Happy Halloween, Time Change, Parent Teacher Conferences and Trial... oh my!

Halloween fell on a Tuesday and it just happened to be the only cold day we have had in weeks... so a little bit of a bummer. But that didn't stop us from trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. This was the first year where Henry was totally in... he had a blast running from one house to the next and yelling at David to keep up. 

my costume was a little tight over the winter gear!! But Henry wanted me to wear my matching Darth Vader suit... figure he won't really enjoy that for many years, so I obliged.

Henry's Halloween sing along. It was cute..

When he finally sees me in crowd and smiles... totally worth missing a morning of work on a super busy day (sort of).  I didn't take a video because honestly... I feel like parents miss so much these days trying to get things on video rather than actually witnessing the event. Literally, 99% of the audience just had the phones in front of their faces rather than watching the show. I am taking a personal stance to not do that, so.. no video, but a quite lovely memory of my sweet boy singing (although what he was singing - no clue)!

 David was off school on Thursday and Friday of last week... for parent teacher conferences. Love St. Mark's, but really.. two days off.. just two weeks before Thanksgiving.. for parent teacher conferences. Ok.. venting over. David had a blast with multiple playdates- he spent two nights at Evans house, then had Charlie over and then Bo and Charlie spent the night, then Evan was back to spend the night on Sat. By Sunday - we were all exhausted! 

Which is good - because on Sunday, we put Matt on a plane to head off to a 2-week trial. 2 weeks of single parenting... during the week we have earnings reporting and board meetings... yay!

 

 Some pictures of playdate fun:

I took the boys to Soar on Sat. to buy some time since Matt had to work 

Matt and I got in a nice dinner in on Sat. night before he left. No pictures, but this wine was pretty darn good.

Oh yea.. and the time changed...

On Friday of last week, it was Dads day at Henry's school. Here made this for Matt. I think he nailed everything but the age

We also had David's parent teacher conference on Friday. Got a great report. Here are some of the report card highlights:

We have campers .. and other weekend highlights

This weekend, Matt and David went on their first (of hopefully many) Cub Scout camping trip!! David had a blast and Matt survived.. .so I call it a complete success.


Pictures on the way out to camping:

Oh wait - don't forget toilet paper:

Camp pictures:

The green one is Camp Waterman... 

look how tall David is..

Matt on Sunday after getting home:

Henry and I had a fun weekend as well. We celebrated that he is officially night-time diaper free, which is actually huge news because this means Matt and I are out of the diaper buying business for good. On Saturday morning, Henry had an 8:30am soccer game. That would normally be awesome, but it was a little chilly - like 35 degrees. It didn't seem to both Henry and he played his normal 5 minutes without ever realizing a soccer game was happening. We then had breakfast with his friend Ramsey, which was fun, and then spent the afternoon at his school's Halloween Festival (Spooky Saturday). We cooked dinner together at the house, watched some tv (Curious George Halloween Special - featuring the legend of no-noggin) and went to bed early. It was a perfect day. 

Henry is obsessed with no-noggin (from the Curious George show) and wanted to make a scarecrow for the house to see if it would kick off the trick-or-treaters hats. So... after David and Matt got back home Sunday morning, I took the boys to the store to get scarecrow making supplies (which consisted of some spray paint and sticks as I have no clue how to make a scarecrow).  Matt slept - see above. Apparently, he doesn't find the calm outdoors very peaceful for sleeping. 

Here is what we ended up with... Henry loves it and Ollie won't stop barking at it. We decided the backyard was the best place for it... because, well, we would like for our neighbors to continue speaking to us (-: 

Beautiful Weather.. Sick Mommy

This weekend was just gorgeous.. unfortunately, I was a little under the weather with a cold.  In an effort to will the cold away, however, we managed to have a packed weekend. Friday evening we took the boys to a Halloween party at a law firm and David left the party with his friend for a sleepover. Henry had some mommy and daddy time before falling asleep early - which was great, because we got to watch a movie! Saturday - Henry had a soccer game, David had a baseball game and Henry had a playdate with Oliver (his current BFF). We all had a family dinner together at our favorite sushi place and then came home and watched a family movie - Flubber (yep, the one from the 90's with Robin Williams. Boys loved it). A big storm came in Saturday night, cancelling the Sunday baseball games, so we spent the day at the zoo enjoying amazing weather. We wrapped up the weekend with pumpkin decorating. Good times!

Pictures aren't really in order:

This was from Friday morning. Apparently, Henry captured a lizard in the middle of the night and slept with it. The lizard didn't survive. I was making pancakes and Henry marked into the kitchen and announced - Mom, did you know that dogs bite lizards. Me- Why do you say that Henry? Henry - Because I found this pet lizard last night and Ollie bit him.

I didn't get a picture of Storm Tropper David... but Henry makes a super cute Darth Vader.

The epic Oliver-Henry playdate.

We grabbed some Carlos bakery after dinner on Sat. David wanted to take a picture with this guy. I asked him if he knew who it was and he said he was sure someone famous because everyone else was taking a picture. ...