School Loop is a blessing and a curse. It is the app that tells me each day every grade Scout has in every class — on his homework and quizzes and tests. That being said, we all have a love/hate relationship with it. But maybe Scout’s relationship weighs more heavily on the hate side, because I received this Email today:
Interesting.
I think Scout gets an A+ in Being Crafty 101.
There is some pretty BIG NEWS today!
Dash turns seven years old. How is he seven? But he is…and he was sure to remind me when I woke him up this morning, telling him Happy sixth Birthday. I told him that it must be his seventh birthday, because six year olds are still sweet to their mamas. Because when I was waking him up ever so kindly with the Birthday Song, he kept making obnoxious noises from his mouth.
And when I asked him the question I have asked him since he could talk, “How much do you love your mama?” He said ZERO! I have always been a “million percent mom”, but now that he is seven and stinky — I got ZERO!
Happy Birthday you little seven-year-old Weasel.
Nonnie just KNEW that Pippi needed her very own pink suitcase. When we came home from back east, I brought a new suitcase for Scout and Navy. Pippi was enamored by them, so Nonnie went on the search. We finally found it while walking through Nordstrom. Hard shell and light pink — perfect! Pippi has been at home all afternoon packing and repacking her suitcase that has “the most compartments out of everyone! Boo Yeah!!”
Pippi set up her own bobbing apple station today. She only had one apple, and she was determined to get it! Micah videotaped it, and it was hilarious. She worked so hard — SO HARD, but didn’t want to get her hair wet. Her plan was to get it by the stem, but her overbite wouldn’t let her get it! It was pretty hilarious. And right when Micah said he was going to turn the video off, she came up with a huge apple hanging from its stem out of her teeth!
Nice determination!
After Trunk or Treating last night, the kids had more candy than they knew what to do with! But as usual — trading was a must.
Navy set up a rad quadrant so everyone could have their spot.
And then the trading began!
Navy was trying to get every mini marshmallow bag. Pippi was going for the Tootsie Rolls. Dash was going for who knows what???
And Scout was going for the Smarties…he said something about “You are what you eat”!!!
I told him I wasn’t so sure he was “smart” by opening every single Smartie and dumping them all in a huge Ziploc alongside candy corns and other junk!
Whatever — at least when I dump all of it in a few days, it will be easy to dump one huge bag over little rolled candies all over the house.
We had the primary program today, and to see it was phenomenal is a huge understatement! It was sooo good! Dash opened it with an amazing poem my mom wrote. Pippi and Scout gave great parts — also written by my mom. Scout also sang a little solo in one of the songs, and he did a nice job. And Navy … Navy brought the house down with a talk I wrote about our CYOA this past summer. It was all so good…and my mom does such a huge service to all of my kids — and for all of the primary kids for that matter. This is a blessing in my life that I will forever be grateful for!
Who knew that these actually took me a long time to make!
But sooo worth it.
I love the ghosts!
I especially loved them making their rounds during the Trunk or Treat tonight!
Ha!!!
When I walked into the house and saw Scout in very small Tighty Whities — I started cracking up! Apparently, he is “Captain Underpants” with his red shirt around his shoulders. I told him it was a stretch — he looked more like “Captain Crazy”, but did encourage him to go to any Halloween parties in the get up. He assured me he would!
(I actually wouldn’t doubt it one bit!)
Our neighbors are great! They are always leaving treats on our front door for our kids. They left this Halloween decoration for us today, so we were making a thank you video. It only took us 7 takes to get one that was decent! Pippi was in a mood, Scout thought he was hilarious by not cooperating, and Navy’s heinous facial expressions each time were Halloween scary! Thank goodness for the Perkowskis and for Dash.
Pippi was hilarious at Trader Joe’s today. She had her own cart, and was literally rocking out to their music for ten minutes straight. She had a little crowd watching her, and she was oblivious that all eyes were on her. When I finally got my camera out, I only caught about 10 seconds before she caught me, and then turned “shy”. She is awesome. She is so fun to take places. And it wasn’t just my day made as she was rocking out to the music with turns and bopping with each step.
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