Friday - What a Day!

Wow, what a great day we had today. I took off work early and went to Hayden's school to help Hayden's class with pumpkin painting. It was GREAT. The kids are so adorable and were so into painting their pumpkins. Hayden was no different. He wanted to make sure his pumpkin was special. They were all so cute. I just loved how pretty the girls wanted theirs and the boys, of course, just wanted lots of colors (for the most part). There was one ALL black pumpkin that was a little um...interesting.Hayden's pumpkin
Getting ready to start....Working on all the colors......
Some of the classes' pumpkins....

After the pumpkin painting, the kids got to celebrate Good Citizens Day. This is the activity to celebrate good behavior for the nine weeks. They got to have ice cream sundaes (really frozen yogurt but hey, who was telling?) Then they had a sock hop. Let me tell you, you have never seen dancing until you see a cafeteria full of Kindergarteners, First Graders and Second Graders breaking it down. :-) I tried desperately to get a photo of one of Hayden's friends break dancing but never quite got one. :-( It was a great activity and then they got report cards and headed home.

One sweaty puppy......Hayden made all As. We are so proud of him. To celebrate, we went to the Purple Cow for him to have a purple vanilla milkshake with Halloween toppings. Hayden had never been to the Purple Cow so it was just a big treat all in itself. It was very fun.
A thumbs up for the shake....

Isn't it cute?

After the shake, Harold and I took him out to Pinnacle Mountain for him to get to play at the play area. He LOVED it. He was so surprised that we drove out there for him to get to play. It got cool but we went on a nature walk (he was missing Ethan and Scarlett though - a nature walk with just Mom is not as fun as hanging with our best buds) anyway. It was loads of fun and lots of physical activity which is something Hayden misses with the way the school day is now.

Peeking out of the hollowed out tree on our nature walk


So handsome.....When we got home, Hayden wanted to read some of his library books to me before he went to sleep. He got through two books but by the end of the last one there was some big yawning going on - and not just by me. Hayden said his prayers and was in bed early for an early Saturday morning baseball game - the last one of the Fall Ball season.
(I don't have any photos of Hay sleeping because I think I went to sleep before he did!)