October was super busy for me with PTA things and Halloween costumes and Reflections Contests and I’m not even sure what all. I just know that I didn’t get a lot of time to breathe and put my feet up!
Bobby found his stuffed raccoon in his toy box and loved on that thing for weeks. It was always under his arm and melted my heart to see it! There is just something so adorable about a boy lugging around a raccoon!
Rusty continued his therapy for his feet. Twice a week he met with Eli and stretched those muscles during what Rusty considered a bunch of games.
He adored Eli and was not super thrilled the couple of times we went when Eli couldn’t be there.
Rusty still toe walks habitually, but at least he now is ABLE to walk correctly. Before therapy, that wasn’t even an option! He continued his therapy through November and early December before being declared good to go. We still have to practice his stretches at home, but his feet have greatly improved!
When I get busy, I’ll admit it, we have cereal for dinner more than we probably should. Bobby likes the Lucky Charms. Or I should say, he likes the marshmallows from the Lucky Charms. And there is no need to wait for a bowl – it is just as easy to pick out the marshmallows straight from the box!
I took Tommy and Bobby out for lunch one day. We went to Arctic Circle and they had a great time on the play set.
We have a thing for board games at our house. Perfection was the game of choice most of October. Bobby had to sit on the table so he could be closer to the board so that he could squeal every time the time ran out and the pieces jumped into the air!
Little boys in overalls is my favorite!
Billy had a piano recital in October. The students were allowed to wear their costumes. We didn’t have his all the way finished yet, but he opted to wear it anyway. Billy’s piano teacher is more of a music teacher and has her students do more than just piano. For this recital, Billy had to compose a short song. The students also did a music project where they explored some part of music besides piano – some learned about a music genre, others learned about a composer … Billy learned how to play a song with the Boom Whackers! His teacher had him perform his song, “Baa Baa Black Sheep” at the beginning of the recital. You can see him perform at his recital HERE.
While sorting through the costume box, I found the little Batman costume. I loved this costume. I loved my boys in this costume. Bobby wasn’t going to Batman for Halloween – that was Billy – but I still had to have a picture of him in this dang cute costume!
We finally had vision insurance again, so the boys and I went to the eye doctor. The Nintendo DS’s came in handy occupying the boys while they waited their turn. The verdict … they all have perfect vision, a couple of them have more than perfect vision. No glasses for any of them in the foreseeable future. Whew!
Bobby doesn’t play video games yet, so I was his entertainment – and selfies make him happy!
He didn’t get to have his eyes examined yet, but he did take a turn in the chair. And he gave the eye doctor an awesome look! Our eye doctor is wonderful and played right along!
Kevin and I went out to dinner at The Training Table one evening. We used to go to the one in Provo a lot when we lived there and didn’t even realize that the one up here was still open. It was very nostalgic and the dipping sauce is still one of my favorites!
Billy’s orthodontics work began! He had an expander put in and every other night for 8 weeks we had to crank it a little bit wider. I had one when I was about Billy’s age and just couldn’t bring myself to ever do the cranking – that lot fell on Kevin’s shoulders.
Billy was really brave and never complained about food getting stuck or aching from his jaw moving.
Ricky had a doctor’s appointment that Tommy and Bobby had to come along to. All three ended up getting flu shots and all of them had to sit on the exam table together. Kodak moment that I couldn’t resist!
Our town puts on a Halloween celebration that they call the Hooper Haunt. There are spooky displays, carved pumpkins, luminaries, a spook alley, and more. Our PTA put together this display with the help of Ricky’s class.
Several of the displays this year were photo ops. My favorite was this one with the head in the jars…
This year there was a pirate ship for the boys to climb on. This was Bobby’s favorite thing of the evening!
Here is our family, by the light of the van’s dome light…
We love Halloween!
And I love this little boy – especially in overalls!!!
Our central vacuum system stopped working – some sort of a clog in the pipes. We blamed Bobby since he liked to talk into the openings as though it was an intercom system. It wasn’t easy to fix the clog, so it fell low on the priority list for a while. Our cats were very interested in the process …
High on the priority list was finishing the boys’ Halloween costumes. I love making these for them – it makes me very happy! This year, Ricky was a hobo clown, Billy was Batman with Bobby as his Robin, Rusty wanted to be a spider, and Tommy was happy to be a clown (I do love when my boys dress up like clowns!).
The boys’ school had a costume parade. Bobby came with me but wasn’t quite brave enough to walk around with his brothers.
He did brave up to walk through the gym next to Billy though. So. Dang. Cute.
A good friend of ours passed along her family’s Thomas the Train stuff that they didn’t use any more. Bobby was in train heaven and just adores Mrs. Buck for sharing!! (and more overalls!)
