Fall is clearly my favorite time of year. It gets chilly, but not too cold. The leaves change. There is a lot of outdoors things to do. It has Sam's and my birthday in it, Halloween (not a huge fan but it's fun) and Thanksgiving. Our fall has been great we traveled to Asheville for fun, Pawley's for Thanksgiving and otherwise, just stuck around here. Sam's birthday was scheduled to be at a park (nice and easy, little clean-up or chaos) around 4:00. It was a great day, but it started raining at 3:36 - seriously, when does that happen. We had it our house instead which was fine, the kids stayed in the basement and didn't get up to too much mischief. I iced the cake again, this time Sam branched out - it wasn't Thomas, it was Gordon - makes sense I guess Gordon is number 4. If the stay at home mom thing doesn't work out. Clearly I should go be an artist on the island of Sodor.
He had a great day, I wonder if it'll be a train theme next year.
Halloween was hysterical. Sam was a SWAT team police officer and Oliver was a tiger. They fully understood about the candy this year and they took it all very seriously and got heaps of candy.
Enter Peter Pan - Sam is now Peter Pan. It all started with a book on tape that I had had for ages and he never wanted to listen to. Then he wanted to hear it all the time. Then came the movie and last but not least, the Peter Pan costume.
So, I am Wendy, Joel - John, Oliver - Michael. If he comes across a woman she is Tinkerbell and if it's a man, that person is usually Captain James Hook. He flies to Neverland (the top of the fort in the back yard) it's great but as you can see, even Peter Pan needs a rest sometimes.
We headed down to Pawleys for Thanksgiving. The whole Lavelle clan was there and we had great weather and the cousins got along for the most part. Liliana and Oliver had some tuffs, but other than that
