Pre-Halloween fun

We had a crazy weekend! On Friday was the Jackson Jamboree at Isabel's school. They had a little carnival, dancing, and food. Grandma and Grandpa came up to go with us. The girls had a lot of fun playing the games, while Joshy just enjoyed the little treats they won.

After the games we went down and ate pizza and Ice cream. Isabel was too embarrassed to dance with Grandma, but Joshy and Becca were boogy-in' on down with her. Grandpa even got in on it a little bit.

Saturday morning, we got up bright and early and went to Seward park for the Pumpkin Push 5k that Josh was racing in. He did quite well, we ran all over the park trying to see him at points in the race, but in doing so missed the finish. Oh well, we got some funny pictures in the middle.

How's this for the view from the starting line?

Here he is rounding a bend. Isabel saw him and said, "Mom, Dad's racing a pirate!" Another lady heard her and laughed, "And he's winning!"

He ended up about 30th overall, with some 1300 racers, so he did really well!

And here's where a bird got Becca, lol.

After that, we had a ward Halloween carnival for all the primary kids. They had games, cupcake walk, and all the usual stuff. After that there was trunk or treating. Here are the kids in their costumes.

Joshy wearing Scooby Doo:

Becca as Snow White:

And Isabel as a butterfly:

What NOT to do with BBQ sauce

OK. So don't put a sealed bottle of BBQ sauce in the microwave, everybody! Josh learned this the hard way today :)

He wanted to combine two almost empty bottles into one, and figured he could warm one up and it would pour faster. Fine thinking... nothing wrong with that theory. BUT, he neglected to either loosen or take off the lid. After 20 seconds, I can hear a crazy hissing coming from the microwave (and I was in the Living Room!) He hears it too and quickly yanks the door to the nuker open. The jar has expanded to a crazy size and shape, and it's spitting sauce. He prompty shut it again thinking it was going to explode, and he didn't want to have it blow up on his face.
It stopped spitting, and didn't explode, but might have if he hadn't stopped it's cooking.

But we have a funky new BBQ jar now, lol. It kind of looks like blown glass, all shiny and round. So remember to remove your lids, people!! And just in case you're wondering, it didn't make the sauce run any faster. Take it from Heinz, good things come to those who wait. Squeeze the pickle.

Yum Yum Desitin??

We start to wonder about Joshy's ability to taste! He likes to eat really weird things, like soap, shampoo, and our most recent, desitin.

Just when we think he will think something is really gross, never fails, he'll eat it. But then we are reassured that his tastebuds work, when he turns up his nose at something we WANT him to eat at dinnertime. Silly kid...