School Pics

Not that we need more pictures of the boys, but I have already gotten in the habit of downloading Cole's pictures from school that they post on their Shutterfly site. Kind of annoying, but since I do it I might as well post them.

From what I gather, this is Cole's 5th grade buddy, not a giant kindergartner. And if you didn't realize it, that is not his real face. We decided it may be frowned upon to post pics of other people's children, and maybe creepy or weird..? Not sure so we're playing it safe. The group class pics seemed okay for some reason.

Cole watching the lady below.

I'm not sure what she is dressed up as, but thank god for people like her. I wouldn't dress up like that if I were alone in my house much less in front of people. 

 
Henry was Star of the Week at school. I don't know all the ins/outs of Star of the Week but he made a poster, Kristin went in and read to his class and he got to be line leader all week, very exciting stuff! He seemed to enjoy the extra attention, but that's no surprise. He always enjoys attention.

I'm afraid Cole is a "friend zone" kind of guy. 

Super Heroes

Before we get to the recent dress up parties, we went to the Elegant Farmer this weekend and got some pumpkins. Nothing too exciting, beyond just people watching. A lot of dirtballs go to the Elegant Farmer. I also don't know why adults that do not have kids have any interest in hay rides and pumpkin patches. But they do. Do they not realize they could go to a bar and have wings and beer? That's what I would be doing.

Who watches tv like this...definitely not me and Kristin.

The Hanlon's gave us a bag full of old costumes and now we are having constant costume parties. Hopefully this will take off some of that Halloween stress, trying to decide what to be. Sadly, it has meant the boys constantly come to us to help put on the outfits.

One costume not shown is Henry being "Belt Boy." All he does is wear the Batman belt, calls himself Belt Boy and attacks you.

Boba Fett

Spider men (really just Hen's pjs)

Uh oh! Spidey on Spidey crime. 

Super Man

We call this Dark Spider Man. It also gives Henry a huge wedgie, which is pretty funny. 

Batman

Boba

Batman again. Just hanging out, reading some numbers.

Fireman

We are crossing our fingers Henry is happy with one of these many options for his Halloween costume. He told us he wants to be a "Red Circle," which is his favorite color and his favorite shape. Not too hard to pull off but not as easy as pulling one of these from the bin of costumes.

Who's Worse...

Kristin and I did not shine as parents this weekend. I like to think that we are usually pretty good, but we both made bad decisions.

On Friday night, Kristin and our neighbor decided to have four bottles of wine during "driveway beers". Kristin did this knowing that Cole had a 9:00 a.m. soccer game on Saturday, not to mention a bunch of other stuff going on that day. Not surprisingly, she was too hungover to make it to soccer. Then she was too hungover to make it to 12:00 p.m. swim lessons. She popped out of our room for about three minutes to take two bites of the wonderful dinner I prepared (Mac & Cheese) and then went to bed. Obviously, she also did not do the typical Kristin work she is supposed to do on Saturdays (e.g. cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, etc.).

Henry did not dress appropriately for Cole's soccer game. He was still insisting on wearing shorts this morning, so I don't think he learned his lesson.

The boys enjoyed their first trip to Subway (as we were trying to take care of ourselves while Kristin was incapacitated).

My bad decision: The short version would be...a four and five year old and a scooter for eight year olds...what could go wrong?

If you recall, awhile back we posted pics of the scooter Great Grandpa acquired and gave to the boys. Grandpa recently secured training wheels to it, so the boys could ride solo and safely. I decided we should take the scooter to Cole's school and give the boys a larger area to ride around on. Cole did great and was cruising around at top speed. Henry tried it out, but fell twice. I was smart enough to run along the side of him, so I managed to catch him on his falls.

Cole wanted to go up and down the little hill they have in the parking lot. I was a little nervous, but he tried it and did fine. Then he tried it again, got going too fast, and had a huge wipe out. He had road rash on his shoulder, elbow and both knees. It looked awful and I thought he was seriously injured when I saw it happen. Luckily, right as I was about to pull out of the driveway, Cole remembered the helmets so no brain damage (that we've noticed).

I'm proud to say Cole was super tough about it, barely cried and shook it off real quick. I think it just scared him more than anything. Then at the park he got stuck on this climbing net and I told him to just jump down and he would be fine. After some encouragement from me, he finally jumped. Of course, his foot got caught and he fell right on his back. More tears. We decided to go home soon thereafter.

A video of the crash is posted at the bottom of the blog. It is hard to catch the full fall because I saw it coming and started to panic, so the video was no longer a priority.