October 21

Ethan got a 100% on his spelling test, woo hoo! We are at Granny's house this weekend, and tonight made caramel apples. Ethan ate his without caramel (weirdo), he's trying to get his loose tooth to fall out! No success yet, but it is getting looser and looser. I think he may be singing "All I Want For Christmas is my Two Front Teeth" this year!

October 20

Tonight at Cub Scouts, we looked at maps and had to find where we live on a World Map, U.S. Map, Missouri Map, County Map & City Map. Then they played a little game and for snack they made ants on a log. I am shocked that Ethan not only tried it, but ate 4 of them! Of course, he wouldn't touch the celery, but they brought toast too :)

We also stopped in the big consignment sale on post. They had almost no clothes in his size, I was hoping to find a winter coat for him, but they had nothing!! He did find a Pokemon DS game for $4!! and an entire bag of Pokemon books for $3, so he was happy.

October 19

It was so cold today!! I was not prepared for 40* weather, poor Ethan doesn't even have a winter coat yet. I felt like the worst mother ever when all the other kids came out of school with winter coats & mittens and my kid had this thin little fall jacket (well actually he had that in his backpack, b/c he really wanted to make me look bad with NO coat on!) So goal of the next week is to find E a cute winter coat for less than $50. The one I like the best is $78!!

October 18

Ethan is offically signed up to play basketball! He's totally excited, I don't have the heart to tell him he's too short to dunk :P At the sign up place, they had cheerleader sign ups also....apparently he has some natural ability at that sport, not sure where he learned this.....


It was cold out today, and he got to wear this super cute outfit for the first time. Of course when I picked him up from school he was covered in paint!! All the way to his shoes :( It better come out!!

October 17

Today we attempted to decorate the front of our house. Ethan saw these tombstones at the dollar store and thought they were the coolest thing ever. Unfortunately shortly after this photo was taken, one blew away and we dont know where it went :( They were really light, and we had no way to stick them in the ground (thought they would have some sort of sticks or something in the bottoms). Oh well, it was cool for about 10 minutes.

AHHHH! A Zombie!!!

We did find this disgusting/cool slug. It was the biggest slug I have ever seen, and it left this nasty slimy trail behind it. Bleck!

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.