10/29 - Picnic & Sue's Halloween Party

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We've been getting our bearings since grandma and grandpa Hoyt left. I picked Eli up early from daycare on Tuesday and we went down the park to have a picnic. Aiden had his first occupational therapy evaluation on Tuesday morning. He did well and I'm curious and excited to go back on Tuesday to find out the summary of his evaluation. We've been doing his homework which is rubbing him over his arms/legs with a soft brush and doing some deep pressure exercises on some of his joints. It's supposed to help re-program his brain for touch. He actually really likes it.

We had fun at our picnic. The boys ran around a bit and then we had dinner (yogurt, apples, crackers, and hummus). They are such silly little boys and are so cute. Eli soaked himself with water at daycare so he had to borrow a shirt (which is why it say OPK on it). I can already tell I need to send about 2 changes of clothes a day for that child.

They played in the swings for a bit. All the pictures of Aiden came out blurry. There were 1 or 2 that came out okay but I would have had to type too much to convince you he was actually having fun. As you can see in this picture of Eli, he was having a blast on the swings.

We had some stale crackers so we fed those to the ducks. We then decided to take a family picture (minus Brad who is in Nevada) at the park. It actually turned out pretty good. We then walked back to the house and did our night time routine.

Last night we went to Sue's for her annual Halloween Party. Last year it rained right as the movie was about to begin so I just left because Eli was getting pretty fussy. This year I was determined to stay as long as the kids would allow. Here are the costumes. I was able to do much of it by myself although my neighbor did sew a seam at the bottom so we could loop some cord through it. I should have gotten a picture of my costume. I went as Awesome Amy! The boys were not too excited about putting their costumes on but I told them they had to for a bit. They have brown pants but it was too hot for that.

They were trying to play soccer while dressed in their pumpkins costume. It was funny to watch seeing how they had balloons stuff under their costumes to help add some volume.

In the picture below, Aiden is telling me he's had enough of his costume and he wants it off. He didn't even keep it on long enough to march in the parade with it on.

I took it off but he still wanted to march in the parade. He ran around the whole circle almost (which is pretty far for him to run). I didn't know he had that much endurance. He was pretty worn out at the end.

The picture below cracks me up. Stephanie and her family came and the monkey is Blaise. He was too cute. Eli and Blaise were playing with the ball and it was too cute to watch a monkey and pumpkin run around chasing a ball.

Here is Super Sara getting ready to take Eli's costume off.

With costumes off, the boys played in the backyard again. Eli was draw to the sand mound while Aiden was content to just kind of walk around and look at various things.

Poor Aiden. After all that running, he was exhausted by the end of the night.

We ate pizza, grapes, and pretzels and waited for it to get dark. Once it was dark enough, the movie (Charlie Brown and the Pumpkin Patch) started. The boys that it was so neat to stand in front of the screen before the movie started.

We didn't get home until about 8:45/9:00pm. The boys went straight to bed. And what time did they wake up? Guess. Normal wake-up time is 7:00am. They were up by 7:10am! Only 10 extra minutes. I'm thinking they will take longer naps than normal today. They had lots of fun but weren't quite ready yet to go in the not-so-scary hunted house yet. Sue really outdoes herself with the production she puts on. There were probably about 30 kids there (plus all the parents) so it was quite busy. We did errands this morning including getting our oil changed. I'm not sure what this afternoon will hold for us. Brad is in Reno for the weekend and is going motorcycle riding all day today. That should be fun for him.