Happy Halloween and Happy Birthday to Donald

Happy Halloween and Happy Birthday to Donald. Last night was the first annual Fall Festival at Nathan's school. Nathan played a few games but he really just liked hanging out in Mrs. Harris and Ms. Faye's classroom with them. Rachel missed her carnival at school so she went with us. She got a lot of candy and did have fun playing the basketball games. She loves playing basketball although she did say the haunted house was lame. It was a little to small for her but she still had fun. Well this morning Nathan said he was going to go trick or treat again. I told him yes he was going to trick or treat again. Well we got in the car to go to school and we are on our way and he said it again that he was going to go trick or treat and I said yes after school. Well that is not want he wanted to hear he wanted to go now. So he started crying. I pretty much had to drag him into school. So he was crying when I left but Amber, his speech therapist was taking him and she told him that they would go play on the computer. So he was not having the best morning. Of course he is going to think that when we do go trick or treating we are going to the parking lot so I am not sure how well he will like going to houses. Oh well we will see what happens. I hope everyone has a great day and don't forget to turn your clocks back tomorrow night.

Trunk or Treat

We did trunk or treat last night in the church parking lot. I think Nathan had a good time. He did not care about the candy but like walking around looking at the lights. I think he got about 4 pieces of candy. There were some people that had little jack-o-lantern lights they put around their trunk and Nathan loved looking at those. Even though he did not really trick or treat I think he had a good time. We will probably go trick or treating again tomorrow night. He was dressed up as Superman again this year. I think he looks adorable in his costume but of course I think he looks adorable in anything.

The Pumpkin Patch

Well we went to the pumpkin patch today and it was a nice drive the weather was absolutely gorgeous. Nathan really liked looking at the pumpkins or the jack-o-lanterns is what he kept calling them. I tried to get a picture of him looking at the camera I was not successful in doing that. But I did post a few from our day. We were doing fine he played on a few slides, Donald and I shared a funnel cake YUM! Then Nathan saw the inflatable bouncy house and said he wanted to go in, well that was fine but there was a line of kids to get in. Well he did not want to wait in line and wanted to go in now and not wait. Nathan is not good with patience. Well when we tried to redirect him back to the pumpkins, slide whatever that was not working he wanted to go in. So we told him not now there was a line he did not like our answer so he started hitting. I really did not think that I should pull out the wooden spoon in front of all the people so we decided to just go. Well Nathan did not really want to go either so he just sat down on the ground. So Donald had to carry him to the car with him kicking and crying. So we had a good time at first then it turned sour. Oh the joys of parenthood.

Happy Friday

Happy Friday to everyone. Sorry it is later in the day but it is still Friday. I hope everyone had and are still having a great Friday and have a great weekend. The weather is gorgeous here it is definitely feeling like fall. I love Fall so I am loving this weather. Today we had a meeting at Nathan's school about his progress. He is still behind on what he should be at his age but he has improved a bunch since he started school at North Hills. It did make me feel better after talking to his therapists on the progress he is making. Because I am already stressing about him going to Kindergarten next Fall. But he still has this school year and summer so I am hoping he makes a lot more improvements before then. So I am going to stop stressing about that since I have a few months before he starts Kindergarten. Donald and I have noticed a lot of things he will do now that he would not do a few months ago and we have noticed a lot of improvements. He has great therapists and is going to a great school. His teacher from last year is Mrs. Harris and she loves Nathan and is always giving him kisses and hugs. She wears bright lipstick and always leaves a mark on him when he gets a kiss. So if he has a kiss on him I always tell him, "I see you have a Mrs. Harris kiss on you." He had one on him the other day when I picked him up so I thought I would take a few pictures. So here are a few pictures of Nathan with a Mrs. Harris kiss. We might try to go to a pumpkin patch tomorrow and get a few pumpkins so Donald can carve them. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and week. Enjoy the wonderful Fall weather.

Nathan's Marvel Super Heroes room

We have had Nathan's room painted for a week or so but we just now put up all the pictures and the Marvel Super Heroes appliques. I took a few pictures so everyone can get an idea how his room looks. He seems to really like it. He really likes Spider man so he really likes all the pictures. There is a picture of Bobby that Nathan has always liked. So we keep it in his room and he likes to take it off the wall. He will say, "Take Papaw off the wall." There is also a picture of me when I was about 3 or 4 and he really likes that picture too. So I hope everyone enjoys the pictures of Nathan's cool room. If you notice his empty book case we had to put all his books in the closet so he can not get them. He kept eating all his books when he was watching TV so we had to throw a lot away and we decided to move the others. He can only look at his book with supervision. In these pictures he is chewing on his Little People cow from his barn. I figured that is the best thing for him to chew on because I guess it is a sensory thing or bad habit but he usually chews on stuff when he is watching TV.

Road Trip to Texas

We got back from our trip to Texas last night. We had a good time and got to see Uncle Robert and Aunt Becca and Aiden and Ethan and also Uncle Shawn and Aunt Khristy and Caitlin, J.D. and Quinn. We also got to see Mema and Aunt Janice, Uncle Norman and Aunt Dorothy and some of Daddy's cousins.
We stayed in the Holiday Inn Express and Nathan did so good about sleeping. We took his little mattress from his bed and he slept very well. Saturday we all got together at Golden Corral and we were all in a room by ourselves which was very nice. I took some pictures of different people that were there. After we ate we all went back to the hotel and the kids put on their bathing suits. There was an indoor pool. Everyone went swimming except for Me, Aunt Becca and Aunt Khristy. Aunt Khristy stayed in our room because Quinn was taking a nap. They all had a lot of fun.
Sunday we went to church with Mema and Nathan went to Children's Worship and did not fuss at all about it. We went to lunch after church and started home after lunch. It was a fast short visit but we all had a good time and it was good to see and visit with everyone. Enjoy all the pictures I posted from our trip.
One more thing I need to mention is that we have a DVD player in the van and there are headphones so the person can watch a movie and the people in the front don't have to listen to it. Well this is the first trip that Nathan wore the headphones to watch his movie and we got to listen to our CD.

Happy Monday

Happy Monday to everyone. I hope everyone had a great weekend. The weather is starting to feel more like Fall. It is cool in the mornings and gets warmer in the afternoons and cool at night.

On October 1 Donald pinned on Lieutenant Colonel. There was no ceremony he just went to work that morning with Lt. Col leaves on his shoulder instead on Major. So it is official now he is a Lt. Col.

Today is Rachel's 8th birthday. We are going over to Meemaw and Granddad's tonight to have cake and open presents. She is having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's on Sat. and inviting her friends. But tonight is just for family and she will open her presents from us. We have also lived in this house for 8 years, we moved in the day Rachel was born.

Donald is taking leave on Wed. and Thurs. and we are planning on painting Nathan's room on Wed. We bought some Marvel Superheroes to stick on the wall and he has a Spider man poster, Fantastic 4 poster and a Marvel Superheroes poster. He really likes Spider man and always wants to wear his Spider man T-shirts so he really likes his Spider man poster.

We are going to go to Texas on Friday and come home on Sunday. Uncle Robert and Aunt Becca and Aiden and Ethan will be there so we will be able to see them. And hopefully we will get to see Uncle Shawn and Aunt Khristy and Caitlin, J.D. and Quinn sometime over the weekend. I am sure I will take pictures and will probably post them next week so keep checking.

I hope everyone has a great week and weekend.
















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