Fathers....

Shane took Buddy to soccer practice for me today.....halfway through practice I got this picture texted to me....

That's my pride and joy playing in a drainage pipe, a pipe might I add, that I never let him play in because all the stray animals lollygagging around pretending the pipe is a toilet. Oh well, I guess will just add one more animal to the lollygagging experience! So all in all a super fantastic, gross, day!

Storytelling goes a bit overboard....

I ordered a Yoda figurine a while back to assist out the family with some awesome Star Wars duties when it comes to trick or treating. Anyway, our Yoda arrived today and like any good mother, I slipped him into Buddy's bed between the sheets to give him a little scare. Worked like a charm! Matter of fact, I moved Yoda into the hallway and then it worked like a charm at least 15 times more! Of course Yoda has now been relegated into a corner of my room because Buddy kept forgetting that Yoda was lurking in the hallway....well, you get the picture. Being the true thespian he is though, he had to take advantage of the Yoda before exiling him....

 That darn force gets you every time! So all in all a super fantastic, doing Luke and Leia proud, day!

Memories....

Maybe I'm just getting really old, but I don't remember Princess Leia being that flat chested....

Just kidding, that was part of my costume, here is my boy in his full regalia....

Hmmmm, maybe it's just me, but I actually like the first costume better! At least he has a backup plan in case it's too hot on Halloween to wear the storm trooper costume....he is a cub scout after all and being prepared is in the motto! In other news, only 16 more days till my parents come! Nope, still not counting! So all in all a super fantastic, memory serves, day!

Patchy....

I took my favorite little boy to the pumpkin patch, it only took 3 hours to get there(it's only 45 minutes from my house)......hmmm, who knew you could get lost on such a tiny island......It just goes to prove that anything is possible, especially with me at the helm! Anyway, immediately after the pumpkin patch we squeezed in a soccer game before heading home. When we arrived home Buddy declared today the "best day ever". I'm starting to think this boy has selective memory because he sat out 3 quarters of the game due to a knee injury which is now wrapped, elevated and iced. I guess a little pain won't damper the awesomeness of this....

It's not odd that I spent EVERY SINGLE PENNY I had on me buying ridiculously large pumpkins is it? Nah, money well spent, although somehow once again I got relegated to the job of skinning the insides of the pumpkins while the boys, well, I'm not sure what the boys did. I even tried to be sneaky this year and brought home one of Buddy's soccer teammates after the game thinking that pumpkin gutting is funner with a friend....guess I thought wrong! Tomorrow we will be conquering the pumpkin designing of awesomeness, so all in all a super fantastic, pumpkin, day!

Borrowing and lending.....

Tonight while I was having some sweet cuddle time with my boy....

He decided he should borrow my hair and take lots of pictures.....

He snapped about 50 pictures of himself with hair....possibly for posterity since his dad never lets him grow it more than an inch, and genetics is not on his side for a full head of hair past the ripe old age of 25! Poor kid, it's rough when your own father has a case of hair envy! Thankfully, I'm more than willing to share, although he may not want to anymore, because afterwards, when he was looking at the pictures he remarked he looked just like his cousin Sara! Of course last time he saw Sara she was on a month long stint of not brushing her hair. I wonder what he's saying about my hair? So all in all a super fantastic, hairy, day.

Using our time wisely....

Buddy had another tennis lesson today. Unfortunately, I think the tennis coach forgot, thankfully though, the boys thought of something they could do while waiting for him.....

Who knew that tennis rackets made such good machine guns? Oh wait, everything in the hands of these 7 year olds makes good machine guns! So all in all a super fantastic, wisely used time, day!

Ichabod?

We're just getting into the Halloween Spirit by reincarnating the headless couchdad, no biggie.....

In other news I ordered a life-sized Yoda today, cause no family is complete without one.....errrrr, is that just weird? Ah, who cares, Halloween is awesome and we are just getting prepared! So all in all a super fantastic, my parents will be here in 22 days (but who's counting), days!!!!