Carving Pumpkins

Sunday night we had our neighbors, The Brantleys, over to eat chili and carve pumpkins.  It was perfect weather and we had a great time hanging out together.  John and Caleb enjoyed getting to help cut the tops off the pumpkins and scrape out the insides before they decided to go back to playing and running around.

Daniel busy working on drawing out his "N" for his Nebraska pumpkin.  Who knew you needed a ruler and power tools for pumpkin carving.

 

The pumpkin I created.

The pumpkin David carved based off of a drawing that Caleb created.  Caleb's version was a little bit scary, I wish I would have thought and took a picture of his drawing.  You can't tell in this picture but the pumpkin also has some blood drawn on it with a red sharpie per Caleb's request, lol.

Fall Festival

We went to Caleb's first school Fall Festival on Friday!  He had a great time getting to pick and choose what games and activities he wanted to spend his tickets on.

 

We arrived at 4:00pm when it kicked off and decided to get in line for the face painting right as it opened so that we didn't have to wait in line for a long time later on.  While Joshua and I saved our spot in line Caleb and David made a little toolbox at the Home Depot booth which was right next to the face painting booth.  The timing couldn't have worked out any better, as soon as he finished his building project he was next in line to get his face painted.  David and I joked about how he will sit so still to get his face painted but any other time you can't get him to sit this still.  He loved how it turned out and didn't want to wash it off that night when it was time for bed.

 

 

He had a lot of fun playing on the inflatables, going through some mazes, playing games, winning a cupcake at the cupcake walk, eating ice cream and socializing with his friends.  While Caleb played David and I reminisced about the different activities we had at our school carnivals.

 

 (David and I both remember "going fishing" at our school carnivals growing up).

 

 Little brother loves him some food and was not happy with the ice cream was all gone.

 

 (I love this sweet picture of Caleb and John together in the skeleton photo prop)

 

I would say that we can mark this night down as a huge success.  We all had a great time, the weather was perfect and it was just starting to get pretty crowded as we were leaving.  I love this time of year and am loving participating in things with Caleb during his first year of school!



It's Tuesday!

Caleb:
I'm happy to report that Caleb got up out of bed as soon as his alarm went off this morning, turned it off, got dressed and then came downstairs without any assistance or coaxing.  He was excited and ready to head back to school this morning.  Today he decided he wanted me to drop him off and not walk in with him.  I obliged but I'll admit I didn't like it and it took me a few minutes to quit wondering this morning whether or not he found his classroom ok.  This afternoon Joshua and I went to a couple of stores and it was really weird passing by the school knowing Caleb was in there.  I would love to be a fly on the wall and watch him just for a day :-).

He had his first homework assignment tonight.  I let him watch TV for a few minutes when he got home from school and then let him know he needed to do his homework.  He didn't give me any fits and he said that he needed a desk like school to do his homework (which is funny because they sit at tables not in desks) and that he wanted to sit in the desk we have upstairs.  Thankfully tonight's homework was super easy and took him just a few seconds to complete.  He just had to color the border around a worksheet that I'm assuming he will fill out and complete in class tomorrow (at least that was this momma's understanding of the directions).

Joshua:
Joshua has recently decided to venture out and crawl up the stairs.  He has only done it a couple of times but not enough that we have had to worry about it and put up the gate.  Well, this all changed this afternoon.  After Caleb got home from school Joshua decided that he likes this stair climbing business and kept trying to climb up them.  Looks like the baby gate will be going up at the Winberry house.

 

We also discovered that this little guy really likes black beans.  He just kept shoveling them in.

Big brother didn't want to miss out on being involved in the action so he decided to slap a little jello on his face so we would take his picture.

 

 



First Day of Kindergarten!

I still can't believe that Caleb started Kindergarten today and that we have begun this new season in our life.  It just didn't seem real last night as he tore off the last link of his count down chain, we prayed over him and we read the book that they gave him at Kindergarten registration that we had reached this time in his life.  He was so excited last night and as we were putting him to bed he told us that he wished it was morning already.

Last night we put a clock/radio in his room and Daddy set the alarm for 6:20am.  Caleb thought it was neat that he had is own alarm clock.  He did great getting up this morning but I'm not so sure how fun he is going to think it is when it goes off every morning for the rest of the school year.

It's not the healthiest of breakfast options but he has been asking for Fruity Pebbles cereal for a while so as a treat he got to get some when we bought food for his lunches and snacks for school and have them this morning for breakfast.

He was a sport and obliged me with all of the first day of school pictures and didn't bat an eye when we left after walking him into his classroom.   It was a little sad this morning because he got upset when he found out we were taking him to school, bless his heart he thought he was riding the school bus. 

 
I did great while I was at the school but will admit I did cry briefly after I got home.  It was a little weird not having him at home with Joshua and I today and I kept wishing I could see what he was doing all day.  His teacher was super sweet and sent out an email part way through the day to the parents to let us know that they were all doing great.

David came home early from work and we picked him up together and went to Dairy Queen for ice cream to celebrate a great first day of school. 

It sounds like he had a great first day.  When his teacher brought him to the car she said he had a little something in his backpack that he earned today.  He was excited to show us the treat he got to pick out from the treasure chest.  We are so glad that he had a great day and are super excited that this school year is off to a great start.