October 31

Happy Halloween!

Ethan's class had a field trip to a dairy farm/pumpkin patch. It was pretty cute, but smelly. There was a sweet little baby calf that you could pet, but E refused to touch it. We went through a cornmaze and got to pick a little pumpkin that I'm going to cook up and make some pumpkin bread out of tomorrow.
This was my group, the little girl is Ethan's girlfriend this year, Katelyn.

Notice anything .... odd ... about this scarecrow???

We carved our pumpkin when we got home...he has been wanting to make a puking one all year, so we finally did it. It turned out funny.


We ended up going to the local church fall Fest - he got to play games and get lots of candy. Then we came home and trick or treated around the block - his bag was overflowing when we got home!

October 29

We went to see "Puss in Boots" - such a cute movie! Ethan was a huge pig and ate all of his popcorn snack pack, all his candy, his whole slushie and sucked down most of mine!

We also went to the Shriner's Halloween Bash - so not for little kids! I am a huge chicken, and I fully admit it, but I don't think zombies & chainsaws are for little kids. Needless to say, we didn't stay long.

October 28

Teacher conference day! Ethan has straight M's (He has "mastered" everything they have done so far). He showed me that he can read a book, write a proper sentence, and do addition and subtraction.

We went to USO Family Game night, and there were a bajillion people there. We ate their free food, got Ethan's face painted and got a prize and left to the other Halloween party at the community center. There was 2 bajillion people there! We went on a crazy fast hayride, and Ethan was in the (very unorganized) costume contest. He didn't win, but he got a lot of candy!

October 27

Today was career day. Ethan went as an Endocrinologist. He liked telling everyone what that is :)



Here he is busy "writing his charts".

October 26

Today started out rough...E had a tummyache again, so I called the doctor because it doesn't seem normal to have a tummyache for 5 days. The doctor said it was just a virus, and he felt better after we went, so he went to school for the rest of the day without any issues. I went in to volunteer at the book fair for a few hours, the kindergarteners are so cute :)

Today was black & orange day, so he wore a Halloween shirt.

And here are his Halloween treats he's bringing to school tomorrow..eyeball suckers. Of course, my helper quit after the first three were done! I'm a little sad that we have to bring store bought goodies since there are so many cute Halloween recipes out there, but these are pretty cute too.

October 25

Ethan went back to school today, but he said he went to the nurse's office and lay down for a bit. Then ate a cracker, went back to class and cried because his tummy hurt - and they never called me! So annoyed! It was also pajama day, but they never sent anything home about it, so we didn't know :( He was sad because that's his favorite day. Tomorrow is orange and black (school colors) day, which I only know because another mom told me. His teacher sucks at communicating!!

I also got a Barnes & Noble package today (yes, I started my christmas shopping), and opened it up and it was empty!! Spent an hour on the phone with customer service, hopefully they figured it out.

October 23 & 24

We went to our third (and last) pumpkin patch of the season yesterday. Ethan was up sick part of the night, but he felt up to going out to lunch (didn't eat anything) and to the pumpkin patch. He slept most of the ride home, so of course he was up too late last night and didn't want to get up this morning. He stayed home from school today, as he still said his tummy hurt and he didn't really eat much all day. He had half a bowl of noodles for dinner, hoping for a big breakfast tomorrow. He has a 4 day week this week, so I'd hate him to miss any more of it.

His favorite thing at Papa's Pumpkin Patch yesterday was the pumpkin launcher. He was trying to get them through a small hole out in the field, to win a pumpkin. He got close, but didn't make it.Today he laid in bed most of the day, but when he started feeling a bit better we made this cool shrinky dink Halloween tree :) He loves shrinky dinks!