What a week — between Halloween, making travel plans and all the normal kid and pet care, I am wiped out. I blinked and it’s almost a week into November. At least all hotels have been reserved, intra-Turkey plane flights have been booked, and my updated guidebook should be in my hands tomorrow so I can brainstorm another list of must-sees for this trip. Of course of all the guidebooks that I have, the only one I couldn’t find is the one for Turkey.
Morocco, Tunisia, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Middle East (big book), and all the dialect phrasebooks for the different regions? Yep, got them. But Turkey went AWOL. After digging through 6 boxes of books, I finally gave up and just ordered a new one.
Halloween: Too much candy, but lots of fun anyway. I felt like Josh and I should get an award, a trophy, or eternal gratitude after seeing the Halloween costumes that we put together for Carter and Caleb.
I knit Green Arrow’s (a comic book character) hood and created the vest out of a sweatshirt. Josh was responsible for the genius bow, arrow, and arrow holder thing — and they actually shoot.
I created Hawkeye’s shirt (character from The Avengers) out of two T-shirts and a too-small vest from the suit he wore to Wendy’s wedding. Josh again gets credit for all shooting paraphernalia.
All the work on this costume was done by some poor child laboring in a sweatshop in China.
They had a huge Trick or Treat event on base and various units decorated tents and handed out candy. Calvin didn’t have a costume because he was helping hand out candy.
She skipped the scary themed tents
The boys entered the costume contest, but the real prize is the bow and arrow that they get to keep after the holiday is over.
More Halloween fun — visiting Caleb at his class for a party.
One more thing of note from this week: Our cat is crazy. (In a good way)
We already knew that when we take showers he likes to sit on the side of the tub and play in the spray, but I did not expect him to hop in the tub with me when I take a bath. I started the water running and then went to check on the kids before getting in. I came back to find him walking around in the water, playing in the current. He is one of a kind.
