Trick or Treat

We had fun trick or treating. It wasn't too cold - and E did really good walking (ok being carryed most of the time) and not being scared. It was after dark, which I still think is odd because you've got little kids walking around in the dark and all kinds of cars driving their kids around - just trick or treat in your own neighborhood!! He went up to the houses by himself except for the ones that had fog - those he skipped. He got a ton of candy, 10 cents, and a fiber one bar LOL

We also went to trunk or treat at the high school which was kind of lame, but I think he liked it. All the girls complimented him on his converse.
All ready to go!

Trunk or treat - lost the face paint already.

Going trick or treating - with no horns

His haul

Now he is starting to get sick. Lots of sneezing & stuffy/runny nose. I loaded him up with chest rub & a fan tonight so hopefully he'll feel better in the morning. I hate to keep him out of school, but I guess we'll see how he feels tomorrow.

oooo spooky

We carved our pumpkins today, well Bill's & my own since Ethan's was already carved from 2 weeks ago (and is now in the trash b/c it was all moldy - ewww). I let E draw my face on, and he tried to help carve it, but it was too hard for him to do.


Our pumpkin seeds are soaking in water right now, I'm going to bake them tomorrow. E said he really really wanted to eat them, and then told me he tried them at school and they were gross...so I'm betting he isn't really going to eat them, typical.


Here are a few pictures from the park yesterday, and one of our pumpkin pizza we had for dinner last night - it was really cute but didn't taste that great way too much cheese!

Happy Birthday Sami (Yesterday)

Sorry Sami! We didn't forget, I was trying to get a good picture of Ethan, but have decided that is not going to happen because my camera is not cooperating, so happy birthday!

Bill is in shock that you are a teenager - and I gotta say it's making me feel really old too!

Here's to a wonderful year for you! We love you!

Look what Ethan found

Grandma Pat this is for you...we found this cute little tiny snake in our driveway today. At first we thought it was a worm, but it's just a teeny snake. It's so cute & also dead. Bill thinks maybe a bird dropped it out of it's mouth, and I'm hoping so because I don't want to think that mama snake is around our yard somewhere...ewww!


It was another nice day and we played chalk & bubbles. The ice cream man even came by today...zooming down the hill. I'm fairly certain he couldn't have stopped at our house if we wanted him to since he was going so fast down the hill. Ethan wrote some messages in the chalk, and I have to say his handwriting is already improving yay!

Happy Birthday Papa!

Today was a lovely day - probably mid 70s I'm guessing. We played outside most of the afternoon. Funny how all summer long all this kid wanted to do was play video games, and now he wants to play outside. He did all the things he didn't want to do this summer - played in his sand box, played with (in) his water table, even got out the sprinkler.

Happy Birthday to Papa! Hope you have a great day!! We didn't pick this outfit intentionally, but after we realized that I had dressed him in that today, Bill thought it was really funny.


Bill found out today that his leave days for Christmas will be December 20 - January 2 so we will mostly likely be in Wisconsin then. I have to find out when E's last day of school before Christmas is, don't want him to miss anything good (like a Christmas party!).

First Week of School

E's first week of school in the new class was successful. He was a bit crabby a few days, and didn't want to go, but once he was there he had fun. He is definately more challenged in this class, and is actually learning things. Right now they have him working on his writing, which is for sure the area he needs the most work on. He knows how the letters go, but he's very messy and not good at keeping them the same size.

On Thursday of this week, he has his first field trip - to the pumpkin farm. I asked if I could go, and they said I can. Ethan informed me that he's not sitting next to me on the bus - he's sitting next to a girl. He's so sweet =P

He's getting into the groove of getting up early & going to bed earlier. Of course, this backfires on us when it's Saturday morning and he's up at 6:30, but I guess that's better than him not wanting to get up the rest of the week.

He also carved the first of his pumpkins this week - well ok, he picked the stencil and I carved it. It's supposed to be Minnie Mouse, but the knife thingy broke in the middle of it, and it kind of looks like a blob. He's happy though, so that's what matters. The rest of our pumpkins are going to be traditional faces though!

I guess in the picture it does kind of look like Minnie. Awesome!

I tried to take a few pictures of Ethan & Elvis together yesterday, because Elvis was sitting nice. Of course as soon as E comes and sits next to him, he starts giving him dog kisses - GROSS!

Mommy's Little Devil

Here's a little sneak peek of E in his Halloween costume, tons more pictures to come I'm sure. We finally found a pitch fork at the PX today, and I let him try on his costume...he's still wearing it 4 hours later...at least he likes it!