Spooky days are here

The countdown to Halloween has begun! We've already decorated our house, borrowed Halloween books from the library, and watched Yo Gabba Gabba's Halloween episode ten times.This week we also paid a visit to the spookiest Halloween store in town. The scariest decorations were the giant limb ripper werewolves. But I am so brave, nothing scares me!

We weren't really supposed to take pictures in the store, but mom was able to catch me arresting Cole and putting him in the stocks.

Cousin concert

I'm ready for a record deal! What could be better than a rock band made of cousins?!

Grace and me made tickets to the concert.

I did my best to sing a death metal/rap version of a song from the Lorax. I think it went well.

Genna was doing a pretty good job too!

Rockin out with my brother!

Catching up

Jeez, its been a long time! I finally convinced mommy to update all my fans. It doesn't matter if we had lots of family visitors, or that she's had laryngitis all week, or that she has 8,000 papers to grade, and 20 good tv shows saved on the dvr. I've got fans that need to see me!

Over the past few weeks I've seen at least a dozen family members, including my favorites Ali and Dexter. I've been to Cleveland and back. I earned two stickers at school for having two good drop offs with no sadness and crying. I joined a rock band. I saw giant werewolf and zombies. And I played preschool Olympics at the park. Whew!

Here's me practicing my Blue Steel look at Grandma's house!

Grandfather time!

Grandfather came all the way up to Ohio so I could show him my tricks and skills. And get lots of hugs.

3D

Today we saw our first 3D movie. The glasses were fun and I loved how the words looked like they were floating right in front of me. Bruce the Shark and all his teeth were pretty scary close up. But the daddy fish still found Nemo.

In the street

Lately my favorite ideas are playing in my street. I can kick the soccer ball with mom, ride my neighbor's scooter, or play with his basketball hoop. Our street is great.

Official

Please sign here, and here, and here, and here, and here.... and here.

Robo-dog

I've got a real dog named Abby and a stuffed dog named Spots. Clearly I also need a robot dog. I'll let you know once I've named him.

Handwriting

I've mastered the letter L. Now I'm moving on to U. Handwriting is very hard.

Do it ourselves

Daddy is always working around the house and sometimes he lets us help. I don't know why that scares mommy so much.

Baseball magic

More baseball means more time to practice my wizard skills. Is the infield made of dirt or magic floo powder? I've said Diagon Alley about a hundred times already. Hasn't worked yet, but I'll keep trying.

Go Indians!

Today was my first night of fall baseball. You read that right, baseball! Not t-ball. I love being five. I am lucky enough to still be an Indian. We got to pick being a Red or an Indian. For some reason the Indians were not all that popular, but I was happy to be on that team. After lots of practice we played one inning and I had a great hit!

More preschool

I go to preschool three days a week, preschool programs at the park, and preschool story time at the library. I guess it just isn't enough preschool. Today I started my preschool Create and Play class at a different park! Its only and hour and mommy gets to do it all with me, so that's good. Today we talked about running, did relay races, ran a butterfly race, colored racing pictures, and I made my own medal.

Air show

This holiday weekend we went to Cleveland to visit grandma and grandpa and go to an air show. At the air show they had lots and lots of planes. We climbed in them, pretend to fly them, and even sat in an engine. We watched lots of noisy planes fly in the sky and do cool tricks. And of course they had lots of tasty food. We ate corn dogs, french fries, and smoothies. We also begged for cotton candy, pretzels, and souvenirs. How are mom and dad so good at saying no to us?

The best part of the show was the Blue Angels!

There was an airplane just like the one we are going to take to Disney World for Christmas. We practiced sitting in it, looking out the window, and using our tray tables. I don't think we'll get to sit in the engine.

Luke loved being in the planes more than anything. Even after a long hot afternoon, he did not want to leave. He cried and cried saying he wanted to touch more planes and stay there forever. Silly boy!