Mysterious Pumpkin Program

Saturday we finally have solved a mystery. For 5 years while driving in the car Matthew would randomly yell out, "There are my ohs!" He would keep saying it until he was acknowleged. We have been trying to figure out what in the world this was and we finally did Saturday. We were driving when he yelled out, "There is my ohs!" We stopped and had Matthew give us direction to his ohs and eventually found ourselves in front of a power pole. All this time he was saying he saw his ohs and it was just a power pole. I really wonder what goes through his mind at times.

Saturday night we went to the annual Syracuse Pumpkin Walk. It was pretty fun to see all the different carved pumpkins. They even had trick-or-treat stations along the way to give the kids candy, play doh and stickers. The kids were more interested in the stations than the pumpkins, but what can you do when candy and toys are involved? Sarah enjoyed being carried the whole time even though my arm was about to fall off by the time we were finished. The weather was nice enough that Aaron and I wore shorts and sandals. That's pretty crazy for October! We took a picture of a few pumpkins including a Luke Skywalker with Yoda and also Joseph Smith. We also got one of our alma mater the "Y".

Today was the primary program at church. Matthew and Josh both had speaking parts. We were curious to see how they both would do because Josh got stage fright last year. Last year when he got up to the microphone and saw the audience, he turned around without saying a word and went back to his seat. He did great and there was no stage fright this time. Matthew did great when he did his speaking part, but he sure gave his primary teachers a good workout through the whole program. I nervously watched because they sat him quite close to the piano and he has taken a whole new interest in playing with our piano at home. Luckily, the teachers have gotten pretty fast at catching him and knowing Matthew's impulsive triggers. Aaron and Daniel had to stay home because Daniel woke up sick and wheezing this morning so we needed to start nebulizer treatments again. Oh the joys of cold and flu season.

Sarah's head squeezers sometimes fall over her eyes. It happens pretty often--often enough that she doesn't cry right away anymore when it happens--poor thing. I guess she is just learning the price of beauty at a young age :).