October 16

I was woken up at 6:30 this morning by Mr. Ethan begging me to go carve his pumpkin. I managed to fend him off until 8:30 (Spongebob was on, his latest "favorite" show), but then we got up and carved it. Of course, he won't do any of the actual work because he doesn't like the guts, but he did touch them this year, which is something I guess. He drew on the face too, and popped out the pieces.

Then we had all day to do crafts, so we decided to make jar pumpkins. I did the modge podging and E painted the stems, and drew the faces (which I cut out). I think they turned out super cute!

October 15

Today we went with Ethan's schoolmate, Ty and his mom and brother to the pumpkin patch. E had a ton of fun, it was their first out of school playdate (and Ethan's first playdate ever with a boy! LOL). The pumpkin patch was pretty cool, they had a whole barn full of corn with diggers, and a slide. They had a zipline, corn maze, petting farm, hay ride to pick your own pumpkin, and an awesome pumpkin catapult.

Ethan's favorite thing was the zipline, he went FLYING down it and just wanted to go again and again!

The corn barn, too funny that the "slide" is like this giant cardboard tube. Ethan said a giant must have run out of paper towel.

October 14

We are hoping to be making a trip to Disney next year for Ethan's 7th Birthday, so we've been watching all of our favorite Disney movies. This one was Beauty and the Beast (love his Beast socks that Momo brought him last year - so funny!). His singing was cracking me up especially since he doesn't know the words.




Then his socks became his Beast hands...

October 13

Thursdays are Cub Scout nights. Ethan is loving being a Cub Scout. Tonight he led the Cub Scout Promise, and the boys played "tiger tag" - no clue what this means, pretty sure its just tag but they pretend to be tigers. Then we went on a nature walk, and Ethan had to find as many different colored and shaped leaves as he could. We found probably 6 or 7 different ones, an acorn, a pinecone (with pokies on it...ouch!) and a walnut. Then they did leaf rubbings with them to put in their scrapbooks.

October 12

Spelling test day! Ethan got 4 wrong today, sinc (sink), tuist (twist), vare (very), and yoos (use). On the way home, he knew how to spell twist and sink, so hoping for 100% on Friday! Next week is the end of the first quarter already, hard to believe!

I had to send back E's costume, and they sent me out the smaller size. It should be here in a few days, Ethan is excited, he loves that thing. He was sad he didn't have it to put on today after school.

October 11

I have learned my lesson to never buy a Halloween costume on Ebay. After taking a week longer than they said to ship, Ethan's costume arrived today. Only problem is that I ordered a child's 7/8 and got a Teenager Medium (10 -12 I'm guessing?). Anywho, it's huge!! It hangs down to his ankles! He doesn't care a bit though. I'm hoping the seller will correct themselves, but if not we may keep it anyways. Hey, he could always wear it for the next 5 years LOL

I also made my first attempt at cake pops today. They don't look as good as the pictures I see online, but they taste good and for my first try, I don't think they turned out too bad. If you ever make them, remember to keep the balls small b/c if they are too big they will just fall off the stick as soon as you try to dip them in chocolate. I think I may make these for Ethan to bring as his Cub Scout treat next week.



E's still in shorts, it was in the high 70's today. They said it was going to rain, but it hasn't yet!

October 10, 2011

Yes, I made him climb in there with all the pumpkins that I had no intention of buying ~ They were sooo expensive!!

His favorite "pumpkin people" - Pokemon!

We had a great time in Kenosha this weekend seeing everyone! I can't believe that it was 80*, I so was NOT prepared for that weather at all! October is supposed to be long sleeves and pants, not shorts and short sleeves! What the heck?!

Saturday we went to the pumpkin farm with Nana, William & Aunt Sam. Ethan had a blast even thought it was soooo busy. My favorite part was the cookies of course, Ethan loved the corn & straw mazes. They also had this super cool built in bouncing "pumpkin pillow" that looked totally neat, but Ethan said it wasn't fun....not sure why. He wanted to go in the Haunted Corn Maze, but we all know I'm a chicken and was not about to go in there with him. I'm pretty sure that he would have hated it as soon as he got in there anyways, or at least I'm going to keep telling myself that so I don't feel like such a mean mom, depriving him of all that scariness and all.

In the corn maze ~ They are pretending to be lost & scared. lol

The pumpkin bouncy thing, you can sort of see them in the middle. I dropped my camera last week and now the zoom doesn't work :( I am horrible with cameras!!