Trip to the Dallas zoo

National Candy Day aka Halloween 2009

I don't usually do Hween with D. In the past, he has not been allowed to dress up, even though we did usually do a fall festival. This year, as an extension of Red Ribbon week at school, I let him dress up. We also ended up going to the Firewheel Fall Festival this evening. As part of that, the stores at the mall did TorTing, so I compromised on my usual feelings and let D partake in the goodies. I'm not sure if we'll ever do "true" TorTing, but it was fun.

Here's the little pirate boy.

"Yo ho ho and a bottle of...milk!"

Red Ribbon Week

This past week at D's school was Red Ribbon Week, encouraging kids to be drug free. As part of that, each day was a dressup day.

On Monday, it was dress head to toe in red. So aside from red clothes, I dyed his hair red. Little Dennis Rodman in training.

Tuesday and Wednesday were kind of iffy days so I didn't get pics of those.

Thursday was mismatched day.

And Friday. The piece de resistance! He got to dress up as a storybook character. So, I put together a "frog prince" costume. He was adorable!!!

D's EEG Night

D and I had to stay up all night long so that he would be VERY sleep deprived for his EEG. First, we hit up IHOP with some friends of ours, then there was a walmart trip. After that we stopped for a midnite slurpee, and then, we went bowling! Here are some pics from our night and his EEG.

Yay for midnite slurpees!

D's first bowling trip

Fanning his head from the air vent...lol

So close yet so far

Getting hooked up to the nodes

All hooked up, bandaged up, and ready to SLEEP for a bit so they can get a good sleep reading

NOCC 5K

D and I participated in the NOCC 5K, second year in a row. We started it last year to support my friend and fellow DAM mom, Helen, who's sister is a 2 year survivor. We had a great time!

Our 5K group

D and I at the Finish Line

Plano Balloon Festival

D and I wanted some cheap entertainment this evening, so we decided to go watch the balloons at the Plano Balloon Festival. I grabbed us some dinner on the way to get D so we wouldn't be tempted to go IN the festival for it. And I had a voucher for free parking at a church near the field which turned out to be an awesome view! It had been raining today and was fairly windy so they didn't launch the balloons, but they did still have the glow (where they blow up all the hot air balloons and light em up once it gets dark in tune to music). Since we could hear the band from our vantage point, we just hung out in the back of my vehicle. D danced around to the music some and was quite enthralled at the balloons.

D in the back finishing up some dinner

Our view of the balloons

My little poser, D's only complaint was that the "penguin balloon" would not turn around!

Casey's Birthday!

Happy birthday, Casey!! We were invited to celebrate with her and family this evening at Panda's Super Buffet, and then us girls (and D) hit up the movie I Can Do Bad All By Myself. We had such a fun evening!!! Here are some pics from dinner...thanks for letting us join you guys, Casey!

Casey and her MIL

Cake!

Right after blowing out the candle

The waitresses singing to Casey

Balloon!

What's this??? Casey's gift from Mike, what is it???

A new camera!

Oooohhh pretty!

Highlights of our weekend

Two things I wanted to share pics of from this busy weekend (aside from the mass of lake pictures in the previous post).

On Saturday evening, D and I surprised Beth with a flower from her out of town DH (I had a lot of fun plotting that one), and some Braums ice cream. I really enjoyed (after putting D to bed over there) hanging out with her and Aubrey watching a movie and chatting. This picture is how we did it. I had D sit on her porch with the flower in his lap, and then I texted her to check her porch. lol It was awesome, love ya, Beth!



And then, Labor Day! We slept in today for once, rather than get up and walk. And then Da Crew + 1 and two kids all met up at Red, Hot and Blue for some yummy BBQ! I can NOT believe that my friend will have her BABY in less than 2 weeks!!! I'm so excited for her! D was quite enthralled with touching her belly, it was cute!! So I had to take a pic of it, and yes, this was at Ben and Jerrys. lol