6th Grade Handprint

Better late than never, right? Usually Ledger makes a hand print on his board before the first day of school, but this year we weren't on top of it and finally went to buy a new paint color a week after the school year started. And now finally we actually brought the board up to put the print on it!

Our boy is definitely growing up because he didn't want to get messy this year. In years past, pulling out the paint and letting him put his hand in it was an invitation to make a huge mess (which always annoyed Diana...). After putting his hand in it he used to then put paint on his face, arms, chest, etc. and run around laughing until we finally threw him in the bath (which then left a huge colored ring on the tub. Hmmm, maybe that's why Diana always hated it?). This year he just wanted to do the handprint and wash it off. This year he picked dark blue as his color. After the handprint, we stood the board up and did our annual measuring of how tall he is now. It's fun to see all the previous heights and see just how big he's gotten. He's grown about two inches a year for the past three or four years- wow!

Halloween Prep

An important event every year: picking out the perfect costume for Halloween. Some years we think about it early enough that we are able to get a really cool costume, and other years we forget until late October and all the good stuff is already sold out. This year we were on top of it and Ledger decided that he wanted to get the costume of a character from the game Fall Guy. Granted, he's never played the game before in his life, but the costume was just so darn cute that he picked it anyway!

As soon as it arrived he wanted to try it on. He got in the thing, turned on the portable fan, and the cuteness inflated, much to our delight! Diana and I kept laughing at how funny and cute it looked. Ledger, of course, played it up, getting us to laugh more and more. He spent the next hour or so wandering around the house in the costume playing and dancing around.

It's going to be a great Halloween this year, I can already tell!

Warm Laundry

It's laundry day, and it's time to do the bed sheets. Ledger helped bring them down to the basement and throw them in the washer. We spent a bit of time tidying up and cleaning the house. He was kind of annoyed that he couldn't lay in bed and play on his padpad, but he also wouldn't let me put any of his other sheets on the bed. He loves his Dogman sheets and was willing to wait for them. When the dryer was done, I brought them up and told him I needed a little help putting them on the bed, he begrudgingly got off the couch to help, but got really excited when he realized that the sheets in the basket were still warm from the dryer! He pulled them out and wrapped himself in cozy warm sheets- he was so delighted and happy that I had to take a picture! So cute! We eventually put the sheets on and he hopped right in bed to snuggle in the warmth!