Do they celebrate Halloween at Boarding School?

Ah, Jacob is 3 years old and just completed his first "homework assignement" yesterday. He had to sort objects and we had to note how he did it. Well he was apparently not in the mood to sort or comply with instructions. It was a battle that lasted about 2 hours (including time-outs, being sent to his room, threatening not to go to "Holyween") and finally the assignment got completed. So, I have been researching boarding schools today. I cannot do 12 years of real homework if its going to be like that! I hope the next assignment goes better or I may get serious about this boarding school stuff. I did have conferences with Jacob's teacher today and he said he is doing well with most things, listening pretty well, has lots of friends, just needs to work on writing and cutting mostly.

Even though we threatened not to go to "Holyween" (our church's Halloween celebration), we did end up going last night. We took our Spiderman and Chunky Monkey to church for the cupcake walk, crafts, bingo and then "Trunk or Treating". People decorate their trunks or back ends of their SUVs and Vans and hand out candy. Jacob had a great time and did a great job trunk or treating. He said "so, at Holyween I say 'trunk or treat' and at Halloween I'll say "trick or treat' ", so smart when it comes to getting candy. Jacob gets to dress up for school on Wednesday and then we have a MOMS Club Halloween party on Thursday. I don't know where or if we'll go trick or treating on Friday night yet, we may have had enough Halloween by then and we can just hand out candy here.

This is the costume Drea bought Jacob for last year, but it didn't quite fit him.

On Saturday, Jacob and Fred carved pumpkins.

Gavin is fast these days. He is crawling all over. He loves to crawl into the bathrooms by the toilets. Gross! Then he stands up and gets toilet paper and, of course, puts it in his mouth. Yuk! He is also showing other boy traits, such as "driving" cars and playing with balls - even scoring some points on the basketball "court". He also started ECFE (Early Childhood and Family Education) classes last week. I was hoping we would seperate in the class, so he would get more used to doing that, but we haven't yet and I don't think we will. So I am paying money to go play with my kid, which I could do at home. Jacob does get to go to sibling care and play with out kids, so he likes that and I am meeting more moms with kids Gavin's age. Dylan in Gavin's class is just a little older than him and they enjoy hanging out near each other. Dylan's mom thinks I am a rock star for having 2 kids, I won't be introducing her to my friends with 4 or 6 kids:)

He shoots, he scores!

Yes, I'll eat anything.

Fred was in Alabama last week with work. Adrea came down to help out on Monday night and my mom came on Tuesday and stayed until Thursday. So really, it was a pretty easy week. Fred got home on Friday and I went out on a girls night to PF Changs - yum! Then on Saturday night we had our church card club here. We had a good turn out and had lots of fun playing 500 and enjoying all the appetizers.