October Activities

Collage GAME DAY!

Tracy asked Cole to join her for Collage Game Day in the VERY early A.M.

They were able to stand at the side of the stages, right on the front fences and had an awesome view of all the morning activities.

Cole and Tracy are still quite chatty about that morning and I believe she has made a permanent Game Day Junky out of Cole.

Flag Football

Cole's team came a long way this season and all the boys had fun.

(A statement like that usually means they didn't have many wins right?

That would be the correct understanding here as well.)

For the last game Cole made his first catch and advanced the ball a couple yards.  He returned a punt about 25 yards and almost scored a touch down on the play. AWESOME ending to his first season.

(Now Mom has to contemplate tackle football next year as Cole pushes hard with good arguments and the standard begging, dang it...I mean yeah!?)

Circus Arts

Jo is really having a blast with this class and practically runs out the house to get there.  She graduated from the beginning class to the intermediate level and has more time on the Silks each class, which is her favorite part.

Jo learning the Bat Hang which she has now done on her own successfully. Her homework  from this class is 30 sit ups, 30 push ups each day. (Jo has started to do them without a parent reminder, which means this is very important to her.)

We sure love the joy that comes out of her when she is on the Silks!

Sushi - Home Style

Jo has been asking to eat sushi for days, well wait, let me start over here.  Jo asks for sushi all the time and would never turn it down if offered.  However her asking ramped up a bit so we had home-rolled sushi one night.

Of course Karly (daughter from another Mother) was with us and though she does not like sushi she managed to create rolls for herself that she did like.  Hmmm, we might have had a child's mind grow a little bit more.

PUMPKINS

Back out to the pumpkin patch this time to pick our favorite gourd. (and yes, that daughter from the other Mother is with us)

GREAT day and it quickly became too warm for jackets.

We were also joined by the Young Belmont's.

They all look happy...well, two out of three.  One just seems embarrassed that she must pose with the other two.

Walnut Farming

Our tree is very happy this year and quite giving.  So we are trying to be walnut farmers and not just toss them in the yard debris.

Jo and I built three stack-able drying screens.

This bunch of nuts is only one day of collecting, we have MANY more at this point.  Glad we only have one tree.

First Perm

Jo asked to have a perm and after much education about what a perm will mean she still said yes.

WOW!  She is LOVING her hair!

And we LOVE a smiling Jo any day!

Our Strawberry Tree

I didn't think it got warm enough, long enough this summer for our tree to produce any of it's prickly fruit.  There are tons of very small flowers and just as many happy bees but I wanted to show that it did pop a few berries out.

This strawberry has since been picked and given too a friend for her first taste of this fruit.  Yeah!  I love this tree.