Date Day and Halloween Party

Last Thurs. was Date Day. Lee got a dollar in the bag of goodies that Grandma Jenny & Grandpa Don sent in the mail along with 2 dollars from the tooth fairy that he wanted to spend. To make it fun I decided to take him to one of my favorite toy stores - Snapdoodle Toys in Bothell. He has never been inside that one so he was blown away. It was hard to find a toy he wanted for 3 dollars but he enjoyed looking around and finally found some slinky's he liked. He had enough money for 2 so he wanted to get one for me. I told him that his thought was sweet but that I probably wouldn't play with it as much as a kid would so he picked out one to give to Rylan. He went up to the counter to pay and adorably put the money on the counter before handing the clerk the toys to ring them up. I explained that we didn't know how much money to give to her until she told us how much the total was. Then he said the cutest thing. He said, "Hi this is my Stepmom but I like to call her Mom....and sometimes Paige because that seems like a sweet name and it's hers!" Then we headed over to lions den coffee shop...I got him a blueberry greek yogurt and vanilla steamed milk to tie him over until dinner time and we learned how to play Link-O together. Then we made up a game with the slinky's. One person would stretch their slinky like a blockade and then compress it back down and the other person would try to roll their slinky through to the other side when there was an opening. He giggled pretty hard at that game and it was surprisingly pretty challenging for both of us!

Michael took Rylan to Starbucks they played store with the items that were already on the table. If there were any words or numbers on the items that is how they decided how much they costed and they sold and bought from each other as well as played some spiderman uno!

Friday was Halloween! And I was lucky enough to come help with their Halloween Party at school! Last minute I decided to make a costume and came up with an idea I am pretty proud of myself for. I was a spelling bee! I colored white duct tape with a yellow chalk marker for my stripes and cut out all the letters in Rylan and Lee's names to add the spelling aspect as well as took apart a headband and twisted on some pipe cleaners with paper circles attached to the tops for antennaes! All 4 classes in first grade had a party together. First they watched all the older kids walk their costumes past in a parade and then the kids were put into 4 groups and moved from classroom to classroom for different activites in each. I helped set up the cup cake decorating classroom, the slime making classroom and the classroom learning about what happens to certain things when they are put into water. My favorite was the slime making so I stayed in that class the majority of the time helping my friend randi who was running it dressed as a mad scientist.
I didn't have a chance to tell the boys what I would be dressed up as (because I didn't know ahead of time) so they were really shocked and delighted to see that I made it and that their names were included!

 Rylan thought the slime was really gross you might notice by his facial expressions ;) 

Lola has the blonde hair. At one point Lee told us he loves her hehe

Rylan was the only Mario this year! Nicholas said that he wants to be a Ninja next year because he liked Lee's costume so much. Lee said he is going to be a ghost next year. Most of the older kids made their own Mine Craft costumes out of boxes.

 Lee insisted on a picture of this ninja move. He stayed in that position for a good minute and a half to make sure I got the shot! haha

I got so many of these cute pictures of them dressed up. Love these kids sooo much! <3

 They were so excited to get Halloween presents in the mail from Grandma Jenny and Grandpa Don! Here they are using the monster magnet making kits that were included.

 These silly mouths were also in the big bags of candy and gifts they got!

Here are some of the finished monster magnets. They also each got a card with a dollar in it!

Another sweet thing that Lee said the other day was that he misses dad in the morning and wishes he could come take him to school everyday too and that he misses him on Wed which is a short day when he can't come to pick him up and it is just me. He said it so out of the blue ....it was just heart melting.

Lee has been really into drawing slugs lately. It's because of a show he watches at his moms house called Slugterra so he draws pictures of all these different types of slugs that apparently have different special skills and powers...he also likes to draw picture of mario characters and cut them out as well as nun (spell?) chucks and ninja masks. Rylan really likes to make up games where he draws lots of numbers and letters and circles them. He also likes to write down things to remember and he likes to play school.. Sometimes both boys play school together. They make up homework and pretend it is time to go to music class or recess ect...

I can't remember if I blogged this cute comment Rylan made the other day. Michael was talking to me about how he didn't get to take a lunch at work and Rylan chimed in saying "So you get a lunch at work just like we do at school? Cool!"

On Friday when I was driving Rylan over to be with his dad for Halloween weekend. I told him as usual that I will miss him so much but that it makes me happy that he will be having fun with his dad. Rylan said, " Oh ya! That is what I feel like about Lee! I miss him so much but I am happy he is at his Mom's house because I know he likes it so much over there"