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October
2006 Journal
October
is here...and we are going to be busy!
I hope we can do a better job at updating the site.
So, visit us often and feel free to drop us an email to let
us know what you are up to!
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It's
Bowling Season!
October 1st, 2006 |
Well, actually
you can bowl all year round, I suppose...but we like to save it for
the Fall/Winter season. I've been asking to go all week, so
this morning we got up and went!
I LOVE IT! I did so good and was excited that I got FIVE
splits! Woo-Hoo! I'm still learning the whole "roll" the
ball down the lane thing. It 's hard, as the ball is still a
bit heavy for me. Mommy did really good and Daddy,
well....he had an "off" day. Mommy had a "smokin' strike"!
The animation for it was funny...the ball was on fire running around
the pins!
We are hoping to get to Rock -n- Glow Bowl night this year...just
need to assemble the gang!
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Fall Harvest
Festival
October 1st, 2006 |
Today was a fun
afternoon spent with friends, Jen and Darrin. Their church was
having a fund-raising festival to raise money for their Thanksgiving
basket project. During the Thanksgiving holiday their church
assembles over 400 baskets filled with food for the holiday meal and
disperses them to the needy families in the community.
After some quick geocaching we headed over there to participate in
the festivities. We had a nice time. I climbed in some
of those blow-up amusement ride things, made a spin art, rode a
"train" ride (twice), we all went on a hayride, played some games
(one of which I dunked their Pastor into the tank :), I got cheers
from everyone in line and then he tried to splash me! It was
funny!), and boy, did we all eat some yummy food! Daddy and
Darrin were most excited about the roasted pig! I got myself
some yummy cotton candy! It was HUGE and only cost ONE dollar!
I ate it all up and would not share any of it.
They also had the local fire department there giving rides in their
ladder truck, I just watched that...you weren't getting me up there!
Then we got to see something cool...a hot-air balloon company
came...it was fun watching them set up the balloon! Boy, they
are huge. They game tethered rides too....again, I passed.
It looked really pretty when it started to get dark and you could
see the fire light it all up! We stayed the whole time and
just really enjoyed ourselves. There was a good turn out of
people and I hope they were able to raise enough money for their
baskets of goodies. We made sure that between all of us we
spent enough to buy 2 baskets! Their goal for this year
is 700 baskets, we'll have to let you know how they did!
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OH NO!
October 3, 2006 |
Daddy took the
day off to do some geocaching with some friends. Well...he
took the camera with him...and LOST it! He noticed it pretty
early in his adventures and they searched and searched, but no luck.
Bummer. We lost all our pictures from the Harvest Festival,
but nothing that was too extra special or out of the ordinary.
Mommy is pretty sure she knows what happened...the snap was kind of
rusted (thanks to another one of Daddy's geo-adventures...ahem,
noticing a pattern here...heehee). Daddy probably thought he
had it snapped on and in reality it was not, on jostle/stumble and
off it went. Daddy thinks after retracing his steps numerous
times, that it's floating down the river. :(
Guess we are going camera shopping this week!
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New Camera!
October 6, 2006 |
We can not go
very long without a camera! So, tonight we headed to Best Buy.
We got the Kodak EasyShare C875 Zoom Digital Camera. It is an
8 mega pixel and 5X optical zoom camera. Much, much better
than our old one. We should be able to get much better zoomed
photos than before. It is bigger than our old camera, but
still a nice compact size.
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Soccer Game #5
October 7, 2006 |
We had an early
game today...and it was cold outside. Mommy bundled me all up
in layers of long clothes.
Well, that didn't matter...I didn't feel like playing and I came up
with every excuse in the book to not do so. First, I didn't
feel good, then I was too tired, then it was too cold....blah, blah,
blah. I simply refused to go out there. I wanted to go
home. Daddy and Mommy were not very happy with me. They
made me stay and watch the game and I wasn't even allowed to sit
down or lean on them! I was NOT happy and it made for quite an
embarrassing moment for all of us.
Mommy and Daddy talked to me about being a part of a team, how you
can't let people down. I think I kind of understand, but life
is all about me, isn't it? I'm confused. I wasn't happy
when Daddy called Amanda to tell her we wouldn't be going to the
corn maze. Everyone was really disappointed...it was a
disappointing kind of day, and to tap things off the sun never did
come out! We would like to just scratch this day off our
calendars and out of our minds and move on.
Daddy talked to the coach about me. I have them all confused.
I really enjoy (well, seem to anyways) soccer practice and even
playing in the games when I did before. I have more practices
coming up and a game this week. I'm under some strict rules
and consequences for this upcoming game. Wish me luck!
I'm sure Mommy will fill you all in on how I do. I've heard
them talking about what may be going on with me. I guess they
have some ideas. My "bathroom" issues may have caused some of
this past games malfunction.
