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October
2005 Journal
We are
always busy in October. Seems to get worse each
year! But hey, we are having fun!
Planning on a get together with friends, Daddy has a
geocaching trip planned, lots of stuff going on at my
"school" and you can't forget all the Fall and
Halloween stuff! YAY!
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Letter
"N" Day
October
4, 2005 |
Mommy & me
worked hard on my homework for this day. It was letter
"N" day and we painted some noodles and made a necklace.
It was fun picking out what colors I was going to use to paint them
and then stringing them all on once the paint had dried. We
were singing while we were working too....."noodle,
necklace...noodle, necklace...".
Lots of my friends brought things in like" Nerds, nuts,
noodles, nails and necklaces". We had to cut out big
letter N's and glue nuts on them and draw something else that begins
with "N". I drew noodles. Ms. Carol says I do
a good job with my scissors. I can write the letter
"N" now too. "Up, down, up"...."Up,
down, up".
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Game
Night with Friends
October
7, 2005 |
It was a long
overdue time for a party. We all got together at the Hartley's
tonight. The Fisher's were there and so were the
Lemmons. It was nice to see everyone again and I was
especially excited to see Sam! They were late getting in because
the traffic in and around DC was bad, plus the weather was
horrible. It must have rained all day long and night too! (See
next entry)
Anyway, we all ate lots of food, as usual. Mostly the
grown-ups talked a lot. Sam and I played hard. We ran
around for a bit, laughed a lot, played some video games and a game
of Uno Attacks. I ended up winning that game. It was
fun!
It finally got pretty late and Mommy & Daddy decided it was time
to go home. I of course, was not happy about it, insisted that
I was NOT tired...and fell asleep in the car on the way home.
Zzzzz
Mommy put me into bed.....then Daddy yelled for her..............
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When
It Rains...It Pours!
October
7, 2005 |
We haven't had
any rain for sooo long. It had actually been weeks, but today
it rained and rained and rained some more. Daddy checked the
sump pump before we left for the party and it was fine. Actually, not
even running yet because nothing was even coming in the pipe
yet. That was around 6pm.
We got home a little after 1am and Daddy could hear the pump
running, so he figured he would run downstairs and check
things. Good thing he did! The pump was working fine and
doing its job...however, it was pumping so much and so well, that
where the builders put the drain pipe outside (which is right beside
the house and next to the window well) was over saturating the yard,
so the window was filling up with water and that was pouring into
the basement, down the wall and onto the floor. Thankfully, we
have most things down there in some kind of plastic and thank
goodness we checked on things and as soon as we did.
Mommy & Daddy rigged up some kind of "quick fix" of
PVC pipe and Duct Tape and it did the trick. The
"flooding" stopped in a matter of minutes and things have
gotten dried out. It's been raining for a few more days and
it's still okay.
Hopefully, we have this all figured out so we can safely finish the
basement some day.
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FunCare
Learning Center...SOLD!
October
9, 2005 |
Well, Mommy had
a meeting this afternoon. I got to go along because Daddy was
away. I played in Mommy's classroom while she had her
meeting. She can fill you in.
Yea, Judy had
told us a few weeks ago about this "meeting" we needed to
come to on Sunday. She was sorry it had to be a "Sunday"
but that was when it had to be. Couldn't tell us what it was
about, it wasn't mandatory but highly recommended that we go.
Hmmmm? Well, speculations and rumor flew those 2 weeks at
work. I can't say that we were surprised but were still in
shock when the truth FINALLY came out. In a nutshell.
The daycare has a new owner, Holly. We have a new name
Discovery Lane Childcare. Nothing is "supposed" to
change. Well, nothing major. I would imagine that a new
person is going to have some new ideas and of course she should
have. It's really hard to say anymore than that. People
are still a bit in "shock". Parents too. Of
course, they were a bit more shocked to find out that staff had no
idea either. Staff is in good spirits and kind of excited
about a "new start". I guess I will just keep a
positive attitude and we'll see what happens!
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Linglestown
Fire Company Visits "Discovery Lane"
October
11, 2005 |
I had an
exciting day at school today. The local fire station came to
see us. They brought there big truck and a few of the fire
fighters. We talked about all kinds of fire safety
rules. We got to meet "Fireman Rob" see/feel that he
was a real friendly person and then watched him put on each piece of
his fireman "outfit". He looked different and
sounded like Darth Vader in that thing! But we were to remember
that it was still friendly fireman Rob in there. Next, we got
to sit in the fire truck and blow the horns, lights and siren.
It was a fun day and the rain stayed away too. All the kids in
the whole center got to see it...even the babies! To top things
off, we all got cool hats, badges and tattoos from the
firemen! It was a fun day.
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Letter
"F" Day!
October
12, 2005 |
Today was letter
"F" day. It took me a while to figure out what I was
going to bring. Daddy helped me and we
picked...Flashlight! Mommy & me have fun playing "Say
a word that starts with F" on the way to and from
"school".
We also made Fire Truck cookies and watched a fire truck video
today! We cut out letter F's and everyone shared their letter
F items. Some friends brought, frogs, flowers, fire trucks,
flags and "Floam".
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Happy
Birthday Maysen!
October
15, 2005 |
Today was
Maysen's ONE year old birthday party. She turned the big ONE
yesterday! Her party was nice. I had a lot of fun
running around with other kids there, eating pizza, cake and helping
to open presents. She got a lot of nice things. I got
her a "HotWheels" (it was a bigger plastic, safe for
babies one), Baby Einstein DVD and a book. She is starting to
walk now too. It was funny to watch her do her side-step
walk. Plus, she wasn't shy when it came time to eat her
cake. She had icing EVERYWHERE!
