fat suburbanite dad: October 2013

The girl is a cat and the boy an alien this year. They have a carnival at school with all the proceeds going to charity. This way, they are nice and sugared up from all the stuff at the carnival, before trick or treating!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Booed!

This sign showed up on the front porch the other day, along with a bag of stickers, crafts and other fun things for the kids. They are having such a fun time trying to figure out which neighbor sent it. What they like even more than getting the gifts was shopping with me and planning what neighbors would get booed from them. They ended up booing the three kids next store and a brother and sister two doors down. They were so excited, they waited until it was dark and then dropped the goodies, rang the doorbell and ran. The next day when they were all playing outside, their friends were trying to figure out who booed them. It has been fun to watch. We are lucky to have such great neighbors!

Friday, October 25, 2013

An Athletic Performance

The girl was named student athlete of the week at school. The school picks one girl and one boy athlete a week from the hundreds of kids that play sports for the school. The criteria isn't solely on athletic ability, though that is one of the factors. The other factors are teamwork and sportsmanship. We are so proud of her! Since the picture of her with her certificate has a lot of personal information on it, we substituted a pic of her and her best friend after the game. Her friend G, has also been student athlete of the week, which she very justly deserved.

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In other volleyball news, the girl was on fire today helping her team win their second to last game of the season. She was able to maintain her serve 11 times in a row, with more than half of them aces. She is really enjoying volleyball. It is a very busy, but short season.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Just Thought This Turned Out Interesting

It's amazing how far camera phones have developed over the last few years.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Weekend Update

We went to a church carnival Friday night. The kids had fun and luckily didn't win a fish in the ping pong toss. We made Aunt J come with us and we all ate a bunch of unhealthy carnival food.

We are in the midst of volleyball season and the girl is loving it. Today was a big tournament and we were in a gym for hours. The girl's team ended up winning the most games and took first place.

This afternoon I got to spend time with my Godson for his birthday. We went to Chuck E Cheese and Toys R Us. Chuck E Cheese happened to have a train game. Since A is really into trains, it was perfect! We had so much fun!

Tomorrow the boy starts football season, he is so excited!

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Have a Spooktacular Halloween