playing at the mall & the trunk-or-treat

here are some pictures we took this past week. we have an awesome mall about 10 minutes away from our house that has this HUGE play place for kids. there's slides, a little climbing wall, enormous soccer balls & baseballs that you can climb on and go through tunnels. caleb was shy at first but soon warmed up and had a great time.

we went to the ward trunk-or-treat on saturday, it was just carrot top, fantasia, caleb and myself. ernest had been going on a 4 day long temper tantrum and lost the privilege to go so ben stayed home with him. the party was mainly designed for young kids. so picture an enormous redhead dressed up as a "zombie," sticking his face in a bowl full of apples. i was tempted to tell the people in the line behind him just to turn around and go to one of the other activities. i just don't think he brushes his teeth that often. so i'm sure his teeth are carrying some type of contagious virus, such as the bird flu or ebola. i would not even be surprised.

we had a good time anyway, caleb was more interested in handing out the candy then in actually receiving some. i bet if they were handing out cucumbers or apples it would have been a different story. he dressed up as a monkey, he is obsessed with curious george and anytime he looked in the mirror he would yell, "look at that! it's georgie porgie!" that's his nickname for curious george, i don't know where he got it from.

the kids are out of school today. you have no idea the amount of disappointment i felt when i heard that it was a "teacher-prep day." WHAT?? who do these teachers think they are?? don't they know the amount of suffering they put us through when they schedule days off? do your "prep" at home on a sunday! ok enough venting.