Fall Fun and a Special Treat!

I love fall....from the changing of the leaves to the pumpkin patch field trips, to the cool crispness of the day, it is one of my favorite times!  We have had a busy season with Alex and Ben both playing travel soccer and Jack starting kindergarten and playing rec soccer.  They have all been troopers and I am so proud of them!  We recently had our Cub Scout campout at Boxwell.  Since Alex is a Webelo 2, he was in charge of setting up the room for dinner (for 145!), serving the dinner, building the bonfire, and helping "retire" an old American flag.  Before Scouts, I did not realize that you can only retire a flag one of two ways....1) burial (land or sea) or 2) burn it, after cutting each red and white stripe and burning it one by one.  We do the latter at Scouts and it is always a very solemn ceremony!

Jack and Ben and friends

Jack's favorite new face

Ben waiting patiently for dinner

Alex serving dinner

Flag ceremony

Alex also was PLAYER OF THE WEEK this week for his soccer team.  He was SO proud! Tonight he has to turn the shirt back over to his coach, so we took a picture of him.  (He also made math club this week and I am pleased to note that he was equally excited about that!).

Alex in his player of the week shirt

Jack on the run!

Our SPECIAL TREAT arrived yesterday!  One of my former room parent partners left two HUGE bags of toddler GIRL clothes on our porch for FLORIE when she gets here......the boys were so excited!  They dug into it right away with lots of oooohs and aaaaahs.....Jack held up one dress and said he knew Florie would be lovely in it!  Jack also got to go to the treat box this week at kindergarten, and he chose a Hello Kitty mirror to give to Florie.  It is waiting on her in her soon to be room.

We are not matched yet.....and are not sure when "IT" will happen.  Right now it is just really nice to know that our papers are in China, and the rest is in HIS control!

Thank you Tricia for your sweet gift!  We love it!

Love,
Eve