October Wrap Up

A few October wrap up items:

We had the Haderlies (and Rugby) here and the kids had fun and did a movie night and then Shantel took them to the dinosaur museum on Saturday and then got ice cream. I love the picture of Lydia snuggling up next to Rugby while they watch the show. 

Right now my favorite game to play is called Carcassonne. It is a building game and I'm lucky because Austin (and Lydia) both like it too. Austin really loves it and we were able to play quite a few times this month. I had to help him some of the times to know the right things to do, but the more we have played the more that I have to really do my best to try and beat him. 

I went into Caleb's room after we had put him to bed one night and found this:

Caleb has been learning to write his name and from above, you can see he is doing a great job. He had a marker in his bed and had been writing his name over and over again all over his sheets. I could not believe my eyes when I saw it. Fortunately I handled it well and just reminded Caleb to write on paper, not other things. After he fell asleep I grabbed a couple pictures. 

The only sad part is that Shantel had been letting him use her soft blanket and he had started to write Mom on that (and on his sheets too). Fortunately I caught him before he wrote it too many times. I worried it would not come out, but fortunately I think it mostly came out.