::today::

Kris is gone on business which stinks. He'll be back very soon, but I don't like it when he's gone at all.
It finally feels like fall here, today was pretty cold. In fact I've been overly warm ever since we moved so I've tried to avoid wearing coats and sweaters because I just have to take them off. Today I wore elbow sleeves and I was freezing picking up Max from school.
I had a dr's appointment today and she said things look great but not like they're happening right away. Kind of a bummer, but we can always hope for next week. We're three weeks out from the official due date and I just don't want to be late!
I'm also getting pretty impatient to find out WHAT kind of baby this is.
Having to come up with a boy & a girl name and buying a few specifically boy & girl outfits has been making me think I'm having one of both.
Obviously that's not happening, but it's starting to get confusing. It would be nice to have it all cleared up.

We're all set up so that we can network to the office from home, now Kris can see his schedule and we can access all the accounts so I can get work done when not in the office. That was one of the most important things for us to get done before baby, and luckily Kris's dad helped him set it up this week. We'd struggled with it several times before and never made it work. So THANKS Ken for helping Kris finally figure it out. It's working great and it's definitely a weight off my mind.

We've been having such busy days lately that I think poor Max is getting worn out. We get him up for school before seven and then rush to school. After school we usually have to rush to karate or guitar lessons. I don't know why the karate teacher did it, but he scheduled his white belt class 30 min after school ends. So we have to rush home and get him to change his clothes and get back to class and it's just tough. Unfortunately it sometimes involves a good amount of yelling. We're working on that. The yelling and the disobedience both.
After that he's got homework and guitar practicing and chores. He basically goes until bedtime.
So anyway I think he's tired of the intensity. I know I am! But so far everything we're doing is valuable, so we'll have to figure out how to ease up a bit without losing out.

And then to the point of this post.
I wanted to do something fun and halloweeny with poor "overworked" Maxwell. Fridays are his short days at school, he gets out right after lunch. Usually we'll go up and work at the office, but it's closed today since Kris is gone. So we went home and as soon as he finished his chores (which took AGES) we started on our little activity.


We really enjoyed ourselves making these adorable Nutter Butter ghosts. Max liked it a lot. (By the way, I didn't think these guys up, I got them from here. Such smart girlies on in the interweb.)

Look how cute they turned out!
Not as cute though, as my little boy, whom I had a very difficult time getting to stop making goofy toothless faces.


Ah, there we go. Isn't he adorable?

I felt like a good mom for actually doing something fun, seasonal and festive with him. And it really didn't take much time or too much standing up. (my back is killing me this week.)

So good for us. And I just put Max to bed at 7:30 and he had nary a complaint. I think he'll sleep well tonight. Now if only I can do the same.....

::cookies and stuff::

Halloween cookies are one of our things. We love to do them.  All sorts.  But lately we've just struggled to have time to do anything.  Max saw an old photo of he and I making these Nutter Butter ghosts before Sandy was even born a while back and he remembered how fun they were.

So when I realized we needed cookies for Max's school party and the church party I resolved that we would dip ghosts again.  Max was delighted.



Classic picture face!

These cookies are so stinking good, you could eat like 10 of them in one sitting without even realizing it.



So speaking of halloween parties, on Thursday Sandy and Max both had school parties, so they got to wear their costumes to school.  Lucy wore the downgraded version of her Tinkerbell costume.  She likes to suck on the skirt.



Sandy had a fun time, but he was most psyched up that he got to go to Max's school party.  The night before he said to me, "I won't be four for THIRTY YEARS, but I still get to go to Max's party??!"  He was happily incredulous.

Max's school is in a new location across the parking lot which has a large fully fenced outdoor area which is GREAT.  It about triples the functional space of the school.
Max was inside playing halloween bingo and Sandy was outside running and playing with the kids.  He was really shy when we first arrived but after about 10 minutes he was having the time of his life.

And Max was having a lot of fun too.  He's in a good spot here at this school.  It's been great for him.





When it was time to leave Sandy started to cry--real true sad and miserable tears because he wanted to stay and play.  It was pretty cute, but no I'm not enough of a softie that I let him stay.  But I told him he can go to school there next year and he was pretty excited about that.