What a Halloween night – rain, rain, rain. All the neighbors got together for pizza and a picture beforehand. The pizza part went great. The group picture part did not.
Month: October 2013
We had a quick outing to the zoo with the Strouds today. The zoo was almost completely empty of people so the boys got to run and play to their hearts’ content.
Today we had our ninth annual pumpkin carving party. This is the first year I had the house clean and 75% of the food done by Friday evening. It made prepping on Saturday much more relaxed! I switched the food up this year and went with less sweets, but more meat items and treats. We definitely had fewer left overs – of course the kids are also a year older and theoretically eating more..
Most of the kids were too busy playing to carve pumpkins, but the adults enjoyed the carving! We also and games this year – Wade built a few and a neighbor gave us a ghost piñata. We turned on Bobby to welcome everyone and the kids stayed outside playing with him for quite a while.
We tried for several group photos this year – a kids only, an everyone, and a silly group shot.
Wade has wanted to take Alex rock climbing for almost a year. There is an indoor facility near his work and he asked for passes last year for Christmas – which he got. Then a friend from work heard about it and wanted to go. Wade and his friend have been going during lunch a few times a week for months. At some point Wade mentioned the adventure to Alex and we’ve heard nothing else since. Tonight we finally went and Alex loved it. By the end of the evening he was almost climbing to the top. This definitely makes me want to get my gear out of the basement and join them. Maybe next time!
I am fairly organized and usually very good with what activities (especially kid-related) are happening on which day. I messed up big time when it came to Alex’s school picture day. I had it on my calendar but didn’t even look at the calendar before we left for school. We get to the playground and I saw a few kids in ties and the girls in dresses. Then it dawned on me that it was picture day. So here is my son in his Pirate Alex t-shrit – all dressed up for picture day. I was that Mom that forgot.
Alex wrote a book at school today (see here) and wanted to read it to Teague at bedtime.
Alex came home from school today with a book. He chose “drawing center” for his activity and decided to create a book. (This is all on his own – no assignment, no adult direction.) He brought home four drawn pages glued together and a story in his head. He asked me to put the words on the page. The description of the story is, “A kangaroo who doesn’t want to go to school.”
The majority of Alex’s swim lessons are held in the “big” pool, which he doesn’t like. He has to work really hard to stay happy and earn a star. Today he asked his teacher if they could stay in the little pool because he really wanted a star (he was only one away from a tv show). She agreed and swim lessons were great.
Alex was pretty adamant on his Halloween costume from the start – a robot. (Picked very soon after seeing pictures from previous years.) I tried to convince Teague to be an astronaut (since we had all the items and Alex had never been one for Halloween), but he was insistent that he be the same as Alex. Wade has been hard at work on two robot costumes and is almost done.