So now that October’s almost over, I’ll catch you all up on what’s been going on. Our school carnival was originally scheduled for D (diagnosis)-day. It was cancelled due to the flooding and various road closures in our area and obviously, as everything unfolded, we wouldn’t have gone anyhow. So it was rescheduled about a month later and we met up with our friends to have some carnival fun. It was a bit bittersweet to go … Mom had hoped to go with us and she would have loved it.
They did something new this year. Last year the food was pizza in the cafeteria, but this year they invited a few food trucks onto the blacktop and we could buy dinner from them … and the PTA got 15%. It was great fun.
Nothing active about this – I just enjoyed the colorful kids shoes laying on the lawn (while they went through the obstacle course).
I left a little while in to go check out a townhouse with my sister and missed about 45 min of the carnival and since the sun went down, many good photo-taking opportunities. The kids had a great time and played almost all of the games.
Saturday, we went out to Anderson Farms. We were invited by one of Ben’s classmates and as much as I hated to give up (another) big chunk of my weekend, most of our friends have kids Tabby’s age, not Ben’s and it was important for him.
The kids were thrilled to get out to “the farm.” It’s much more of an enterprise, of course. They had concessions, games, food, etc. Our friends had gotten a “private” campsite and we got to cook dinner around the fire and migrate back to it whenever we got cold throughout the evening.
They had some really cool pedal cars that the kids got into. I was amazed how well they were both able to keep up with kids twice their size/age. And Matt and I got to take a turn on the adult-sized version.
The people who invited us were as nice as could be and we really clicked with them and thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Ben and his little buddy especially enjoyed the DJ they had later on for the teen crowd that came out for the haunted corn maze. They danced their little 4-year old butts off. It was hilarious and adorable.
Poor Tabby coming off a long day including 1.5 hours of karate, was tired early and wanted to just cuddle by the fire. Eventually we had to head out and both kids were asleep before we turned onto the main highway.
Sunday we had another jam-packed day. We spent the morning around the house, working on re-oganizing Tabby’s room. Then we headed off to run a couple of errands and went home to put on costumes and head out to a party. On the way, we stopped by to visit my grandma. We wanted to see her and have the kids show off their costumes. Unfortunately, we were running late so it had to be a quick visit.
Some of our camping buddies had a great Halloween party. They had great food and planned tons of fun activities for the kids – apple bobbing, donut (on a string) eating, candy-corn relays, etc. They have an awesome backyard and the weather was amazing. It was a very good way to spend the afternoon and early evening.
Happy you have been having some fun!