No more Halloween and Arya's first 1st Grade field trip

This is the year we decided to no longer celebrate Halloween. Just not interested in all that makes no sense. Why follow a tradition just because everyone else is?

We don't support the blood, horror, and origination of this holiday nor do we find it any fun to go door to door begging for candy. Aside from that we can have costume parties any time of the year.
Telling a kid it's "ok" and no big deal when he gets scared of the fake guts spilled on the side of someone's porch is unmoral even though people think it's just supposed to be for fun.

Arya had a field trip today which out of all places was to the library. I volunteered to drive 3 kids.
Then had to watch them everywhere they went.



It was a truly strange for a library field trip, but I think it was fairly educational and fun. They had story time and a sing-along and they got to get a book of their choice.



Then they learned about gardening in a space behind the library.



After that it was lunch and play time on the playground. Thankfully it went well.



At home we watched movies and had home made cookies and other snacks. Laughing & dancing our own way :)

Wubble Bubble

So every time Arya watches tv, he sees this commercial about this ginormous bubble ball that is the biggest thing since sliced bread! I mean forget "tickle me Elmo" this thing is just crazy.
And he always poked me to order it, but I refused. Then we went to Target the other day and bam, there it is. He just about went berserk! These days he just puts what he wants in the cart (sometimes without me knowing) and I end up buying a bunch of stuff I didn't need! :) But I figured...ya know...why not. Let's just have some fun!



We get home and we open this thing. ha. good luck figuring out how to use it. After an hour and some youtube videos, it was time to get it working. Ya right! it took us quite a while. The inflating part was the toughest. But once it was done, this kid did not want to stop. He played with it the entire day. i am not kidding! Only problem is afterwards, this bubble looks so gross. It basically collects anything it touches. It's a wobbling germ bucket. :) yay me.





Well basically he played with it for a few weeks, hurt himself a few times, then it got super gross and dirty because apparently everything sticks to it, and then we ended up throwing it away.