Here's a brief recap of what late-October looked like around here:
Kelsey has always loved football, and since she discovered there was such a thing as Powderpuff football, she's been gunning to play quarterback. On October 16th she got her chance. Quarterbacking was OK, but what she fell in love with (almost by accident) was playing... LINEBACKER! Yes, our little princess played linebacker. In the first series of the game, she got three sacks. Three. I kept hearing the PA announcer call her name. It was great. She had a blast. We had a blast. You know Jimmy was working the chains. He had to find some excuse to be on the sidelines.
We are grateful for Powderpuff. It was a bright spot in Kelsey's fall sports season. Volleyball was horrible. Many, many issues arose surrounding the coach and team dynamics. I have no complaints about what happened on the court or in the games, but some of the no-parents-allowed-behind-closed-doors-practices allegations left us deeply concerned and prayerfully considering how we should handle things (beyond letting the coach and athletic director know our concerns. We have done that.)
Other than that, Kelsey has learned what life is like when you opt to do everything all at once. :) Lots of late nights and sleepy mornings.
Zane found his dream costume: the gorilla. As you can see, he made it part of his normal wardrobe around the house. Silly boy. He wore it to school on Animal Planet Day during Spirit Week. It was hot. The body of the costume has been in the back of the Suburban for a couple of weeks now. I don't know where the head is, and that means I don't know when or where it might show up. That scares me a little.
Zane had a great football season and played center on offense and linebacker on defense for the JV team. They finished 8-2, with both losses coming against their arch rivals down the street. Zane dressed for all the home varsity games and even got on the field for a kick-off (or kick-off return or punt or punt return or something else special teams... I'm not sure which. I'm pretty ADD at football games.)
He hit a couple of bumps early in the transition from middle school to high school, but he's rallied since and done MUCH better. :) I love it when my kids' teachers stop me in the hall to tell me how well my babies are doing in school.
Our fall play at school is You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and they have been manic in promoting the play to elementary students. Zack has been in a near frenzied state about the production and hounded me to no end for tickets. Bless his heart. So when we heard that It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was on TV, we HAD to watch it. Mind you, we have it on DVD and it's readily available on the interwebs, but hey... nothing like the real live broadcast to create a sense of excitement and urgency.I wouldn't trade those little boy giggles and belly laughs for anything. He thought it was absolutely hysterical. And as a result, we HAD to get a pumpkin from the most sincere pumpkin patch and carve it according to The Pumpkin Patch Parable. If we aren't both culturally-relevant and super spiritual, then I give up (that's a joke, peeps. Don't get up on the ledge over it.) Conveniently enough, the most sincere pumpkin patch was just around the corner and had a gargantuan inflatable jack-o-lantern anchored mid-patch. We arrived there at 2:30 p.m. on October 31st. Discount! Free little pumpkins! Boo-ya.
The Zackster loves third grade. He has a rockin' teacher who is funny and fun. And he genuinely likes the rest of the kids in his class. He's making some bffs and we're having sleepovers and doing things outside of school, which is probably late in happening, but when you're the youngest and have been raised in a car shuttling the older sibs to their activities for nine years, carving time for little guy activities isn't easy.
Speaking of carving...
Happy Fall-Festival-Harvest-Season-Pumpkin-Patch-Parable-Carving-Reformation-Day-All-Saints-Eve Celebration!
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