The Ball of Fall

This Zachary "Lion" (pronounced Zackawee Wion). Of course the "nickname" was given by a three year old Ethan who was told the name of the baby in Mommy's tummy would be. He thought it was a wonderful name, but still thought that the better name for the baby would be "Ethan", just like his, but when we explained how confusing it would be, he didn't care, but we still named him Zachary!

Our handsome five year old made a dashing Red Power Ranger! One of four I might add, in their small school of less than 200, that made it a very popular costume! No matter, he was "the best one", biggest muscles, all that, you know!






And here I am, the fearless lion tamer! Yes, feeling quite silly in my knee high socks. Zachary and I went to the MOPS Fall Festival at CBC, and had a great time coloring and dancing and watching the clowns. You can't really keep Zach in one place for very long, he's a bit of a "social butterfly" (wonder where he gets that!) and went from table to table visiting and stopped briefly to help the clowns, before going over to the "pumpkin walk" where he preferred to stand in the middle of the circle and spin around, laughing with delight at the spinning room and other kids in costume!

Grace had told her Nana that she wanted to be an angel and just assumed that Nana would take it from there, well, she even told me that Nana had it under control and then I found out that my Mom had no knowledge of Grace's plans for her. So Grace and I went on a hunt to find an angel costume, with no success, because she is a very tall eight year old and there were no 12-14 costumes! So, we put forth our best effort and through Grace's careful instruction of how an angel costume should look, we made our pattern, cut it out and sewed it while she was out of school on Friday and viola! The sweet angel costume she is wearing!