Monster

I just shaved big bald patches in my pretty- not meant to be shaved- dog. Robby broke out the spray foam insulation this morning to go around the new door, he took it outside and I thought nothing of it. But, apparently before he went out he did a bottom corner on the inside. So while I obliviously looked on, Rylan drove his truck through it and then down the head and back of poor Lola. Lola noticed something wasn't right and proceeded to jump up and run around all the furniture trying to rub it off her back. This stuff is impossible to remove when wet. Same for surfaces that can not be scraped with a razor blade when it dries. I got most of it off the sofa and chairs, Rylan's hands are still sticky but most of it's gone. Getting him to sit still so I can scrape it off is not happening. The blanket is ruined, the truck is in the trash and the dog was hopeless. It stuck her fur together so every time she moved it pulled at her so I had no choice. I broke out the clippers and shaved off chunks. It's freezing out so I didn't want to take off anymore than necessary.

Halloween

Halloween was a lot of fun. I was sick but I made it through, lol. The weather was great, the rain stopped just in time and it was warm. They were fine with just their costumes over their clothes and I didn't have to try to fit them over coats, lol. I was a bit nervous about Rylan, he had been refusing to even try on his costume. However when it came time to get dressed for trick or treating he said "okay" and put it right on. He figured it out right away. He followed Saige to the first house, it was amazingly decorated and everyone was in costume... he liked that. I got him to open his bag and the woman dropped some candy in and his eyes just lit up and he started pulling me to the next house. He loved it! After an hour Saige was tired and wanted to go home, so we headed back and hit some more houses on the way with Rylan leading the way. He never did say trick or treat but he did say "tank you" to everyone. We saw some really neat costumes, all in all, a great night.

misc

Halloween post is coming next. I finally got around to getting the pictures off the camera, what an adventure that was. For some reason they would not load on my laptop, where all my pictures are. They haven't been deleting either, I always click to delete after uploading but it seems that has not actually worked, there were over 600, but they were not visible on the camera? Oh well, anyway I figured it out and here's some misc pictures.

This is my favorite page from Saige's October journal from school. She is "writing" all the time, she comes home from school and writes about her day. She is doing really good at recognizing the sounds from words she doesn't know. It says One firetruck is red, lol. It is so much fun to see her so excited by reading and writing.

Saturday was our last soccer game of the season, the kids played great and we had nice warm weather and sunshine for it. I finally remembered to have Robby bring the camera and here she is about to score. I am amazed at how much they all improved in the last few months. Their biggest problem is crowding each other and taking the ball. They were good, most games we ended up switching kids from the other team or telling them they had to pass it 5 times before making a goal so the other teams had a chance. I was very lucky to have such a great well behaved and eager team. A great assistant coach sure didn't hurt either.


I just thought those two were cute. Last is Saige's Halloween Kitty she made at Build A Bear last month.