While she was at the cheer clinic, Zack and I played games at home. I find it interesting that a 4 year old has a such an interest in Battleship, but he really does a decent job at playing and gets a huge smile when he makes a HIT!
Monday, October 05, 2009
Go Generals!
At Sydney's school they had a cheerleading "cheer clinic". It was a two night event where the kids learned cheers, and then they were going to join the cheerleaders at this weekend's football game. Unfortunately we won't be able to make the game, but Sydney had a great time learning the cheers - and later mentioned to me that she wouldn't want to cheer at the game because she would be nervous. She did a great job! That's her in the black pants and white t-shirt in the middle....
While she was at the cheer clinic, Zack and I played games at home. I find it interesting that a 4 year old has a such an interest in Battleship, but he really does a decent job at playing and gets a huge smile when he makes a HIT!
While she was at the cheer clinic, Zack and I played games at home. I find it interesting that a 4 year old has a such an interest in Battleship, but he really does a decent job at playing and gets a huge smile when he makes a HIT!
Zack's special day
Today the neighborhood playgroup met at Playground World. It's actually a store that sells playsets, but twice a week they invite people in to "try out the merchandise". I had never been there, so I decided to keep Zack home on my typical "Mommy Monday" and we went to playgroup. Not only did they have several of these cool playsets, they also had a train table which Zack spent a lot of time at.
After that, we went to our favorite library (which also has a train table) and I picked up some books for our upcoming camping trip to Hocking Hills.
For lunch, I had packed some sandwiches and snacks and we went to the 577 Foundation and ate in the garden.
It was a beautiful day for a "date" with Zack. He was having such a great time he did a little dance! See that big scratch on his nose? He tripped at Cedar Point a couple of days ago and did quite a face plant. ouch. We had such a good time we were late to pick up Sydney from school again this week. oooops. My record is not so good, I have to get better at being on time.
After that, we went to our favorite library (which also has a train table) and I picked up some books for our upcoming camping trip to Hocking Hills.
For lunch, I had packed some sandwiches and snacks and we went to the 577 Foundation and ate in the garden.
It was a beautiful day for a "date" with Zack. He was having such a great time he did a little dance! See that big scratch on his nose? He tripped at Cedar Point a couple of days ago and did quite a face plant. ouch. We had such a good time we were late to pick up Sydney from school again this week. oooops. My record is not so good, I have to get better at being on time.
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Pumpkin Patch
It's time to decorate for Halloween, and a trip to the pumpkin patch with Grandma & Grandpa was in order. We were remembering how last year it was almost 90 degrees when we visited, and this year it was probably about 55!
Here is a picture of the kids 3 years ago on their visit... they have really grown up in 3 years!
The little piggies were oh so cute, as always.
Zack demonstrated his super hero strength and had to carry his pumpkin over to the wagon. It's so cute that he tells us all of the time how strong he is.
In order to keep everyone happy, we had to take pictures of our pumpkins so no one fought over them when we got home!
The most interesting part of our visit was feeding the cows an apple! As soon was we walked over there with our apple, the cow stuck out his tongue - which was huge!! The instructions were to just roll it down his tongue, but the kids wanted no part of that. A big crowd gathered for the show. Alan was our brave feeder, and he did a great job.
Here is a picture of the kids 3 years ago on their visit... they have really grown up in 3 years!
The little piggies were oh so cute, as always.
Zack demonstrated his super hero strength and had to carry his pumpkin over to the wagon. It's so cute that he tells us all of the time how strong he is.
In order to keep everyone happy, we had to take pictures of our pumpkins so no one fought over them when we got home!
The most interesting part of our visit was feeding the cows an apple! As soon was we walked over there with our apple, the cow stuck out his tongue - which was huge!! The instructions were to just roll it down his tongue, but the kids wanted no part of that. A big crowd gathered for the show. Alan was our brave feeder, and he did a great job.
Halloweekends!
It's become our annual tradition to make at least one trip to Cedar Point during the summer, and then another in the fall for Halloweekends. For some reason our whole summer, and now fall, has been packed full of some scheduled activity every weekend - and this weekend was the only time we had free for our trip to Cedar Point. Unfortunately the beautiful weather was last weekend, and this weekend was really fall with the temps dipping into the 40's at night and hitting only around 60 during the day. We were debating if Saturday or Sunday would be the better day for our trip (which was a sure thing since I had already bought the discounted tickets at the Credit Union!) and after a whole morning of debating, we decided at 1:30pm that Saturday was going to be our day of fun - and that way we could rest on Sunday :)
We made it to the park by 3pm, but that was no problem since it was open until midnight. As always we had a great time on the kiddie rides and went through a haunted house (also for the kids). The park is so fun when it's all decorated for Halloween. The kids even got to see the "big kid" scarers as we had to use the restrooms located in one of the "Fright Zones". Maybe in a few years they will want to wander around there too!
Oh - and I have to mention the story of Sydney having her first "diva fit" about something she was wearing. It was chilly during the day so we wore hooded sweatshirts, with long sleeve t-shirts underneath them. That was sufficient until evening hit, so then we went out the car to put our jackets on. Well, I had only brought along our light jackets, so I told everyone to put the jacket right on top of the hooded sweatshirt. At that point Sydney started going into hysterics about how "no one wears them that way!" and she was not going to wear "2 coats"!! We tried to explain how it was cold and she needed to layer up, and we didn't have anything else to wear. Eventually she settled down and did the right thing, but boy did she put on a show for another car that was nearby in the parking lot!! geez! I can't wait for those teenage years! ;)
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