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It's Fall
October 8, 2006 |
What a beautiful
day! Compared to yesterday...that we have already forgotten
about, well to a point. I wasn't allowed to watch any TV, my
movies or play my computer or video games! Anyway, Daddy
cleaned up , well started to, the garage. I helped him to
organize his workbench/peg board. That was fun. I lined
up all his wrenches from longest to shortest, so he knew how to hang
them up. Mommy was busy cleaning up the house (man, she is
always doing that!) and decorating for Fall/Halloween! We went
to Pumpkin World and got our pumpkins, gourds and hay bale for
outside. This year, Mommy bought some Mums. They sure do
look pretty outside...I wonder if she will "kill" those too!
We aren't much into plants around here!
We ended our night with an ice cream treat from Brusters.
Yummy!
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Soccer Game #6
October 11, 2006 |
We were lucky
tonight, my game didn't get rained out! I did much better for
this game. Tonight, for the first time, I played defense.
This position is hard for me, as there isn't much action and as you
have been told before, I have a hard time remaining focused. I
did a good job though, I held my position like I was supposed too
and did kick a few balls out from near the goal. THEN...Coach
Matt asked me if I wanted to be goalie! YEA! This was
hard, as it gets kind of boring...but I did pay attention and got
ready when I saw the other team or ball coming my way. I
didn't have to stop any balls though, my teammates did a great job
at keeping it away!
We didn't score any points this game but we all had a fun time.
I only have one "official" game left and then we have a tournament
play day!
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Soccer Game #7
October 14, 2006 |
The Hartley's
came to watch me play my soccer game today! I told the coaches
that I wanted to play defense, so they let me. I played that
position for almost the entire game. I didn't see the ball
much this time, as my team pretty much dominated the ball. We
scored 2 goals this week. I did get to kick the ball out a few
times. Even though I don't appear to be paying much attention
to the game, I am ready when I do see the ball coming my way.
Coaches said only one soccer practice this week and then it's "play
day"! Rumor has it that Uncle JG will be coming...I hope he
can make it for sure!
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A Weekend
at Tanglewood Cabin
October 14-15th, 2006 |
Saturday ~
The Hartley's invited us for another weekend at the cabin....we
were excited to go...and boy, was it cold! We went there right
after my game, and it was colder inside than it was outside!
Brrr....Darrin turned on the heaters while Jen got stuff ready for
lunch! We ate yummy burgers (the size of small aircrafts!) and
hot dogs! Jen made some yummy homemade soup...well, the
grown-ups said it was yummy. After we ate, we loaded up in the
car and headed to a trail called, Poole Steeple. It was a nice
hike in the state forest that was mostly straight up! Everyone
couldn't get over how well I did. It was fun, there were all
kinds of rocks to climb on the way to the top! I was
pretending that that dirt was "hot lava" and you couldn't fall in!
It made for a fun hike, a bit longer than the boys had anticipated
us to get there, but Mommy kept reminding them that "it's not
reaching the destination, it's the journey of getting there!"
(We need to have that quote somewhere displayed in our house!)
Anyway, we stopped on a nice large rock to take a rest and get some
water...and I found a neat "face" in the rock. I had Daddy
take my picture with it, but I don't think he got the "face" in it.
Oh well. Then, they all had me turn around and there was this
huge mountain (technically a large quartzite rock outcropping) of
rock that just appeared from the trees! Then they said we were
going on top of it! YIKES! What?! Are you joking?
Daddy and Darrin discussed following the trail that goes around to
the back....OR heading straight up the front, on the less traveled
path. (Oh, by the way, this was the busiest place for a hike,
we never saw so many people on a hike before, it's a pretty popular
place!). Mommy and Jen decided to go around, since the
pregnant lady probably shouldn't be climbing up a mountain! I,
yes, Cole Proper, decided to go with the boys. They said
"okay" and up we went...I climbed those rocks like a mad man!
Daddy could barely keep up with me, Darrin couldn't get far enough
ahead of me to get a decent picture! It was so much FUN!
Daddy kept calling me his little rock climber! Fearless, I was
and couldn't wait to get to the top! We climbed up over about
the same time that the girls got there! They couldn't believe
that I did it either! It was soo cool up there! We sat
down and took a few photos and enjoyed the view. We could see
for miles! We were hoping to see some more Fall colors on the
leaves, but we must have been a week too soon, oh well...it was
still pretty! After some exploring and I could have stayed
longer...we headed back down...this was a lot harder...but I did it.
Walking almost the entire way down by myself. I only slipped
and fell once. Daddy carried me on his shoulders for the last
"leg" of the hike and to the car.
Next, we decided to check out that POW camp that we found last time
we came to the cabin. Daddy wanted to drop off some travel
bugs at it and take some more photos of things we missed last time.
