Halloween Ghosts and Goblins and...Billy the Exterminator!!!

J-man is lookin' awesome dude!!! He had a rockin' good time for trick-or-treat in his Billy the Exterminator costume!! He even stuck out the tongue and threw up the rocker sign because he was feeling it baby!! He loves the show and loved pretending to be Billy. Rock on!! One of our neighbors told him he had some wasps that have been terrorizing his property...ha!ha!

Here is Jarrett playing around as I shopped for costume goodies. If I had a daughter, I guess this is what she would look like...hilarious!!

J-man was a pirate last year. In this picture, he has some weird mouth going on...Aaarrgg Matey!

and another year...

 

Lemonade

Jarrett's first grade class performed Lemonade for a rather large audience of excited parents, families, and friends. Thanks to Mrs. Kauffman for such a great job with a bunch of six year-olds!! To me, it would be like herding cats to get these kids to do anything, but J-man's teachers are just great at what they do. In Lemonade, the kids played many of the characters from the classic fairytale stories with a new twist...how to turn a crumby day into a great day...in other words, how to make lemonade out of lemons. We can all use a reminder on that lesson. J-man was pig #3 of the Three Little Pigs. He said his lines like a professional. In fact, all the kids did a fantastic job and were super cute with their imaginative costumes. This was another successful year for the class program!

Last year, his Kindergarten year, he was a goat in the "Whack-a-Doo Zoo."

King's Island trip...

Jarrett visited King's Island for the first time last weekend with his mama, daddy, and pap. He had a great time. The park was decorated for Halloween, and starting at 7:00, they began the Haunted Hunt...oh boy was it interesting! Fog machines placed all over the park cranked up the creepy factor because we couldn't see more than a few feet in front of us. The playhouses were transformed into haunted houses, creepy music played all over the park, and gory scenes were set up in open spaces. Apparently people love to pay to be scared because, contrary to what we expected, the park was packed!!! The wait for rides averaged 1.5 hours, but it was OK with us because J-man is still too short to ride those "high thrill" rides that were most popular anyway!! But, he loved, loved, loved the rides he got on. He enjoyed the games he played at the midway and he won a stuffed Taz which he renamed "Crush" because he thought it suited it better. He was even super excited about staying in a hotel...mama had to get a pic of J-man with the Shoney Big Boy beside our hotel because it's one of the last of its kind still around...ha!ha!ha! All in all, we a had a SPOOKTACULAR weekend of fun, good food, and good company!!

Funny warp good times...

J-man and mama had many, many belly-aching laughs playin' with mama's new funny warp app on her phone. We tried and tried to get some of Boss, but the app wouldn't recognize his face lol..here are some of the good ones...

Beetle Juice...

J-man and I noticed Boss acting a little funny while he was resting on the couch. He kept wiggling his ears and twitching his body a little. Then, we discovered that he had a rather large beetle right on the end of his nose. At first he didn't likey the beetle, but then he just laid back down and decided he could go ahead and hangy outy I guessy...aaaahhhh good dog!

It used to be a date....now it's a get-together...

J-man spent some fun time with mama Friday night. These fun, little precious nights together used to be our "dates," but this time he let me know that dates are for girlfriends and boyfriends, and we now have "get-togethers" instead. LOL! We went to the cheap $2.00 movies to see Nanny McPhee (little "c" and big "P" as she says several times in the movie....ha!ha!). We both really enjoyed the movie and he looked at me at the end when the children's dad returned from war and was clearly touched by the happy ending...oh, my precious little man. For the price of admission AND concessions, we still paid less than the big, fancy theater in town. Then, we walked to Starbuck's and enjoyed a salted caramel hot chocolate for me and a kid's hot chocolate for J-man (they make them the perfect warm temperature for the little people's mouths). After tossing pennies in the fountain outside and making wishes, we headed home for bed because Jarrett had to get up early for his Saturday morning bowling league...nighty, night!