Anniversary Flowers

As of last Friday Mom and Dad have been married 44 years.  Wow that's a long time.  Here are the flowers Dad sent Mom.  Way to go, Dad!

Whistlewart Day

Or Whistlepig Day.  Or Groundhog Day.

Charlie made the first one up.  The second is from Curious George - everyone's favorite monkey.  And the third, well that's just common knowledge. 

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(That is Charlie's contribution to the post).

Story time.  Nighty night.

The Lego Tree Of Life

This morning Charlie's friend, Adonis, took a tiny Lego piece out of his coat pocket and tossed it into our front lawn proclaiming it unwanted as he had already chewed on it.  Charlie seemed offended and told me what had just happened as if I had not seen. Adonis bent over and picked it back up and listened as I told them, "Maybe it will grow into a Lego tree." He tossed it back to the ground.

We spent the next few minutes waiting for the bus thinking up all the wonderful parts this tree could grow. Little Lego people. Cars, boats. Handcuffs. I said that I thought Lego handcuffs might not work too well as they could just unsnap very easily, but my son assured me that there were Lego handcuffs and that they don't come apart. Okay.

Waiting for the bus can be fun. 

As for the Tree of Life in the title - I've been doing a lot of Redboxing with my herniated disk/pinched nerve/sciatica/lateral shift - it's a movie Charlie and I watched, well he watched the end part.  A very strange movie.  Something would happen and he would say, "Mommy, why did that happen?" and I would say, "I don't know honey, this is a strange movie."  And a few minutes it would happen again.  It was like a very abstract Groundhog Day.

Hop Year

Charlie - "So Mommy, tell me one more time - does hop year have one more day or less?"

Me - Huh? Oh, leap year.

Charlie - "Yeah, leap year."

Me - Ha. Hop year. One more day.  366.

Charlie - "Oh man.  One more day.  Does that mean I have to go to school for one more day? No fair."

Mullen-Hall Book Fair

This week is the Mullen-Hall Book Fair and oh does Charlie love books.  Must take after his Mommy.  Presently we are reading the first Harry Potter in the series - or as Charlie likes to say - Harry Potty.  One slip of the tongue on my part and the wonderful wizard is banished to the bathroom for all of eternity.

But that's not the book we have our eye on.  Wonderstruck.  That's the one.  It's from the man who wrote, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a beautiful, spellbinding book that has recently been made into a movie by Scorsese, which we are also dying to see.  So many wants.

Wizard's Brew

Charlie was singing this song a few days ago:

I'm gonna stir stir
my wizard's brew

Cook it on the fire
the whole day through

I'm gonna stir stir
my wizard's brew

When I am through
I'll share with you

Presenting Halloween and the Skeleton Pirate

The Halloween Main Street Parade

Charlie, his teacher, his friends, and friends in his class.

Main Street Trick or Treat Stroll

It may have been a washout due to what is being called the October Noreaster but the shops made quite a display of it.  Here are some pictures I took of Halloweeny things, neither pumpkins nor scarecrows, on a stroll down Main Street before the Halloween Parade.

p.s. See the pepper plant in the planter?

Pumpkins on Main Street