October Outings and Oddities

We enjoyed a bunch of fun things in October.

If you zoom in you can see the turkeys crossing the parking lot, we see groups of wild turkeys quite a bit, especially funny right before Thanksgiving.

Kate had to go with me to get my TB tests done at a nearby hospital but we found the cool kid area for the Sacramento Kings fans (The NBA team we have adopted until we get the Sonics back)

Since Jaydon and Lucy were heading back from WA by camping their way down with Gma and Gram, Kate and I needed to do some fun things together. I took her to Funderland (a kid amusement park) and we had a blast.

She loved the rides, we went on so many together I got tired but she could have kept going for hours more!

The fun Fall Festival that our kids school put on. It was a great outing and I neglected to get many pics.

Lucy won a round at the cake walk, she is totally my girl. She picked the biggest one left!

Kate and I played Hiss (an amazing game with preschool and lower elementary age kids), she had the big pile, I had the small pile and the leftover cards had two snake heads and tails - super rare!

The kids soccer buttons that they got. At some point I will try posting their team pics but no guarantees I will remember because I have to take a pic of the pic.

Took the girls to a local trunk or treat event at our nearby auto-mall, Jaydon chose to stay home and watch football (shocker).

I was able to chaperone Kate's first school bus field trip. She had a wonderful time at the pumpkin patch.

She loved the petting zoo time.

Class photo

Wrapping up another day at gymnastics!

Kate's Party

We got to have a fun day celebrating Kate. She got ready for her party with sister bath time while Caly and Hobbes looked on. Then we headed to Rockin' Jump (a tramponline park for some play time with 8 kiddos total, 4 of Kate's friends and 2 of Lucy's), after enjoying our jump time we then brought everyone back to our house for cake, ice cream and presents. It was great and Kate had a wonderful time!

The girls enjoy their baths and the 'kittens' are very intrigued.

Trying out the fun things at the jumping place

In the back left Lucy is with her two friends, Then the front 5 kiddos (3 on left and 2 on right) are from Kate's party, the other kiddos are just a few who were in the pit at the time.

Dessert time

Make a wish!

Presents!

Kate's Birthday

We had a wonderful, and busy day celebrating Kate. It was soccer game day (and we had an early game) so we started early with a new Kate tradition of getting pumpkin pie for breakfast (partly because I need an excuse to buy my first Costco pumpkin pie of the season). Then we headed out to soccer games for L and J and found our way back home for a somewhat lazy afternoon before going out to dinner (Spaghetti Factory - Kate's choice). The only downside was when we got to the restaurant we had to make a detour to urgent care to get Jaydon's finger looked at from a soccer injury earlier that day. He wound up with a small fracture in his right index finger.

Now about Kate! She is so full of personality. She has these facial expressions that are hilarious, her voice and inflection are super cute and she is good at making people laugh. We often get questions on if it is hard to discipline her because she comes off as angelic but also somewhat devious in her ability to give you a look that may let her get out of anything. She is loving being in T-K this year and going to school every afternoon (11-2:35) at the same school as big brother and sister. She loves to volunteer answers and can definitely be a bit of a bossy pants. She is still doing gymnastics and looks forward to doing dance this spring and starting some other sports in the fall (though managing all three of their schedules will be a challenge). Kate loves coloring and doing art projects, she also enjoys playing with horses and dolls. She gives some of the best healing kisses for boo-boos and is still a snuggler. She brings a lot of energy and joy into our lives.

 Happy with her dinner at the spaghetti factory!

And...Jaydon's swollen finger. Probably should be its own post but oh well.