New Schools & November....

So I have NOT been able to keep up on NoBloPoMo at ALL.  Made it 1 day.  ONE.  Fail. Epic fail. Beyond Epic Fail.

Also couldn't keep up on my 365 blogging project, clearly.  Although I did make it a lot longer than I ever have before AND I have posted the MOST entries this year than I ever have since I started this blog!  YAY for that!!

I have SO MANY blogs started and just ... not .... finished........ oye.

Seriously - the word draft is pretty popular right now.

Anyway ......  with the move - Kaedyn ended up switching schools.  So we went to his new school to check it out - meet his new teacher and all that.

I loooove this display in the library!

We had Parent Teacher Conferences at Kaedyn's "old" school ...   I have to show off how freaking SMART this kid is.  So the only one that he didn't test above on was the nonsense words -blue circle- (which she said she doesn't expect the kids to even do) ... everything else he EXCELLED at ...  He is doing ABOVE (pink) what is expected.

These are the pictures from the picture day (old school) that I didn't end up getting - didn't know it was picture day or he would have had on a different shirt.  The ones I ordered, well he picked out the shirt that day - not much better, but at least it was what he wanted to wear for his pictures.

First day at the NEW SCHOOL!!!   Nathan we were taking to enroll - and he ended up starting that day too.  Which I totally wasn't prepared for, and I ended up crying on the way home.  Just wasn't prepared.  But we let it all be up to him. It's really important that Nathan is 100% comfortable and on board with all of it.

They go to two different schools.  There was no room at the neighborhood school in the 1st Grade class and there was no room in the 3rd Grade at Kaedyn's school.

 Ready for 2nd Day at School (minus coats and shoes!)

 3rd Day of school, new backpack for Nathan and new shoes for both of them :)

Kaedyn took these selfies of him and Elly - Elly and Kaedyn have a very special relationship ...

My five boys!

We did a weight on all three of the younger boys ...  I didn't believe that Noah was over 100 lbs!  He came back from his physical and I was shocked... so I made him get on the scale at home, and it was the same as it was at the doctors!

Nathan's weight hasn't changed since May really ....

Kaedyn isn't much more than Nathan, but he's been growing in height and not so much in weight.

This was a pretty good book - one of the starter longer books and he read it all by himself :)

Poppy and Elly having some quality time.  Elly loves this show on Baby First called Rainbow Horse and so Poppy had it on one screen and was doing homework on the other.

She is such a highlight in my life, I'm so thankful I get to spend so much time with her :)  And help raise her :)

Calahan and Alana...  kids had DR appt and Alana volunteered to watch Elly while we went to the appointment.   So here is Calahan & Alana with Elly :)   Auntie & Uncle :)

Here are some bonus 3 month old pictures of Elly ....  she has my heart for sure!

NoBloPoMo November 1st: Happy Halloween ....

Okay - so ....  I wanted to make sure that I am participating in NoBloPoMo this year!   So I am making sure that I get back to blogging everyday - and this is the insentive.  Cuz, lets face it.  I love NoBloPoMo!

What is NoBloPoMo?

NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month. It begins on the first day of November and your challenge is to post on your blog every day for 30 days.

So just DO 'ET....

Anyway.  We took Halloween off from moving - it was raining and well, that's not an excuse but it was busy.  Just ........ this last week has been sooooooooo busy.

But I wanted to make sure that I posted Halloween Pictures.  So today's post is yesterday's fun!

 So it's Elly's first Halloween!!  She was supposed to be a Minnie Mouse (crocheted) costume, but that didn't happen (and it's all good).... so last minute I got her a (too big) Ladybug costume.  (Cuz I love the ladybugs!)

So Elly was a Ladybug, and Noah was a Ninja, Nathan was a Pea Shooter (costume hand made by my Mom), and Kaedyn had on a Creeper sweatshirt.

We stopped at the Bug Museum, cuz we love it....

They had out "Uncle Larry" the snake.  The kids wouldn't touch him and I hate snakes... HATE THEM ... and I touched him (for the first time of me ever touching a snake) so the boys wouldn't be afraid and would touch him (although they all had mittens on) ...

Then he saw the "Trick or Treat" on Nathan's bucket (cuz he's non-verbal) and so he says "I'll give you a TRICK!" and he took Nate's bucket.....  put "Uncle Larry" in it....

I asked Nathan what he thought of that... and he goes "It was scary, it freaked me out"  ... it's a good thing I can understand him... ha ha ha

Then he turned Nate's bucket upside down and told him to pick up his bucket...

Nathan went to do it - and then he was like ... um.. .no....

We went around and hit several houses in my (future) Daughter-In-Law's neighborhood....   there were some pretty awesome houses this year!!

I look at this pic (below) and think...   Dude is protecting his junk....

Here is Alana (Cal's fiancee) and the boys.  (I was holding Elly at the time)

And yes, it was raining.  Oye!!  Noah was holding Nathan's bucket to get candy for him, cuz Nathan couldn't take it anymore.... and Kaedyn was taking Elly's up to the door - because I was holding Elly.

They got an awesome haul though!!!

Hope everyone had a FANTASTIC HALLOWEEN!!!!