Election Day

Whether you like the new Pres or not, the kids sure had fun on Election Day. In Liam's class, they read "Duck for President" and then the kids had to "elect" either Duck, Cow, Sheep or Farmer Brown. Duck won by a landslide in his class. The older kids actually got to vote for McCain or Obama based on key issues such as favorite food, favorite sport, favorite music and so on. In our school McCain won, based on the fact that more kids liked barbeque and rock and roll than chili and jazz. If sports had been the only issue, Obama would have won with basketball over fishing. That's what I love about kids....they focus on the important things in life.

More King's Island and a rollercoaster junkie is born

I would have thought that my shy quiet timid little Ryan would not care for rollercoasters...boy was I wrong. He went on everyone he could possibly get on...we're taking the Beast, Stunt Car Coaster and his absolute favorite (and my NOT absolute favorite) the Vortex. Here is a picture of my insane 8 year old going upside down on the Vortex. He liked the rides that went around and around, like the swings here, but the rollercoasters really thrilled him. Liam was very disappointed that he was too small for the coasters, but he found a pit of foam and that seemed to make him happy. Here is a picture of the crew. These are most of Ryan's best friends in the world and it was really great to hang out with them for the day.

King's Island Trip

Last weekend was King's Islands last day of Howl-o-ween so I figured I would take the bigger boys on an outting. It was a great day. Perfect weather, NO lines and the decorations were totally cool. I didn't get pictures of them all, as they were little scenes everywhere, but here are a few examples.

More Halloween

After Paul went to go pass out candy, poor Princess Leah tried to tote Yoda around the neighborhood. He kept stopping after every house to eat the candy he received and soon the two were woefully behind the group. Then the Princess wised up and went and got the landspeeder (or a stroller...it was one of those). That made the evening much better. Yoda and the rest of the Star Wars crew (plus a werewolf) had a blast and made it much further around the neighborhood than ever before. Afterwards, everyone stopped at the forest moon of Endor to cook some hot dogs over a bonfire.

The Crew on Halloween

We were shooting for a Star Wars theme and we got it....mostly. Paul refused to dress up, citing past fiascos as reasons not to put on a costume. (One year he dressed as a vampire to pass out candy but the little kids wouldn't come near him.) Liam really wanted to be a werewolf and it was just so appropriate to Liam's personality that we went with it.....blood on his fangs and all.