What day is it? Seriously...not kidding...it's been CRAZY busy around here and I blinked and now it's November. What happened to October? October, though, is always the month that flies by because it never fails to be one of the busiest months we have. This year, I have a feeling October thru December is going to end up being a blur.
Since I haven't been blogging much, I'll just make this post even longer and give a little recap of what we've been up to. For the most part for the past few months, Matt has had his nose stuck in a book and we've grown accustomed to him being holed up in the bedroom, but the light at the end of the tunnel FINALLY appeared and he is done taking his comps (short for comprehensive exams)! Yay! Now we're praying that he passed them so he can move on to the final step in this four-year gig. (Even Juliette is praying that "Daddy passes his tests" at every meal time and bed time!) Matt will find out in a week or two if he passed.
I'm in the middle of a busy work season. Last weekend I worked the UL Press booth at the Louisiana Book Festival and tomorrow I'm headed to New Orleans until late Saturday to make sales calls and work our table at the New Orleans Book Fair. I'm looking forward to having my weekends back!
Now, on to the main attraction: Halloween! First up, Juliette's Pumpkin Patch field trip. Comically, Matt and I actually fought over who was going to chaperone it. He wanted to; I wanted to; and I have issues and thought it would look "overbearing" for both of us to go. In the end, I won out. One of the kids' in Juliette's class had both of their parents there, and it didn't seem awkward or weird (or like they were hovering over their child), so I suppose next time we can both go.
This is Juliette's teacher.
Pin the mouth on the skeleton.
Striking a pose like Jessie does on Toy Story.
On Monday, for Halloween, students were allowed to dress up as something they wanted to be when they grow up. Juliette has not one, but FIVE, future professions she would like to have: mommy, teacher, checker-out (her words; i.e. cashier), food-er (i.e. waitress), and doctor. I saw this doctor's vest in the dollar section at Target, and so that is what she went as. Easy, peasy to put together, since doctors usually just wear khakis and whatever top!
And then, of course, on Halloween night, we took her trick-or-treating. The Housing Department at UL provided candy to the students in the student apartments who wanted to "host" the kids from the family housing apartments for trick-or-treating, so we went over there and literally racked up. Not a lot of the kids from family housing went over there, so they were giving Juliette huge handfuls (or two) of candy and it was all the really good stuff. Her bag got so heavy that we had to carry it home for her. She decided, though, that it just wasn't going to be "right" if we didn't go to some actual houses, so we took her over to our old neighborhood and went to a few houses over there.
We've now made the rounds when it comes to the Toy Story characters, however, Juliette says she wants to be Bullseye next year. Since those aren't sold in stores, I think it's safe to say that won't happen. It was good run, though! :)
Since I haven't been blogging much, I'll just make this post even longer and give a little recap of what we've been up to. For the most part for the past few months, Matt has had his nose stuck in a book and we've grown accustomed to him being holed up in the bedroom, but the light at the end of the tunnel FINALLY appeared and he is done taking his comps (short for comprehensive exams)! Yay! Now we're praying that he passed them so he can move on to the final step in this four-year gig. (Even Juliette is praying that "Daddy passes his tests" at every meal time and bed time!) Matt will find out in a week or two if he passed.
I'm in the middle of a busy work season. Last weekend I worked the UL Press booth at the Louisiana Book Festival and tomorrow I'm headed to New Orleans until late Saturday to make sales calls and work our table at the New Orleans Book Fair. I'm looking forward to having my weekends back!
Now, on to the main attraction: Halloween! First up, Juliette's Pumpkin Patch field trip. Comically, Matt and I actually fought over who was going to chaperone it. He wanted to; I wanted to; and I have issues and thought it would look "overbearing" for both of us to go. In the end, I won out. One of the kids' in Juliette's class had both of their parents there, and it didn't seem awkward or weird (or like they were hovering over their child), so I suppose next time we can both go.
This is Juliette's teacher.On Sunday, the fraternities and sororities held a Halloween Carnival for children, so we took Juliette. She played a few games and got some candy, but she ended up having a meltdown about the fact that the older kids were being rough in the bouncy house, so we didn't stay long. (She's not good about sticking up for herself.)
Pin the mouth on the skeleton.
Striking a pose like Jessie does on Toy Story.
On Monday, for Halloween, students were allowed to dress up as something they wanted to be when they grow up. Juliette has not one, but FIVE, future professions she would like to have: mommy, teacher, checker-out (her words; i.e. cashier), food-er (i.e. waitress), and doctor. I saw this doctor's vest in the dollar section at Target, and so that is what she went as. Easy, peasy to put together, since doctors usually just wear khakis and whatever top!
And then, of course, on Halloween night, we took her trick-or-treating. The Housing Department at UL provided candy to the students in the student apartments who wanted to "host" the kids from the family housing apartments for trick-or-treating, so we went over there and literally racked up. Not a lot of the kids from family housing went over there, so they were giving Juliette huge handfuls (or two) of candy and it was all the really good stuff. Her bag got so heavy that we had to carry it home for her. She decided, though, that it just wasn't going to be "right" if we didn't go to some actual houses, so we took her over to our old neighborhood and went to a few houses over there.We've now made the rounds when it comes to the Toy Story characters, however, Juliette says she wants to be Bullseye next year. Since those aren't sold in stores, I think it's safe to say that won't happen. It was good run, though! :)
