Last soccer game

My last soccer game was last Saturday.  It wasn't until noon, so after breakfast I decided to dress up in my Ironman costume and play in it before the game.  Mom even did my hair again and put my goatee on.  Then Mom checked her email (at 10:15am) and the coach had sent a message that the game had been moved to 10am!!!!  So Mom told me to hurry and get my soccer clothes on so we could race to the field and play at least part of the game.

I didn't have time to wash my face, so Tony Stark showed up for the last ten minutes of the game.

Ha! Ha!  It was actually me!

I think I'm finally getting the hang of soccer, now that it's over.  See how I'm chasing down the ball (I'm #5).

And do you like the way my teammate and I are fighting over the ball?

Look, I'm actually taking control of the ball!

So, I didn't score any goals this season, but I still had fun (after the first two weeks that were miserable).  I think I might play again next year!

Halloween!

Did you know Tony Stark has a twin brother???

I'm changing my name to Tony.


I LOVE Halloween! I love dressing up and getting tons of candy.  We went trick-or-treating with some friends.  It was a little tough to get everyone looking at the camera at once and it looks like none of us like each other, but we really do.

Sydney loved my Ironman costume and says Ironman all the time now.  She kept trying to be Ironman in her elephant costume and kept pretending she could shoot energy from her hands like me.

We were really lucky that it wasn't raining (cuz it had been for a few days before) and it was pretty warm.

Fighting bad guys--I mean, trick-or-treating--sure can wear you out.  Check out my hair after all that time outside.

That's okay, Tony's hair takes a beating too when he's fighting bad guys.

Sydney came back early from trick-or-treating and hung out with Mom while she passed out candy.  After our friends went home, Syd and I checked out our loot.  YUM!

Can't wait till next Halloween!

Pre-Halloween Activities

To get ready for Halloween, we did a few fun activities.

Of course you have to decorate sugar cookies for Halloween.  I'm pretty good at it, but Sydney just likes to wipe the frosting off her cookie and then lick it off her finger.

We both ended up with black tongues:

You always have to carve a pumpkin for Halloween.  I love carving pumpkins, but I hate the ooey gooey stuff.  Usually Dad handles that, but he was at work and Mom wanted to kill some time, so she did it.  Sydney seemed really interested in the pumpkin when Mom first took off the top and showed her all the guts.

But she refused to touch the insides too.  So I kept her entertained while Mom did all the dirty work.

I did help draw the pumpkin face, cut it out, and paint it.  Can you tell what it is?  I'm a little obsessed.

On another day, we made ghosts out of marshmallows.  Sydney made one too.  But after she glued on the marshmallows, she ate them when Mom wasn't looking.  Then she ate mine too--while it was hanging on my wall!

Of course we made a pumpkin for Cooper and took it to him.  I drew the face and Sydney drew some stuff on it too. 

 

The day before Halloween we went to our ward trunk-or-treat.  They had a chili cook-off before and Mom won a prize for most unique chili!  It was her creamy white chicken chili.  Sydney didn't eat Mom's chili, but she liked whatever other kind Mom gave her.

And believe it or not, that was the only picture Mom and Dad took at the trunk-or-treat.  But there was a professional photographer there taking pics of people in their costumes.  This is the one of me and Syd.

 

 I won a prize too for most elaborate costume because I had a light on my chest for Ironman that actually worked.  More pics of that in the next post.

And finally, on the day of Halloween, we weren't allowed to wear costumes to school AND we didn't have a Halloween Party, we had a "Harvest Celebration," because some people don't believe in Halloween.  Mom and I made some pumpkin pretzels as a treat to share with the class.

They took a loooooong time to make.  Here they are all finished.  Do they look a little like pumpkins?  Even if they don't, they sure tasted good.  Although Mom thinks they took way too much time for a class of five-year-olds who would gobble them up in two seconds.

 

Mt. Rainier Train Ride

Mom bought tickets on Groupon for us to take a train ride down near Mt. Rainier. How fun does that sound?  The only problem was that on the day we went, it was freezing!  41 degrees outside and probably not much warmer inside the non-heated train car.  You could totally see your breath inside.

Here's what the train car looked like:

This is what it looked like from the back of the train:

Pretty, huh?  And if it hadn't been rainy and foggy, we were supposed to see views of Mt. Rainier too.

I took this picture of Mom and Dad:

After I took this one:

It's hard holding that heavy camera and trying to push a little button and make sure people are in the picture all as the same time!

After being on the train for about 45 minutes, it stopped and let us out for a little walk.  Now I'm sure that walk would have been quite enjoyable on a sunny day, but it was cold and wet when we got off.  But that didn't stop us from walking along the tracks and getting a peek at the front of the train.

On our way back, Mom and I went to the front train car and got to see the engine.

This was the view from the side of the car:

I had fun, even though it was cold.  And Sydeny seemed to like it too.  I think Mom was freezing the whole time and probably would have liked to go in the summer instead of the end of October.  Oh, well, it was a good deal on Groupon so she can't complain too much.  And it's always nice to go on a little adventure that's different than what we do every day.

The Pumpkin Patch

It had been rainy and yucky here for a week and then there was an amazing day when the sun came out--for two days in a row.  So Mom hurried us off to a pumpkin patch on the second morning so that I could get back in time for PM school.  It was perfect because it was sunny AND dry since it hadn't rained the day before.  We went to Thomasson Family Farm.  Get ready for lots of pictures!

I got to milk a cow and then I sat on a horse and tried to rope a cow.  Those ropes are kind of heavy and hard to swing.

Sydney sat on a horse too, but she didn't do any roping.

I pumped some water so my duck could when a race.  That was hard.  Sure am glad I don't have to do that to get water at home!

Down a slide:

Riding a toy:

The corn box was the best!  It was just a giant box filled with dry corn to play in!

Making a corn angel:

Sydney had a tough time walking in it at first, so she practiced a bit while I buried my legs.

Jumping off a hay bale:

More fun:

Sydney was too small to get up the bales herself, so I had to help her.

I wish I could have stayed in that thing the whole time we were there.  But there were some school kids on a field trip there, and when they got to the corn box it was really crowded, so we got out.

Farmer Ty:

Farmer Syd (who wouldn't look directly at the camera):

Riding on the tractor train:

After playing lots, we finally headed out to the field to find pumpkins:

I chose this nice big one and even helped push the pumpkins back to the car.

You'll notice we don't have any cute traditional pumpkin patch pictures of me and Sydney sitting on a bale of hay or on a pile of pumpkins.  Blame Sydney.  That girl won't stay still for pictures and if you ask her to pose for a picture in any way, she just says, "no."

We go to eat lunch at the farm before heading home and Mom got me to school right on time.  I had soooooo much fun.  Can't wait to go back next year!