So Much To Scrap: October 2010

What a busy, crowded weekend!! Friday the elementary school PTA hosted Family Fun Night and it was a crazy-crowded night. There was a carnival, dance party (dancing with glow sticks--Aidan was in heaven), raffles, food, the works. The kids were like the mayors of the school, stopping to say "HI" to their peeps every third step. AND, I won one of the raffles so I was feeling cool.

Jake was getting ready to get his card crossed out. After each activity, you got a box crossed out. When you got 6 boxes you got a free bag of popcorn. You'd have thought they were giving away gold with the way the kids were fighting to get the 6 boxes filled.

Aidan is using his Star Wars Force powers to move the ball up the bars.

Saturday night after a great soccer game earlier in the day (Jake was goalie)....we headed to the Boo at the Zoo. Also a crazy-crowded event. It was at the Syracuse zoo with lots of different animal shows for kids, a juggler, bubble blower, and much more. But the best part was that the kids got to wear their costumes and it was relatively warm and the rain held off until just as we were leaving and even then it was just a mist. However, we got there late and had to park soooo far away. But the kids were awesome, I don't even think they complained. (I did.) Poor Corinna did come home with 102 fever though!

A little pre-event face painting.

Aidan was loving life being all painted. Although he INSTANTLY wanted it off when he was done.

Little Miss Kitty ready to go.

meow.

Mr. Mario. There were a least a dozen other Marios at the Zoo Boo.

Jake went as Spider-Monkey, a character from Ben-10.

Our neice Natia (Britney Spears in Spike's old costume--hmmmm) came over and got ready with us.

Look at Aidan laughing SOOO hard. There was a juggler on stage.

Sunday we carved pumpkins. Jake was so into this year. Aidan was too grossed out by the smell and goo of the pumpkin guts to do much, but Jake did a lot. In years past, Spike did the 'hard' work of cutting off the top of the pumpkins and hollowing out the guts and basically carving the whole thing for each of the kids. But I did it this year. COrinna was attached to Spike so I was in charge of pumpkins! Like I said, Jake did most of his, but I carved out Corinna's and Aidan's. I did try to roast some pumpkin seeds and they were disgusting. Let's just say, I'm glad you only have to carve pumpkins once a year.

Jake "I'm so dramatic", LOVED getting all the guts out of the pumpkin.

Shelby thought we should carve this one....

Little known fact: Pumpkin carving goes much smoother when you wear cat ears.

This is about as close as Aidan was willing to get to 'his' pumpkin.

The finished pumpkin family.

Aidan's fifth birthday party was out of this world! Well, more like into the Mario Galaxy. We celebrated his half-decade of life on a beautiful fall day indulging in his latest obsession--Mario Brothers. We kicked it old school with party games like duck duck goose, hot potato, and limbo. The kids LOVED it!! Aidan couldn't stop smiling all day all his best pals from school and his cousins helped him celebrate.

Aidan (dressed as Mario) blows out his candles. It was cute --he did make a wish before blowing out the candles. He whispered "I wish I had every videogame. (sorry world peace, it will have to wait for birthday #6 maybe) to himself then blew out the candles