Boy, does Mother Nature like to reclaim it's own! Things were
really overgrown this time...we had a hard time finding some of the
stuff. It was fun exploring, this time we found a free
standing wall that was left of a barn.
Time to head back to the cabin for dinner and games and of course,
marshmallow sandwiches! Yummy! We all laughed that we
were exhausted by 9 o'clock and in bed that early! I fell
asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow!
Sunday ~ We woke to the smell of a yummy breakfast
cooking. Darrin made me pancakes! I love Darrin...he's
going to make a great Dad! heehee. We decided that we
all felt good enough to do some geocaches before our day had to end.
Daddy found some that were close and would be easy hikes. One
was on this back road that you really would need 4-wheel drive if
the weather was anything but sunny! Anyway, it was called
Hammond Rocks and they are located in Michaux State Forest.
This was an Earthcache so it has to bring you to an interesting
geological area and teach you something about it.
Link to Hammonds Rocks geocache. I loved this one
too...there were a lot of rocks to climb and explore! We spent
a long time here. Sadly, there was a lot of graffiti and
broken glass in the area, so I did have to be careful. I
thought the graffiti was nice. I thought they were "clues
written in Chinese!". Everyone just laughed at me!
We ventured to another geocache that I found really quickly and it
was time to head home!
We had such a nice weekend! I can't wait to do it again!
Thanks to the Hartley's for inviting us!
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My First Official
Day of Preschool
October 16, 2006 |
I have a new
teacher, Ms. Kristi. She started last week, but things are now
"officially" in swing for the year. We are talking about Fall
and starting over with our letters. This week is "A".
I'm learning a lot this year, especially now that I don't have to
take a nap and I get to go back with Ms. Cathy in the kindergarten
room and have lessons with her too! We are talking about
Spiders and learning the letter "H"! Hope I don't get
confused! Heck, with all this "learning" I won't need
kindergarten! HA!
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Soccer
Play Day ~ A Season Ends
October 21, 2006 |
Today was our
soccer play day! I was excited because Uncle JG came to visit
for the weekend and to see me play. Our day started early, as
our first game was at 9 o'clock. I played a little defense and
offense. Unfortunately, our team lost, so we had to come back
to play again at 11. I played both positions again and my team
did a great job, but we lost again, so the "play day" was over for
us. Our coaches had a pizza party for us after the game and
they presented all of us with a ribbon, a medal (which is really
cool, it has my name, year and number on it!) and we also got a CD
for the computer with a picture slide show of my teammates playing
throughout the season.
I was sure to thank all of my coaches and they said that they hope
to see me playing again next year.
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Pumpkin Carving!
October 26, 2006 |
We stopped at
the Milton Hershey School to buy some pumpkins for carving and got a
great deal on some pumpkins! Since the "holiday" season is
almost over they were on sale...so we loaded up! We bought a
whole bunch, some big ones, little ones, goofy shaped and bumpy
ones!
I picked out some that we painted and then I drew faces on two of
the pumpkins for us to carve. Daddy started carving the small
one while I did the big one! Daddy's pumpkin gave him an awful
time! There was something wrong with the shell on it...it was
about a half inch thick and hard as a rock! Daddy asked me if
I accidentally picked out an orange coconut! I laughed and
said no! We got through it without Daddy having to resort to
using his jigsaw from the garage...although that would have made for
a funny picture! We scooped out the "guts" (still not my
favorite part, so I used the fancy spoon Mommy bought), Mommy
cleaned off the seeds and toasted them. Daddy and me lit the
candles and put them on the porch!
I can't wait for Halloween!
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Halloween
Party #1
October 27, 2006 |
Today was my
Halloween party in Ms. Cathy's class! I took pretzels (that
Mommy covered in white chocolate...yummy!) and chips. I also
made my teacher a Halloween mug filled with candy corn! She
loved it!
Anyway, everyone thought my costume was great! I told Mommy it
would be awesome....and she said she had to agree that I looked
"awesome" in it! A lot of my friends were out sick, either ate
too much candy trick or treating the night before...or something is
going around. So, only 4 of my friends were at school.
They had cool costumes too. In attendance were: The
Flash (that's me!), Cinderella, Leonardo Ninja Turtle, and the
Little Mermaid. We had fun running around in our costumes and
then we watched 2 Halloween movies! It was a fun day and a
great way to end the week!
