Masquerade

The gang at the party in costume. Spaghetti was good, costumes were interesting.

Don't touch my candy

Alison, tired after a hard night of trick or treating, shows her loot.

Evan and I went with Brad and Mima to a train show. Ev liked it for a while, then got ver upset because he couldn't play with the trains.

Candy Man

Evan sorted the candy into bags; didn't have much interest in eating it, just playing with it.

Eat more chikin??

Ladies at the beef store dressed for Halloween.

Party

Evan at the UU church halloween party. He was a Thomas engineer. Alison worked in the haunted house- her job was to scare people coming out the exit.

Wilmaaaaaa!!!

Big Hurricane. Got a lot of it. Wind came in from the north, lost over 10 big trees including Royal Palm. No house or pool damage this time. Power out for 6 days! Ugh, at least the weather was nice--no higher than 75 on any of the 6 days.

Happy Halloween

We took Al & Ev to Bell Tower to trick or treat, and then around the neighborhood. There were very few houses giving out candy; the hurricane spooked them I guess. The church party was 2 nights ago. It was fun. Al worked in the haunted house and Evan went on the hayride in Don Maron's truck. He cried again. He loved trick or treating--held on to candy all evening

Y Challenge

Al and I are in the "Y Challenge" -- We have a pedometer and a cyclometer and we have to keep track of our miles, or fractions of. It took an hour to install hers on the wheelchair; it involves lining up magnets on the spokes and wire placement and programming the "computer." What a pain.

Evan has started "screeching" or banging his head when things don't go his way. Not a good thing. We are going to ignore it.

Ho Hum

You know it's a boring life when the most exciting thing you've said all day is "5 minutes till Lawrence Welk!"

Al and I went to the Y this morning. I really like that jumpy machine that moves your feet. I have no idea what it's called. It's some kind of cardio machine...

Tampa Day

We went to Shriner's yesterday. Al is good; everything went fine. We have to get some minor wc adjustments and deeper shoes for braces. We were waiting in the O&P waiting room when 5 of the TB Buccaneers came in and signed pennants for the kids. I forgot the players' names but this guy is not one of them. He's probably a star QB or something...

Watching "Bideos"

When Alison was 1 she watched Barney with this look, Ev is watching either the Wiggles or Thomas...

I took Evan to the Infant & Toddler Expo at Harborside. It was very dumb. I had to pay $3. admission just to walk around and look at people's advertising. There were supposed to be pony rides, games, and shows. They had a goat, a snake, a moonwalk, and 2 clowns. We left after 20 minutes.

Settings

I'm fooling around with different camera settings. This is the "portrait" setting. I don't know... I may try setting the stops myself next time...

Two Headed Kitten

The Honda van wouldn't start at Ev's playgroup today. It had to be towed to Firestone. It needs a new starter.

Evan went down the "big" slide at KJD park. This year he's more interested in climbing and sliding than eating the shredded tire pieces on the ground.

Kittens Everywhere

Free Kittens! Come and get them. Anyone who would like a cat, let me know. we have grey tabbies, solid greys with white faces and feet and black kittens. Males and females. email jcarville1@yahoo.com for more kitten pictures.

Day 4 of crappy weather

The rain and clouds are getting depressing. It's still too hot to really work outside and too yucky to swim. Alison is working on her Thespian project for "I Hate Hamlet." She has to design tickets, a program, poster, and press releases.

The cats are so messy. I have to redo their litter box every day, sweep their room and wash the floor. Evan's been crawling up onto the table and countertops and getting into trouble. He hasn't fallen yet.

Alarm Sabotage

Someone unplugged my alarm clock last night. I plugged it back it, reset it, and fell asleep. Well, not only did the monster unplug it but he turned the volume down to zero as well. So I woke up late -- didn't hear the alarm at all. Barely got up in time to get Al ready for school. Put my whole day off. I've felt crappy all morning and afternoon. Got a t-shirt for $1. at Lamb of God Thrift store. Cool.

Bad Mirror

I was at the Y this morning and the place was filled with "serious workout people." I was noticing that there weren't any "fattish" people in at that time of day when I suddenly caught sight of one walking in the side wall mirror. "Oh, here comes one," I thought. Then I stopped short, turned and really looked. AGGGGGHHHHH!! It was me! How depressing. I exercised the crap out of myself today, literally. At least Evan behaved and stayed in the child care for almost an hour...

A funny thing... Evan calls his potty the "bobby." He calls Melon "minnow" and balloons "balls." The new Super Target has these big red balloons at the front and he loves them.

No rain, low pool

The pool has a leak so when it doesn't rain we have to fill it with the hose. We've tried to fix these leaks so many times and then another one pops up. I've started watering the yard plants. Got a new sprinkler. It was $1.88. It cost less than the bag of candy I got at the same time...

Made it to church

The kids are doing a little better today. We made it to church and I got to do the sound. Yay! That was fun.

It's incredibly hot, in the 90's still and NO rain.

The 3 of us alone...

Mike's gone to NY. Just the 3 of us and we had a busy weekend planned. Unfortunately, both the kids got sick. So we're at home with fussing and coughing and wiping noses every two seconds... Fun. Don't know if we'll make it to church tomorrow...