Halloween 2012

Hurricane Sandy was the theme of the week.  Everyone was home listening to the pounding rain and winds, anticipating power outages and massive flooding.  Amazingly, our area was not nearly as bad as anticipated.

The kids were out of school for two days and the Waterford Masquerade in the Village was postponed.  We had no back-up Halloween plans since Waterford would be another night.  But then we had plans!

Dinner with some friends and then to their church for their fall festival.

Luke was obsessed with the games...the more games, the more candy.

School Projects

Carter had to disguise a potato for Halloween.  I found some curly hair at the craft store.
Carter decided the potato would be Hulk Hogan or George Washington.  He decided George Washington and googled a picture of him...and came up with this.

Luke made a map of his street.  A lot of glue, everywhere.  Momma made the street circle and Luke was in charge of everything else.  Again, I say, a lot of glue, everywhere...but fun.

Corn Maize

Carter loves a good maze so when we had a football free Saturday, we headed to a local farm for the fall festivities and the corn maze.
Big hay bales

Race the plastic ducks

Watch the pig race

Corn Maze

 Bounce

 A little show.  That Luke got to participate in!

Nothing but fall fun.

Carter's hand

Carter has his first broken bone, his first cast.

He broke the middle bone of his hand (the 3rd metacarpal to be exact).

He broke it while wrestling.  Yes Carter was wrestling; real wrestling not just horsing around wrestling or faking some WWE wrestling.  A friend of ours is a wrestling coach.  He has two boys close to Carter and Luke's age.  They have a wrestling mat at their house.  They invited our boys over to practice.  Luke was all for it since he loves wrestling.  Carter was not too sure but happy to go to a friend's house.  After the first practice, Carter actually liked wrestling and our friend is a great coach so Carter liked getting his help.

This past Sunday, Carter was wrestling one of the boys and he landed on his hand.  It hurt but we thought it was no big deal.  Carter still went to AWANA at church that night, came home and went to bed.  In the morning, he was still complaining and his hand was a bit swollen.  We went to a doctor for an x-ray.  There was a small break in his hand.  We then headed to the orthopedic doctor.

The doctor said the break was not bad.  He would only be a cast for a couple of weeks and maybe a brace after that.  He selected a purple cast for his football team, the Huskies.

Carter was stressed about it; his team was heading to the football playoffs, basketball try-outs were that night...did I mention Carter is left handed and of course the hand hurt is his left hand.  Carter was worried about writing with his right hand (his right-handed writing is pretty dreadful) and what he would do at recess.

Having his friends sign his cast certainly cheered him up.

As for football playoffs, his team does not play for a couple of weeks so that gives him time to heal.  He did go to basketball and did the best he could with one hand.  He is trying to be patient writing with his right hand and some friends are helping him out.  As for recess...I told him it is only for a couple of weeks.

Not too bad for his first break.  A cast for only a couple of weeks.

Climb to 10

Carter is 10 years old.  We celebrated with a rock climbing party at SportRock (great party).

Lots of climbing, 90 minutes.  All the boys did great, everyone had some success at climbing.  The boys were cheering each other on, now matter how high anyone got.  The determination of all the boys was amazing, they all worked so hard to get as high as possible.

Here are some of Carter and Luke.

Then, of course, pizza and cake.  Carter requested cookie cakes this year.  Lots of fun for the big 10 year old!