Halloween

For Halloween we had our friends come over for dinner before and then went out in the neighborhood. It was perfect weather - I think it might've gotten up to 80 degrees that day.

I did pin up Joels costume so he wouldn't trip. Couldn't get another broken bone the way our week was going.

Norah tripped and caught herself with her fractured arm walking around to get candy.  We went the day after Halloween to see the ortho surgeon and they put her in a metal splint instead of a cast.  Colin wishes he had that type instead of a cast. I wish they had cast Norah. I had to stop her Saturday from playing volleyball with the neighbors.

Colin wasn't really feeling it.  Poor guy. He is still in a lot of pain almost two weeks later.  We went to get more xrays and he is healing right.  Just still has a lot of swelling in his fingers.  We also found out he had fractured his other wrist bone.

Matthews mom told me later that Colin looked so pitiful going around she told him he could have another piece of candy and then found herself giving him a few handfuls.  Poor guy. 

Apple Picking

Colin broke his wrist on a Thursday afternoon.  That Saturday we were meeting mom, dad, Mary, Robbie, and Sarah to go apple picking.  We had been planning on a weekend at Mary and Robbies but a few weeks ago we were at a friends house and Colin reacted awful to their cat.  He was so puffy and swollen in a matter of minutes and needed his inhaler. He stopped taking one asthma medication that was more allergy preventative so we think that he's always been allergic to cats it was just masking it.  So instead of a weekend we planned on just going up for the day.

Colin couldn't go obviously. He was in so much pain and just miserable. So we left him and Brent at home where they watched movies all day and I drove up with Joel and Norah.  And so Colin wouldn't feel left out we brought our own "flat Colin" with us.  I think we got more pictures of Colin that day than we would've if he had actually been there.

I think its funny how we kept telling Norah not to climb higher and to be careful so we didn't end up with another broken bone....

Joel fell in love with this wooden ghost. I told him I could make it but he was insistent and so upset when I said no.  Little did we know Uncle Robbie went back and bought it for Joel.

Ma-Ma-Maa and Grandpa got Colin a dozen apple cider donuts to bring back to Colin.

Joel Norah and I picked 63lbs of apples. We have made plenty of apple pancakes, apple waffles, apple crisp and tons of applesauce.  The kids and I love to thaw some frozen applesauce just enough that it has some frozen chunks in it.  Brent thought that was weird until I was talking with Uncle Jeff about Grandpas applesauce and he mentioned the frozen chunks too.

It was a fun day and I'm glad we all live close enough to meet in the middle for a day.  

Joel proudly put the ghost in a flower pot and it was a cute addition to our Halloween décor.  About half the neighborhood puts up lights a few days before Halloween.  It makes it less spooky and more fun I think.