We have enough interest that the Peep Show will go on! It will be smaller than previous years, but that is okay. :)
All-O-ver, Ol-i-vore . . . we're learning that Oliver's name has some fun mispronunciations.
Also, ask him what is name is and this is what you'll hear: "My name is Oli . . . Oli . . . Oliv . . . Oli . . . I don't know."
Here I am at SFO. Again. What should have been a 40 minute layover has turned into a 5 hour layover with merely a possibility of getting on the red-eye at 10:30. Flying standby. And if I don't get on the standby flight . . . they tell me my next shot at JFK isn't for 24 hours. Yeah. So let's hope that doesn't happen. And if I don't get on standby, well, there's got to be another way home.
S: Oliver, Is Mom a child of God?
O: Yes!
S: No, Mom is a grown up!
The one night -- ever -- when Micah and I get to bed at 10:00 and could, feasibly, get 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep, Simon wakes up crying inexplicably at midnight and can't go back to sleep, Oliver falls out of bed, and we're all out a couple of hours of sleep. Clearly we need to never try to go to to bed early. It's the only way to get a good night's sleep around here.
Micah won the company costume contest and we now have a $75 gift certificate to Old Navy. Way better prize than the marathon.
Simon was a really, really cute fish. Micah made the costume and it is awesome. You’ll have to wait for pictures though because we didn’t get any on our camera.
I was the fishing pole and I caught the Simonfish several times, as well as the Grinch, Cindy-Lou Who, and Max the Dog.
We had a delicious meal of pumpkin soup, meal-in-a-pumpkin, and pumpkin cheesecake with some of our wonderful friends.
Simon learned how to trick-or-treat. Sort of. He was confused whenever we had to leave somebody’s door, but he was always excited about going to the next one. I think he likes to meet new people.
I love that he was not getting into the grab and go feeling that so often comes with trick-or-treating. He seems to be a down to earth kid, who sincerely wants to know those who are being so kind and indulging him in little goodies.
Hope the entire family enjoyed the festivities!
I can’t wait to see Micah’s costume, and I am so not surprised that he took 1st place. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if he takes 1st place in every costume contest he enters from now until he dies…
I love the pumpkin. I think it is a very good picture!