Lots of stuff to report – some big, some small, all in pictures:

The mystery object: Logan came home on Thursday afternoon and told me that he was the first one to guess “the mystery object”. His teacher put a paper punch in this small black zipper pouch and then gave the kids three clues to guess what it was. Logan, who was the first to raise his hand with the answer, got to take the pouch home and put something new inside. I’m assuming they keep doing the game until everyone has a chance to take it home and write down clues. Logan chose a fishing bobber.

While Logan was at school on Friday, the younger boys and I had a massive craft day. We did play-doh, then painted with fruit and acrylic paint (Aiden’s idea – which required a trip to the grocery store), painted more with water colors and then later I made Aiden some sidewalk paint out of cornstarch, water and food color (so fun!). Here is our fruit painting (below). It actually doesn’t work well to stamp fruit with paint as opposed to with ink, but I was a bit hesitant to let the boys use my craft stampers so…they just smeared the fruit around a bit. It was still fun!

Aiden ended up painting this cool Alien guy:

Then he did some words with water colors (did I mention that Aiden is now reading some basic hooked on phonics books??!) What he wanted to write was “snake”. He wrote “snac”. I explained how he was phonetically correct and that it was a great job, then I reminded him, “how there are two letters that say the ku sound” so he added the K and ended up with snack. Great writing and sounding out of words either way!

On Sunday, I had to run some errands for school cloths while Brian took Logan and Aiden to urgent care (more on that later). Logan needed a couple new pairs of jeans so we went to Children’s Place….where Brady spied a dog Halloween costume. The costumes were 25% off and I had another 25% off in coupons so I went ahead and bought it (he begged and begged, hugged it and basically refused to let go). HYSTERICAL! It’s meant for an 18-24 month old…that’s the biggest size they make in this particular one, but we just don’t hook it under the legs and it works. Hopefully he won’t change his mind last minute like he did last year!

Oh I wish I could have a video of this picture. He “shakes” his tail and wiggles his booty – tooooo funny!!

This is Logan on the couch after he got back from Urgent Care. Mommy and Daddy had a date night Saturday. While we were gone, Logan thought it would be fun to jump out of the playhouse window. (heart attack!) He couldn’t walk Sunday morning so Brian took him to make sure we weren’t dealing with a break. We highly doubted it since there was minimal swelling, no bruising and he wasn’t dying of pain, but he couldn’t bear weight so we wanted to be sure. The doctor confirmed that it was a sprain and needed what we were already doing: ibuprofen, elevation, ice and a wrap. He missed school on Monday because he still couldn’t walk, but he hobbled there today and it feeling much better.

He got this fun sticker and his very first (non tooth) X-ray.

All of the foot drama eclipsed the super fun and exciting news that Logan lost his first upper tooth (3 lost in total) Sunday morning. It’s hard to see in this picture, but the one on the right is gone.