Playing Catch Up

This past week has been SO fun and SO busy. Hawkins is in the last quarter of his first year and it all seems like it's gone by so fast! I just want to freeze time and live in every moment for eternity (the good ones at least- and maybe even some of the bad ones). This is what we've been up to:

Weekend- Scott and I went to the UofL game against Pittsburgh. We were hoping for a close exciting game and we got one! It was, of course, because UofL kept screwing up their leads and letting Pitt score, but we won in the end. Nosebleed seats wouldn't quite describe where we sat. Thank goodness there isn't a bad seat in the Cardinal stadium because we were literally in THE very last, highest row. Actually, our seats were a little better than that, but we had friends in the section above us and so chose to sit with them. It was our first Saturday together without the kid in a while and it felt great to get out there among the throngs of people and represent a couple in love instead of parents.

Saturday evening, I donned a mullet wig and what I thought a construction worker might wear and went to a Halloween party. It was not a long night, though, because I knew I had to take care of Hawkins early the next morning. It was great to sit back and relax and listen to Molly tell stories from college, though. Our friend LeeAnne also has a pretty good story about telling Britney Spears off eight years ago. Apparently, a six year old little girl, dressed completely in Spears garb and holding one of her cds approached and Britney Spears gave the little girl an eat shit look, turned up her nose and kept walking. Seeing this ensue, LeeAnn goes, "You are a bitch, Britney Spears! This little girl made you!" Damn!

Halloween Eve- Carved pumpkins at Molly's mom's house. This was fun, but different from last year. Hawkins is very into getting around right now and so had to be watched constantly. Gone are the days when Scott and I can sit leisurely around trying to decide what kind of pumpkin face we want. We had to take turns and get down to business when we had the chance. I had been thinking about what kind of face I wanted for a few days (I prefer grumpy pumpkins). Hawkins was so cute with the dogs, though. He really loves animals and wasn't afraid of The Dude either who is a 110 lb. blood hound. The Dude sat patiently near, while Hawkins proceeded to stretch his jowls, poke him in the eyes, and enact all sorts of other abuses. The Dude just took it. He's such a sweetie. Elly was great, too, jumping up to lick Hawkins in the face with caused him to giggle (which is like the most perfect sound that exists).

Halloween- Scott and I rushed home like wild gypsies, picked up the kid, ran to the store and got candles for the pumpkins and candy to give out. Then we threw Hawkins into his chicken suit and got out there on the street so that he could get some good trick or treating done before his usual post afternoon nap. He was kind of out of it, and pretty disgruntled by the costume. He eventually resigned himself to the outfit, but not without a fight. It was fun, although, I will admit that I was more into it than Hawkins or Scott (as you can see from the pictures- Whatever!). Scott's the one who got all the candy, too! Don't know what the heck he was complaining about. So, once we got home, I just sat on the porch steps with the candy bowl watching the action. The kids were hilarious- so excited to be dressed up and getting candy. What is it about Halloween that is so much fun to kids? Seriously, though, there was some visable electric currents moving through these children- sheer delight, total abandon, absolute energy- Fabulous! One kid was just running. He couldn't stop. Just running in his ninja turtle outfit (are they back?)down the sidewalk with his mom and older sister sort of shrugging along behind him. It was so fun to watch. Then I had to go in and give Hawkins a bath. Scott won't answer the door for trick or treaters because it makes him nervous. I answer the door on Halloween and Scott answers the door every other day of the year. That's our deal. So, I left our big witch's cauldron full of candy on the front porch with a note saying, "take a handful." Well, I went out to retrieve the candy bowl half an hour later and it was upside down in the bushes. I guess someone had gotten mad that there was no candy left and so threw it in a fit of rage. Oh well. At least we got rid of all our candy! It was a better turnout than last year.

The past week, we've just been doing Have To's and not many fun things. Not cool. The semester is winding down and so I've got a lot of school work due in the next month.