Potty Bootcamp

Halloween 2010

Wednesday we celebrated Halloween at our librarytime. Obviously, Amelia and Edwin were the cutest kids there!!! Well, except for Lyla and Oliver - Cassie took a picture of them (their first of many together) and I hope to add it to this post soon...haha




Wednesday night we hosted a Halloween Party for our neighborhood friends. We tried our best to get all of the kids to sit on (around) the couch for a picture - I think there were 17 or 18 kids at our house...well...here was our best shot:



And tonight we went trick-or-treating...so much fun! Edwin LOVED going from house to house...and kept asking if he could go in the houses. LOL. He got a lot of goodies, but the best came from a man down the street wearing a Steelers shirt. I told Edwin to tell him who his favorite team was and without pausing Edwin shouted the Steelers...with that, the man gave him some extra candy! Edwin was pretty excited about that. I also noticed that the man was wearing Steelers tennis shoes...AWESOME!!! Can you say Christmas present for Dave...hahaha




Edwin enjoying his first piece of Halloween candy - a gummy lollypop...what a mess!

Edwin Gets Some Halloween Cash

Alright! Money!

OK, add it up. $4, yes!

Hmmm…what should I do with it?

Maybe I should share with my sister…

Maybe not.

OK, no need to decide right away. Might as well just dance & enjoy myself for now!

Newport Happenings Series #1

Actual occurrence in Newport, Kentucky, as witnessed by me while cooling down from a run with the dog earlier this morning:

Mom gets out of minivan, lights cigarette. Starts to help her approximately 8-year old son out of the van, for some reason via the driver’s side front door. Drops her cigarette on the ground—I assume due to the immense amount of smoke blowing into her son’s face. Once out of van, son emphatically stomps on the lit cigarette, putting it out. Mom shrieks, “hey, I wasn’t done with that!” Full of remorse son replies, “sorry, Mom, I didn’t know.”