Happy Birthday Maysen!
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Some
"City" Caching!
October
16, 2005 |
It FINALLY
stopped raining and we could get out and about to do some
geocaching. Today we went back down to the capital building in
Harrisburg. We had a travel bug that wanted to go there, so we
stopped and took some pictures. I loved the fountain, but it
was soo windy. You had to be careful and fast or you would get
soaked! We did some other caches around the city too. I
think we did a total of 4. We only need to do 2 more to reach
500! Wow, that's a lot! We are hoping to do that this
week before the event cache we are going to on Thursday.
Today, I had a fun time "gooey-caching", you never know
when that is going to happen. heehee.
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Letter
"J" Day
October
19, 2005 |
Today was letter
"J" day, so I took some of Grandma's homemade
"jelly". We even had some of it for
snack. It was yummy.
Some friends brought jump ropes, jackets and jellybeans! We
had to cut out the letter "J" and "face" pieces
so we could make "Jack-o-lantern J's". That was fun!
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"World
Class" Geocache Event
October
20, 2005 |
Tonight we went
to a geocaching event at the Red Robin in Hershey. There were
geocachers from all over attending. The "event"
was organized by CCCooperAgency in recognition of geoPirat (Carsten
Fischer) who holds the record for the most finds in a 24 hour period
(63 finds and 6 DNF's) He came from Kassel Germany to do some
geocaching. He said that he really enjoyed his visit here and
meeting us. I had a good time eating spaghetti and a
milkshake. I also had fun playing with some of the kids that
were there. Even though I fell into the wall and gave myself
quite the "goonie". Oh well. Been awhile since
I've had one of those.
I had fun. Mommy said that we should be going to another one
around Christmas time!
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Derrick's
5th Birthday Party
October
23, 2005 |
My friend,
Derrick is 5 now. He had a party to celebrate. Daddy
& me went. It was at the Paramount Gym and it was a fun
time. We did a lot of gymnastic stuff. I had fun running
around the obstacle course, jumping in the big "sponge
pool", jumping on trampolines and playing with the
parachute. He had a "The Incredible's" party, lots
of pizza and cake for us to eat!
It was a fun day! Thanks Derrick, for inviting me and I hope
you had a happy birthday!
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Pumpkin
Carving
October
24, 2005 |
Tonight Mommy,
Daddy and me cut open 2 of the pumpkins we bought. We did a
great big one and a little one for in the house. I didn't want
to scoop out the "guts" this year with my hands, so I used
a spoon instead. Mommy & Daddy weren't afraid, and got in
there good! I helped to draw the face for the big one and
Daddy and me cut it out. It's a silly face and he is saying,
"ah-oh, spaghetti-o's are all over the table!" (Yea,
Mommy and Daddy don't get it either!). Daddy cut a happy face
in the little one. I helped to light the candles and now we
have 2 happy jack-o-lanterns decorating my house!
Happy Halloween!
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Halloween
Party
October
25, 2005 |
We had our
Halloween party at school today. It was fun! My friends
all had cool costumes too. Miss Carol thought that I was
pretty spooky in my skeleton costume. Or as I like to say,
"sketolen"! We walked around outside in our costumes
for all the parents and family to see our costumes. My class
help to walk Mommy's class around, they are just little guys and we
didn't want any of them to run away. We went back inside and
had fun playing games like, pin the nose on the pumpkin, musical
chairs and something else I can't remember. We ate a big lunch
of all kinds of "junk"! Mommy & me made
chocolate cupcakes and decorated them to look like spiders. I
can't believe we didn't get a picture of the finished
products! Anyway, they were chocolate, with chocolate
frosting, covered in chocolate sprinkles with licorice legs and
M&M eyes! Everyone thought they were yummy!
It was a fun day!
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HersheyPark
in the Dark
October
26, 2005 |
Tonight we went
to Hershey Park! I LOVE Hershey Park! I dressed in my
Thomas costume from last year because I accidentally left my
skeleton costume at school...oops! I rode all my favorite
rides and even got Mommy to go on the Ferris Wheel! I got lots
of candy on their trick or treat trail. My favorite ride was
the spooky train! There were goblins, skeletons and ghosts
along the ride! It was a cold but fun night! I can't
wait to go for Christmas CandyLane!
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Trick
or Treat!
October
31, 2005 |
Our trick or
treat night was tonight. I was kind of bummed that Daddy was
out of town on business but Mommy & me had a fun time. I
RAN up to all the houses. Everyone thought my costume was
great! Again, for the 4th time in a row, we passed NO ONE with
the same costume! Mommy likes that, I could care less.
Anyway, I live in a great neighborhood, everyone gets so into
it. Mostly everyone was sitting outside on their porches or in front
of their garages. Some are dressed in full-blown costumes ( I
didn't know grown-ups liked to dress up too!), some have spooky
music playing, while others have their houses all decorated and one
neighbor (I call it the spooky house) converted their garage into a
"haunted house". You had to walk through this small
tunnel and it was all foggy and dark. There was a table with
skulls, bats, candles, and big rats all over the floor! Two
"friendly" monsters gave me some candy! Mommy told
them how I LOVE to see the spooky house when we drive by every day
on our way to work. I did a good job walking around without
too much complaint, the only problem was that my bucket was getting
too heavy. Next year, Mommy said she will take a bag so I can
empty it half-way through. I wanted to get back and help pass
out candy, I actually think that part is fun too! So, after an
hour, we headed home. Most of the candy Mommy left on the
porch was gone, but we only had a few more trick or treaters come to
the house. The weather couldn't have been better and it was a
fun night. Just sorry that Daddy had to miss it, but I saved
him a Butterfinger!
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