Pumpkin Patch & NO Trick or Treating

Nothing around Halloween seemed to work out right for us this year (or maybe just how we thought). With Todd's surgery we didn't want to chance any hayrides or a lot of walking so we went to the same pumpkin patch as we did last year to get our pumpkins. I am not that upset, it is set up very cute in a church parking lot and they always have really good pumpkins. We carved them into Cinderella and Mickey Mouse per the kiddos request and Todd did a great job on the actual carving part. Alyssa helped clean them out as Aiden kept his distance from the pumpkin goo...he is pretty backwards when it come to "icky" stuff. Then on Thursday before Halloween Alyssa came down with the stomach flu :( As most of you know she has a condition that makes her body dehydrate at a fairly quick rate. So on went the stress factors for Todd and I as we took turns sitting with her upstairs while the other played with Aiden downstairs (in the disinfected part of the house :) We thought we were in the clear Friday afternoon before she started getting sick again. I called her Doctor to see if he could call in something for her and he said there was nothing, so we waited. By 10:30 pm it was apparent she was going to need some help getting over this as her eyes were starting to sink in. So Mom and I took her to the ER (Todd stayed home with Aiden). WOW, ER on a Friday night...not recommended...the crazies are out. We were moved into a trauma room behind closed doors after the police escorted patient next to us screamed the worst curse words at the top of her lungs for a while. At one point I looked at mom and she was checking out the labels on the drawers in our area...she said she was looking for a scalpel, just in case...can't say I blamed her. At this point I was glad she offered right away to join me in my trip I had planned to make myself. We saw some more police escorted patients on our way out. Anyways, back to my story, they were able to give her an oral disintegrating pill for the nausea and on try 2 after the first came immediately back up we were able to go home with a prescription for it. Makes me wonder if we could have avoided the whole ER scene if her Doc was willing to call something in. She still had a rough Halloween with round 3 of the bug but is finally back to normal. So, Aiden got in his costume for about 3 minutes and one day this week we will dress them all up and take them to Maw Maw and Paw Paw's (and some neighbor friends) so they can Trick or Treat! Sorry for the loooong post but that is a summary of Halloween for you!

Picking out pumpkins.

Getting ready to carve.

Finished products!

Our little frog.

He was debating a little walk.

Trying to climb the stairs was quite humorous :)

I will post our after Halloween shots when we get to it this week.

Boredom

As you know Todd was off for 3 weeks after his surgery. Apparently the house (um, kids) needed some new things to do during that time. So here is a look at some new tricks we learned. By the way Todd is back to work as of this past Monday and doing great surgery-wise. He started day shift when he went back (due to the large amount of layoffs recently, they redistributed people throughout the plant). This is a good and bad deal...but without boring you, I will say from a wife standpoint that I like it better as of right now (may change my mind slightly with the first paycheck, but overall Mommy is happy :)
Okay, so here is Aiden's newest trick:

Almost got it...

Phew, that took some work....it is also now an off limits trick!

Then one day I was in the other room and Todd yelled for me to come and sit by the fire with them. As I turned the corner he said Alyssa was roasting marshmallows (above).

Over the fire. Hey, It is free unlike our gas fireplace :)

Moments later she dove in the...

Crystal blue water for a swim! They also went fishing that morning. At least they were using their imaginations while sitting on the couch. I love my family!!