Fall Festival 2008.....And Beyond!

Two weekends ago, we had the annual Fall Festival across the street again this year. This time, we went with some folks from the neighborhood. They had a lot more to do this year. There was a whole section devoted to free games for the kids, including a little carnival-like "use-the-hammer-to-ring-the-bell" which Lochlain just HAD to try. I was too busy wrangling Seanie to get a picture, but suffice to say Lochules did not ring the bell. The boys did get to pick pumpkins and color them for the front porch ("and I helped") - as seen here:

From there, we moseyed on down the hill to the bounce hut for the kids. The netting inside made it difficult to get pictures of the boys - plus, Seanie spent most of the time trying to climb the inflatable staircase to go down the slide. Beanie challenged one of our neighbors to a race through the obstacle course setup. I thought she had pretty much lost almost right out of the starting gate as she couldn't get over the first hump, but she caught up on the rock-climb part and almost ended up winning. Her herculean effort seemed to wipe her out for the rest of the day.

After that, we went to the new playground that had been setup on that side of the park, where Seanie enjoyed the swings:

Then the boys rolled down the hill to where we got see the following:

Roll, Roll, Roll Down the Hill


Return of the Cow!

Hayride!

It was a tiring day.


Seanie has two new things that he does - when he puts something down, he lets you know that the object is going "RRRIIIIIGGGHT Hea." His second thing is he now says "Because". I make it my mission in life now to ask him "why" questions just to hear him say it. Lochlain's new thing is how he answers me when I ask him if understands me when I lecture him when he's in trouble. He will now sometimes reply with a quick "Yessir!" and give me a salute. The first time he did it, he unknowingly got major-ly out of trouble with me. Lochlain has also lately cultivated a great interest in superheroes, much to his Daddy's delight. I cannot tell you how many times we have watched the 16 episodes of Challenge of the Superfriends...but they were enough so that when Lochlain was a good boy and earned a reward for his behavior, he went and picked out a new superhero-related DVD. Target was all out of other Superfriends videos, but they did have a compliation of old 60's Filmation cartoons of DC characters. Loch's favorite are the Teen Titans - but of course now he peppers his conversation with 60's hipster slang ("dig it, daddio")......

Loch's Current Favorite

This past weekend, Bean went away for Homecoming at her collegiate alma mater Wesley College, leaving me with the boys. But we still managed to keep busy and have fun, thanks to a birthday party on Saturday and a Scooby-Doo movie marathon on Sunday. I would've taken pictures of all the fun we had while Mommy was gone, but if there was any evidence of the hijinx that ensued, I might've been the Meagher boy who got in trouble with Mommy.