After a morning filled with soccer games, we headed off to meet Christie and Kathy at the Pumpkin Regatta. Yes, those are pumpkins…really, really big pumpkins that people get in and race…in their Halloween costumes. There was Captain America, a chef, Sasquatch and many others. Also, different organizations compete against one another. I think this picture is the local firefighters versus some other group. Sorry, I wasn’t really paying attention, I was too busy trying to distract Colm so I could eat some of his kettle corn while he wasn’t paying attention.
Archive for October 22nd 2011
So I basically won the mom of the year award after our little outing today. The boys have been wanting to go to this place for a while and since we didn’t have school we invited some friends from school and off we went. It’s basically a place with four or five different “arenas” that are made out of trampolines. One is just for jumping, one is for jumping and diving into huge pits of foam and another one is just for dodgeball. (I don’t know what the other ones are for…we never made it that far.) The boys played HARD for an hour or so and were hot and sweaty by the end. Liam and his friends played dodgeball all that time and Colm and his friend (and all of the younger siblings of Liam’s friends) jumped and jumped and jumped some more. They both want to have their birthday parties here now.
It’s official. Liam has been invited to test for his black belt. I got a little weepy holding this form in my hand during the parent meeting for all of those invited to test. Liam has worked so hard for this. He will do great. I know he will, but he still has a lot of work to do over the next three weeks…like write a three page paper on the history of tae kwon do.
