Oh no....

29 Oct 2010

Here's a funny dialog that I just made up and that has no basis whatsoever in reality:

Teacher: Student A, how many did you get right on the quiz?

Student A: What?

Teacher: How many did you get right?

Student A: Oh, um, I missed 2.

Teacher: Yeah, but how many did you get right, out of 5?

Student A: Oh, um, 3?

Teacher: Okay 3. Student B, how many did you get right?

Student B: 100.

Teacher: A 100? But there were only 5 possible on the quiz. How many did you get right out of 5?

Student B: Oh sorry - 5.

Teacher: Thanks. Okay. Student C, how many did you get right?

Student C: Miss, am I passing your class?

Teacher: I'll look that up in a minute. How many did you get right on your quiz?

Student C: I got 2 right. Is that passing?

Teacher: No.

Student C: What percent is that?

Teacher: You should know that. It's 40%. All you have to do is divide 2 by 5. Remember, we did that last week.

Student C: I don't get that. I don't know how to divide 2 by 5.

Teacher [dryly]: That's why you only got a 2 out of 5.

Student C: Can I go to the bathroom?

That's the end. The teacher's head exploded.

Jack-O-Lanterns

18 Oct 2010

I give up on trying to get both boys to smile AND look at the camera at the same time. This is the best I could do.

That's me and the boys carving pumpkins in the background. The big bubble-bowl in the foreground is part of Jared's Halloween Dry Ice Science Lab extravaganza.
This is Tyler's pumpkin. He wants to make sure that everyone knows that it just had a lobotomy (he recently learned that word from Calvin and Hobbes).
This is Derek's pumpkin. It's a happy vampy. The night shots.

Pump-kin bar-mitzvah, spooky scary.

2010 Pumpkin Patch

15 Oct 2010

Last Saturday we decided to partake in some family fun and make a trip to the local pumpkin patch. Since our car only has 5 seats and we all agreed that the kids should be buckled in, Grandma insisted that she be the one to ride in the hatch-back cargo area. It wasn't big enough for her, but she didn't complain...much. It also turned out that the local pumpkin patch was exceptionally UN-local. It took us about an hour and a half to get there. Grandma's knees have yet to fully recover. Anyway, we got there in one piece and in fairly good spirits.

Our first activity was scarecrow building. We were supposed to stuff the clothes with the hay. Derek pulled out one handful, got poked with a sticker, and then left the rest of the job to me and Jared.
Grandma and Tyler were on the other end setting the scarecrow up on the stand.
Tyler was adamant that our scarecrow have a head so we made one out of a t-shirt. Grandma made his eyes out of balls of weeds from the grass. Tyler was so proud.
A scenic pond.

The pumpkin patch was actually not a pumpkin patch at all. They had lots of pumpkins there but they were all just shipped in and piled up on the lawn. The farm was actually an apple orchard. They grow cute little sweet Texas apples and sell them to HEB stores. We got some at the HEB later in the week and they were really really good. They are super fresh and don't have any preservatives so you have to keep them in the fridge, but it's worth it.

Here is part of a tour where the orchard owner (in the background) is showing us how they sort and grade the apples.

(Derek got that football hat from a lady that grabbed it in a claw machine arcade game at the Walmart. Tyler was really jealous.)

At the petting zoo we saw all kinds of farm animals. Tyler got to hold the new baby chick - it was only a week old.

Holly cornered an old turkey and poked it a lot.

Derek and Holly were super excited to go into this tee-pee. Tyler saw it and said, "It's probably just big and empty inside." This is him telling me that he was right.

Here is Holly.

Taking a break on the pumpkin stairs after Grandma got a little tipsy on 'Pumpkin Juice.'

The hay maze. Um...it wasn't really a maze. It was more like a hay corral with hay obstacles. Tyler walked in the entrance and out the exit in about 10 seconds. Derek ran around inside for at least 15 minutes pretending that he couldn't figure out where to go.

Yay for family fun!!

Haunted Cooper House

11 Oct 2010

Every year we like to get a couple new Halloween decorations. When I was a kid the paper cut out Halloween decorations that we put on the front window were almost as (if not more) exciting than the Christmas tree. So, I like to make a big deal of the decorations. We've got almost everything hung up inside (photos to come) and pumpkins from the Pumpkin Patch ready to carve (more photos to come) but we didn't really have anything on the outside of the house. I thought that the little alcove on our second floor would make a perfect haunted skeleton perch so I hijacked the car on the way home from work today and took Jared to the Spirit of Halloween store. We pooled all of our Halloween budget and came up with this. We thought it looked pretty good.

Later on it turned into this. We were suprised at how terribly scary it is. Um....oh well. The deed is done and we already took the ladder back to the neighbor. Hee hee. I love this time of year!