Weekend update

Most of Brady's Kindergarten class, there are several shots of this group, but the number of children fluctuates in each frame...getting 5&6 year olds to hold still must be like herding cats. Brady's buddies (Larry was in charge of B and the boy in blue who Larry described as "greased lightning". I wonder if that's why he was assigned to the "dad" chaperon.)

Natalie with her ghost (which lasted about 3 minutes before being destroyed and devoured. The spiders didn't even make it off the table.

Brady couldn't leave Merch-bot without these. I kept teasing him that his moustache was really nosehair. He made several people downtown smile that day.

Friday was Larry's last day of vacation, and it was also Brady's first field trip so Larry chaperoned the trip to Stoneyridge Farm.

It was a whirlwind trip, the bus didn't leave the school until after noon, and had to be back by 2, so the kids had the edited version of the tour. Larry said it was like 6 minutes at each event before re-boarding the bus for home; which I'd like to point out the bus ride was NOT Brady's favorite part of the field trip, the giant rope swing was.

Saturday we went to Brady's first soccer game (they are the red rattlesnakes) and they "won". This will be the last year the B plays indoor soccer, as his skills are improving, and it's very hard to kick a soccer ball and keep up with it on a gymnasium floor.

Afterwards, the kids and I wandered through downtown visiting Fiamma burger, Merch-bot, Kids Northwest, Mallards, Avellino, Hols, and Clark's.

THEN we went to Haggen and participated in their Halloween crafts, an Oreo spider and a lollipop ghost. It was sweet because when we walked in, 2 of the employees greeted Brady and Natalie by name, which made them feel at ease, and made me feel a little more connected to my local store (or is it just that I dump my kids at the daycare there so often that they're known as "those poor Allred children"?)

We woke up to frost this morning, regardless of the sunny blue skies. Maybe we'll carve pumpkins and visit the still pregnant Carly. Maybe we'll paint her belly like a jack-o-lantern and kill two birds with one stone...