Pumpkin Carving - Au Chapeau

Every year the preschool has a pumpkin carving night just before Halloween.  The last 2 years Clarke has been able to go with both Carson and Jay while they were in Au Chapeau.  He had to work this year so mommy got to go carve pumpkins.  Nathan loved pulling the guts out!

I bought a carving set for $1.49 that I thought wouldn't be that useful.  It came with a little punch though that Nathan could smack while I held it in place and then with some guidance he was able to carve his pumpkin.  They only part I did without his help were the cat's eyes.

Dressed for his school party!

Nathan was very proud of his pumpkin!

Jay's School Party

Jay goes to kindergarten on Tuesdays and Thursdays so they had to have their party early.  His teacher had a conference on the 28th so decided that Oct 26th would be the best day for the party so she could be with the kids.  I went to school at lunch to paint up Jay's face and get him ready.  He was so very excited.  One of the other boys in the class had a Frankenstein costume as well but he didn't get painted up.  After all of our painting (including his hands going green as well), Jay wanted to go to the bathroom to see his face.  His teacher had a mirror in the class and let him look.  He just beamed!

You can just make out the scar on his face.  We used fake blood on it and everything!

Sitting down right before the party started with a big grin!

Jay reported that he had a terrific time and that he was excited for the rest of Halloween to come.

Field trips!

Jay has had 2 field trips so far this month.  One to the fire hall and just yesterday he went to Medicine Hat High School where the beauty culture class painted him up, literally.  I got home late from the hospital and Clarke was already gone to work so some of the make-up was off but here are some of the views:

Clarke is getting old, or so he says!

Clarke told me I didn't have to buy him anything for his birthday.  I was very tempted to listen.  I was in Calgary on Friday and Saturday so managed to pick up a Cheesequake Cheesecake for him from Cheesecake Cafe.  I made him ribs and had planned on having some friends over but they got held up in Calgary and I was on call at 6.  In the end we had cake in the afternoon and then Clarke and the boys had the ribs while I was at the hospital.  I am not a fan of cheesecake but this one was pretty good.

Lazy afternoons...

While Carson and Jay are at school on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, Nathan likes to hang out on my bed and watch movies.  His favorite is Curious George.  In fact, he often asks when daddy will get up so that he can watch Curious George.  He gets all comfy and settles in for about 20 minutes.  He has learned to pause the DVD player and loves that he can go back to it 3 minutes or 3 hours later.

Lounge monkey

"I've been framed, They got the wrong guy!"

While we were getting ready to have a garage sale the Thanksgiving weekend, I was cleaning out the boys stuff and hung up the costumes that were too small to sell.  Clarke is sad that the bat costume is going.  He made Nathan put it on for pictures.  Sadly though the forecast is for snow and there is no room for warm clothes underneath this one.