A Week Full of Adventures

I know that I have dropped off the face of the earth this last week, but we have had one thing after another! To start off, last Thursday both my husband and I fell ill to this stomach bug going around. We basically spent 48 hours in nothing but pure maintenance mode. The boys got to watch more tv than ever before in 48 hours! It seems a little unfair that we would both be stricken at the same time. At least the boys never caught the thing!

We then had a fun, but busy weekend. First was a pumpkin decorating party on Saturday across town and Sunday was Brennan's baseball - we only have one more game this season! We also spent the weekend gathering the last of the Halloween costumes and candy for Tuesday. We tried to go get a big pumpkin for carving, but the church pumpkin patch that we usually attend was sold out this year (I had heard that the pumpkin crop wasn't that great). Luckily Philip wasn't that interested in decorating his smaller pumpkin at the party, so we had that one for carving.

Monday morning we found out that Granddad would be in town on Tuesday and Wednesday - always exciting to have Oklahoma family visit! Monday afternoon was spent cleaning in anticipation. Monday evening, as we waited for Granddad, my husband discovered a water leak in the corner of our bedroom. He opened the service door for the boys bathtub (which sits on the shared wall in our bedroom) and found a leak, with standing water, a little rotting drywall, and some mold. We also found ants on the bookshelf of that wall that were eating away at the bookshelf. This necessitated a call to a bug guy, plumber, and mold specialist. We have now found the leak and are currently drying out the area. The ants appear to be isolated to the bookshelf and once we get the water out we will be able to tell the extent of the mold, though it doesn't appear to be too bad at this time.

And yesterday was all of the Halloween festivities. We got our schoolwork out of the way and had some great crafts. We got to spend the day playing with Granddad, who also held down the fort while we all six got to go trick or treating to the neighbors. We carved out our pumpkin and watched "It's a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". And we look forward to our planned festivities for All Saints today.

And yes, I am up at 3AM! It appears that the sugar high has somehow filtered down to Jonathan (although he obviously hasn't eaten any candy, being 4 months old!). He is now sitting with me, quite happily I might add, as we type away this recount of the past week. I wish that I had a picture of him to post - munching away on his little fist as he sits on my lap being very content with life! So we seem to have survived it all...that's what matters, anyway!