October 5th
Brent turned 29! We celebrated by having potpies and a scrumptious chocolate lava cake. And the kids loved giving him presents, ok I loved giving him presents too:) Yeah for Brent!
One of my violin students let me pick a bunch of pears off of their D’AnJou tree this year. Did you know that pears do not ripen on the tree? They have to be put in cold storage for 7-10 days and then ripened in order not to get mushy in the center. Lucky for me I have a cold storage room! Since this variety of pears isn’t the best for canning I tried something new: pearsauce! Basically applesauce but with pears. Eden helped me mash them all up and put them in bottles and the result were these beautiful jars full of pearsauce. It is absolutely delicious. Especially on warm zucchini bread for breakfast.
October 13th
Eden’s preschool had a fieldtrip to the Fire station. We watched the retro Donald Duck movie about fire safety, watched the fireman put on all of his gear, talked about how to get out of the house safely, and most importantly, looked at the fire trucks. Eden wasn’t too impressed, it was all kind of loud, and not quite her thing. But oh man, Ryan was in heaven. I now understand a little bit better why all men are obsessed with trucks and trains and tractors. They’re just born that way. Ryan cried when we had to leave. He wanted to stay forever.
The last half of the month was spent battling the stomach flu and colds, so not a lot happened. Brent finished his second to last class (I’m not counting down at all), and the weather has been beautiful.
October 28th
Eden’s preschool gave a little program for the parents and all the kids got to dress up in their Halloween costumes and sing their songs and talk about the letters. Eden was so cute in her little bunny costume! I told her she could hop around and she looked at me and said with sad little eyes, “Mommy, I just don’t feel like hopping right now, maybe later.”
During the program she sang extra loud, so we could hear her. Apparently since we were on the back row two feet away it was hard to hear. Funny girl.
Havin’ fun in his beloved train jammies.
