A Halloween Story By Caleb

Night Of The Deadly Bat

One night I went to the Forest. I was afraid that a deadly bat would suck my blood. I was chattering in panic. Then I heard a shriek of the vampire bat. I was afraid. Very afraid. My legs began to tremble. The skreech of the vampire bat was loud and louder. There it was - the vampire bat! I watched in terror as the vampire bat was opening his big deadly fangs. I ran as fast as I could but then I tripped over a log. I began to scream but then I saw the end of the road and the end of the Forest. I got up and looked back. The bat was gaining. I ran and ran until I reached the end of the forest. I ran all the way to my house.

This is the first story that Caleb has written. It was an assignment at school.

Addition To My Sewing Center!

Do you remember how last year Dan remodeled a room in our basement into my sewing center for our 10 year anniversary? That is the bottom picture you see. In the past couple of weeks he built me a new wall unit for storage and put it up the other night. That is what you see in the top picture. Isn't it awesome? I told him that when I married him I had no idea I was marrying such a handy man! I love it and can't wait to get busy with my sewing.

All Sorts Of Mazes......

Last weekend we took the boys on a fall adventure. A local nursery had the setup you see above with all sorts of mazes. There was a 3-D straw bale maze the boys crawled through. It made me a little claustrophobic and with my back acting up I decided not to crawl and climb through it. The had a straw bale maze, sky maze and corn maze too. The corn maze was a little trashed so I didn't take any pictures of it. They also have a haunted maze set up for the night time, but we didn't stay for that one. The boys had a blast and then later that night when we got Oliver to bed, Caleb, Elton and I watched the original "Wizard Of Oz". They had never seen it so it was fun to watch with them and they loved it!

School Days...

It has been hard for Oliver to adjust with both Caleb and Elton gone for school all day. However, you can see he has 2 new best friends. He loves hanging out and playing with the dogs while I get some sewing done.

Elton is doing great in all day Kindergarten and doesn't seem tired at all when we pick him up. He loves having show and tell on Fridays and just had a field trip to the Pumpking Patch on Friday. He is learning how to read and write his letters in lower case after focusing on upper case letters last year.

Caleb is loving his new school and has made a couple of new friends. He likes taking the bus to Boys & Girls Club on the days I work and seems to be handling the new responsibility well. We did however get him a "Firefly" phone in case of emergency so he can call us. It is probably for my peace of mind more than anything and so far he hasn't even had to use it. He is doing well with his school work getting A's and yesterday he brought his IRI reading results home. He is reading 174 words per minute!