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Friendly Get
Together
October 27, 2006 |
We finally got
together with friends tonight and got to see the Fisher's new house
AND celebrate Maysen's 2nd birthday! I picked out a really
cool gift for her and she LOVED it! It was a little art easel
made by Parents. One side was for markers and the other was a
magnetic chalk board. It came with chalk, markers, these cool
magnetic stencil shapes and paper. It has a neat storage
compartment and it all folds up so you can carry it and take it with
you. Maysen and I played with it for a long time. Mommy
said my behavior was pretty good, but I just don't do well with kids
that much younger than me. It was a struggle for me to be
polite, and I did okay. Mommy said it was just a reminder of
why I may never have a sibling. Oh well. The grown-ups
had a nice time visiting with each other, it had been since my party
that we all have gotten together...again, far too long! How
does that happen? We hope to get together again soon....and
definitely for the holidays. It's too bad that we all decided
to move so far away from each other...ugh, what were we thinking?
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Happy
Birthday Derrick
October 28, 2006 |
My friend
Derrick turned six years old! He had a Halloween theme
party...so, I got to get all decked out in my costume again!
Daddy took me to his party, stayed for a little while and decided I
was doing fine all by myself! We had a great time playing with
Derrick's toys in his newly remodeled basement! We ate yummy
cake and ice cream, played games and just had a fun time being with
friends! I got Derrick a cool Lego's City Ambulance. I
like these things so much that I figured he would too!
What a fun day! I love parties!
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Hershey
Park in the Dark
October 28, 2006 |
We went to
Hershey tonight for their Halloween festivities. I wore my
awesome Flash costume and got all kinds of compliments on it.
I must say it again, I look pretty awesome in it.
First, we had to go to Chocolate World! I got my trick or
treat bag and we rode the factory tour ride...again. It would
be interesting to know just how many times we have done that.
I rode my favorites, the train, the cars, the rockets over and over
again. About 3 times each! Daddy and me went on the new
Reese Challenge Laser Tag ride. It was really cold and windy
out.
We walked through the new Treatsville and I got some more candy
there! The weather did put a damper on things for us, but we
still had a good time and decided to go home, order a pizza and make
some hot chocolate.
It was a fun night. Happy Halloween!
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Bummer...I have
the flu!
October 29, 2006 |
Well, I was
supposed to spend the day with my friend Drew, but while Mommy,
Daddy and I were out for breakfast, I started not feeling too good.
Mommy and Daddy decided that plans had to be scrapped and we would
have to head back home. Mommy and Daddy were going to spend
the day geocaching up some mountain. It wasn't long before I
fell back asleep and ended up throwing up all over my room and my
bathroom. Sorry.
It's going around at my school and Mommy hasn't been feeling that
great herself. I am staying home with Mommy tomorrow and
hopefully, will be back to my old self for Tuesday. It's party
day at school AND trick or treat night! I don't want to miss
either of those!
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School
Halloween Party
October 31, 2006 |
I'm all better
and ready for a party! Today, was my preschool party and
parade. Ms. Kristi had the room all decorated with streamers,
the lights out and spooky music playing! She was dressed up
too! She was a witch! My friends liked my costume and
they had some neat ones too! Let me see if I can remember what
everyone was...there was SuperGirl, Spiderman, Barbie, The Hulk, and
2 Batman's. We had a fun day of activities after the parade.
Mommy is hoping Ms. Kristi got some pictures because Mommy was too
busy with her class to get any of mine. Anyway, we had a
pumpkin painting contest, which I won the Most Creative award, guess
how many candy corns game, I won that too, and a Mummy race!
We had to wrap a friend up in toilet paper...it was funny!
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Trick or Treat!
October 31, 2006 |
Our trick or
treat night was tonight....and boy, we could not have had better
weather! I was able to wear light clothes under my costume as
it was almost 70 degrees outside with no wind! We got an early
start, right out of the gate at 6pm! I hit the neighbors that
I know first and then around the block we went! Everyone was
out....there sure were a lot of kids running around...and parents
chasing after them! Not me...I take my time. I think
Daddy thinks I'm nuts! Some people sure do go all out to
decorate their house for Halloween and especially this special
night! I told Mommy that I wasn't to make our house spooky for
next year. This one house, which we tried to take a photo but
it was so dark outside. You have to go in their garage and it
was all dark and smokey and they had a table set up with rats,
skeletons, body parts on a pizza! It was cool! Then we
saw the fire company was in our neighborhood, so we stopped there
and the fireman gave me a whole handful of candy and a light up
necklace to wear! That was nice of them! Anyway, after
the one giant loop that we made, I had about enough and kept asking
if we were done yet? I had enough candy....my bucket was full
and heavy! I wanted to go home and help pass out the candy but
when we got home...our candy was gone! Oh my...we ran out,
only 1 hour in to trick or treat night! Sorry.
Guess Mommy miscalculated the number of kids that would be out!
Guess we will buy triple that amount for next year. Daddy
talked to the neighbors and they said that they had gone over 300
some pieces! That's a lot of trick or treaters!
Happy Halloween!
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