October

I knew when I filled out our cute wall calendar at the beginning of October that it was going to be a busy and eventful month. I was right. So here goes post  1 of 2 to catch up on our October happenings. We went to Disney on Ice with Grandma and the cousins, but the suite we were in proved to be more fun that watching the show for my kids. I'm glad we had the suite but I couldn't keep them watching the show. They were climbing on things and hiding in closets and just everything but watching.

The first quarter of school ended and both kids did really well. Andi got straight A's, and Sam got the equivalent of that in numbers since 2nd grade still does not use letter grades for who knows what reason. Parent teacher conferences also happened and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Sam did really well with the testing they do each quarter with the new common core stuff. Apparently he's really smart, which is part of his behaving in class problem. He gets bored. But his teacher this year is amazing and he's doing so much better. In our house good grades get ice cream.

I was able to go on our youth Temple trip with the Young Women. Every single one of these kids had family names to do work for, which was really impressive. Our group keeps growing and I'm loving all our new girls.

Soccer has been in full swing and Andi has become a decent little goalie. Her team party is tonight, and luckily for us the team sponsor owns a taco place. .. no pizza party for us!  After her game one saturday we stopped at a barber shop to get the boys hair cut. Normally I do it, but I didn't want to. Peter loved his handsome hair, but I'm not sure why he's smiling crookedly.

Sammy on the other hand was not happy. He hated the product they put in and the way they combed it and all the way home kept saying he couldn't go to school with his hair like that and he looked dumb. I could not figure out why because it looked so good! After he showered out all the gunk and tamed it down he was fine with it. Who knew he was so picky!

We hit the pumpkin patch early this year, which was good because it wasn't crowded and because the pumpkins were able to cheer up our little porch for a couple weeks. But Peter is used to carving the pumpkins right away and every day he asked "is it pumpkin day yet?!" It drove him crazy to have to wait to carve them.

We got to watch Alexis and Ashlynns girls one afternoon and Andi was a big help. She said she was practicing for Babysitting. They were all watching Curious George in the car while we waited for Andi at piano lessons.

Maggie just loves Sammy.

And Opal looks like she wasn't sure about this adventure, but she was having a great time too. 

We did eventually carve the pumpkins and Peter was so happy. Peters happy face, Sams scary face, and Andi's cat and moon.

Halloween felt like it was strung out this year. Andi had 4 dress up occasions. An activity days party, her first friends party, the ward trunk or treat, and the actual Halloween day. I don't think I like Halloween enough to make it a week long event.

The kids boycotted our family costume this year and Andi chose to be Hermione, Sammy went as Ash and Peter was Pikachu. We kept calling him Peterchu and it made him so mad.

These kids brought home so much candy it's ridiculous. They aren't even concerned when Thad and I take some because they realize they have way more than they could ever eat.

 

And Peter was his normal adventurous self this month as well. 

There is no keeping him in anymore. I might just low jack him so I can always find him when he escapes.  Tattooing our address might also be effective, so whoever finds him can return him.