Dress up/Early Halloween Fun

Francine (and Walt) loves to dress up. Tonight she saw her Halloween costume sitting out (dumb me for not putting in a bag) and she HAD to wear it, which would be fine if we didn't have a messy dinner and she wore it through dinner (I know that one is on me as a parent).

Anyway, she also loves to spin and spin, so here is a little of Francine the Pirate, and the end  is walt trying to scare her.  (which he loves to do)

Sleepy Francine

I'm not saying that Francine put herself to bed, but I will say that she took her own initiative in selecting her sleepwear after we closed her door....

Pumpkins 2012

Bob was not too interested in carving the pumpkins, but they turned out great. Walt requested a bat which bob hand drew, and Francine wanted a Happy Pumpkin. 
So tonight we lit them on our newly painted enterance.  (we just had all of the trim around our windows and in our enterance painted, wow what a difference it makes!)
Making roasted pumpkin seeds tomorrow. 

The kids can't wait to go to Gavin and Zoe's for Halloween!

Walt Playing Hockey

This past Sunday was Walt's third session of this "season".  He's definitely improved over last year, and you can tell that he's better on his skates.  He's also having a lot of fun playing and we all enjoy watching him go.  We have two videos, and in the first one, he's taking the puck and trying to score (he gets foiled on his first attempt, but that doesn't deter him) and eventually does with a pretty sweet backhand, and in the second, it's just a skating drill where he's going around some cones/tires on the ice working on his turns.  In both the videos, he's in a red jersey (just like most of the kids), and has a black helmet.  I try to keep him in the center of the frame while recording, so it should be somewhat easy to follow.  Good luck, and enjoy...

Soccer Season 2012

Walt joined the soccer team again this year.  Tommy and Bob were coaches for another season out in Fenton.  Walt has really improved a lot and really loved going to practice and the games.  Last year if you remember he would cry because he hated the games, but this year he was happy to go, but this year the competition got a little harder so a couple games he came out of the game crying because he knew that his team was going to lose.  Even though they really don't keep "score", most kids know that if you don't score you don't win.  So that was a little tough lesson for him to learn.  Francine LOVED going to Walt's games, and for the most part she was great.  I think that she will be a great soccer player some day.

Boo at the Zoo 2012

Ok, so i am pretty embarressed that it has been so many months without a post.  I have a lot of excuses ready for you, but in the end, I (we) just didn't get it done.   I think that we are back on track. In the next few weeks we are going to try to update from some of the exciting events that you missed. 

But something from yesterday.  We went to the annual event at the zoo called Boo at the Zoo.  The zoo is open at night and they decorate the trees and there are some fun animal shows in the theater.  It is cute.  The kids are going as Pirates this year (walt did go as a pirate as well last year, saving on another costume) :)  They are so sweet to each other, it is pretty cute that they want to be the same thing.