by the county school schedule. It is just trying to gear the lil ones minds into getting ready for school and to increase their love for reading.   I really enjoy doing this with my boys. They look forward to going, they look forward to the craft, the book(s) and to seeing their new friends they are making. I love the "mommy time" with other mommies. We have laughed that sometimes the crafts seem more for the mommies, but it's a fun thing all around  Things like this is what I was missing working 5 full days.  I must add once more and thank my company for allowing me this time with my children, it goes all too fast and they are only little for a very short time!  I plan on returning  to 5 full days once they are in school full time.....  For those that are thinking "wow must be nice"  I have always worked 40+ hours, I have worked night shifts, I have worked weekend shifts.  Now I work 3 days, 10-12 hour shifts, so I am still a full time Clinician and Full time Mom/Wife!   Just saying....

Ok, so a few months ago they gave us the calendar for the library events. It's gonna be great! It is retired teachers of the community and they are swapping up days, events, etc.  Well Next week is Pioneer Day to lead us into Thanksgiving.  We get to dress up as pioneer boys (and girls but just boys for me) so we started planning this and talking about their little Halloween Party and that they could wear their costumes. I didn't really have any cutesy ideas this year.  Until they are big enough to want to be completely different,  I have tried to kind of keep them in the same theme....    Same way with birthdays, until they beg and fuss differently we will do this together. And i Swore I would not! But, just easier right now!

             ****Here are a few of the past costumes we have done in the same theme*****

2010 

Fireman in his firetruck with his firedog!!!  

2011

Cookie Monster and his Chocolate Chip Cookie! Gots to have milk! Me like milk!!!!!!  

                                               

So back to my story I was trying to tell, haha!  So I was trying to explain to Cays ( age 3) what a Pioneer boy is. Glad he will learn soon!  And then I told him we had to start thinking about his costume for Halloween. Out of nowhere he said " Ill just be a farmer, Brae Brae can be a moo moo so I can feed him some hay".  I cracked up! Great idea! Cays is our country kid no doubt! He loves all things outdoors, all things Co-Op, all things tractor, farm, boots, etc.    They have been excited for months anytime we talked about it! I dug in the closet to see what all we had already, what we needed for Farmer Boy. whoop whoop had it all!!!!!

So we put him all together, he loved it and was THE cutest Farmer ever..  What was even funnier, he is learning colors, shapes, numbers. Me and his Uncy Matt started colors of tractors, and he started saying   "I be a FARM ALL" when someone would ask!!!!!!!   So then  we 'ran it by" Brae Brae  (age 2) and he gave us a "mooooo" as a go ahead!  Mommy got on ebay and found his........

 Well, rewind about 4 years. The clinic I worked at then was dressing up for Halloween and I was around 6-8 months preggo for the first time! I felt like a big ol cow!   I joked that this is what I should be!  (I had it for several years, my college classmates all dressed up one year and I already had it for that, my brother and his now wife dressed the parts one year)   So I was a cow, and my utters were sticking out right on my pregnant belly! so funny! My boss was a farmer. Our patients loved it and laughed so hard all day.


So I decided that while the kids would enjoy it, think it was fun, actually want to be seen with mommy and daddy we would dress up with them. My hubby decked out in his overalls, and I drug the adult cow costume out of the attic! This was the funniest thing the boys had seen in awhile. They LOVED that we dressed up to trick or treat with them! I was very glad we did, because we both know in a few more short years they will not think anything about us is cool or fun!   We didn't have the video camera rolling fast enough for them pulling on my utters, asking what they were, us explaining that's where milk comes from, that's where baby calves drink when they are little and I swear the farmer tried to milk me and then my baby calf ALMOST put his mouth on one to get a drink !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!        So that's where the Trick or Teet came from!!!!!

Here are a few pics of the guys on my farm this  year:

(when I preview it shows a duplicate of fireman/dog, and I can NOT delete it, sorry. I dont like it being in an odd spot either!!!)