What a fantastic weekend!

I honestly do not believe we could have crammed anymore into our weekend. Upon arrival at my mom's house on Friday, we were greeted with homemade manicotti and pumpkin cake. Yum is the least descriptive word I can come up with. And of course the boys were so excited to be at Ga's house, sleep was a struggle to obtain. While attempting to convince Pierce sleep was a good thing, rather than a horrendous mommy trick, Carter was upstairs yelling "kitty!" and dancing to the same son over and over on his exer saucer. It was hilarious!

Saturday morning, the comedy continued as both boys went bounding up the stairs yelling "ga! ga!" Again they were so excited to be there, that eating did not happen. Never fear, however, since Pierce saw us near a Dunkin Donuts and asked in a rather grown up way, "may we please stop and get some chocolate munchkins? I'll share with Carter". How do you say no to that? With two satisfied and happy children, mom and I finished our trip to Salem to attend one of the largest book sales I have ever seen. An entire gymnasium just full of very well organized books. I made a trip to the health section, and then the music section. The music part was awesome: I scored 3 piano lesson books and an entire collection of Mozart songs for Dan to sing. Then we went off to the children's section where I found some amazing workbooks for Pierce and Carter, and also a plethora of holiday themes books. It was also in this section that Pierce climbed up the stroller one too many times, flipped it, and landed on his chin, giving himself an instant bruise and a hefty scrape. Yup, that's my kid. But he was quickly distracted from tears through the use of my phone, and a reminder that we were headed to the aquarium after.

Upon completion of the book fair, and Carter constantly hooking the stroller with his feet while in the backpack and laughing, we headed on down to Mystic Aquarium where the boys could wear their costumes and walk around. Pierce insisted on being a monkey and squeezed his body into his costume from last year. I attempted to put Carter into his sea turtle costume, but he must of had a growth spurt from the beginning of the month. It no longer fit, and thankfully I brought Pierce's shark costume as well.

The boys had a blast checking out all of the marine life. Pierce's favorite exhibit is the sea lions. I do not understand why, but he loves those things. Carter was amazed with the lobster exhibit. There was a tunnel he could crawl through, and the glass allowed him to be eye to eye with the lobsters. Carter also decided that the aquarium would be a fantastic place to show off his walking skills. He held onto one of my hands, and walked a fairly large portion of it. Pierce helped put Carter too. "Carter give me your hand. You hold onto my hand, like this Carter, and I will help you walk. You have to walk now Carter. Please let me help." That was completely in provoked, and full of pure innocence. And it worked. Carter held on tight to Pierce's hand and walked for a bit. Pierce was smiling the whole time and so proud of Carter.

After we left the aquarium, we traveled back to Hebron with 2 sleeping children in the back. It was nice to talk without little ears around. Once home, I cleared the deck and lawn of all potential hazards in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy. We then watched The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and played with glow sticks. They had a blast with glow sticks, and were dancing around the deck. I then cut up the glow sticks and dumped them in bubbles to make glow in the dark bubbles. It did not work as well as I was hoping, but the boys thought it was totally awesome. I think I need more glow juice next time.

Today we ventured out in an attempt to find water(ha! That was funny!), fill the tanks of gas for the generator, and to purchase plumber's epoxy for a pipe that decided to break last night. Dan was a great help and kept Carter with him at mom's house. Pierce asked for Carter almost the entire time we were out and missed his brother so much.

We got back home, fixed the pipe, filled the gas tank on the generator, and then traveled back to Thomaston to clean all toys here and so I could upload pictures too! Once I left for work, Dan made a homemade pumpkin pie, Pierce played with his trains in his playroom down stairs, an Carter apparently did laps across the living room walking. I cannot believe I missed it.

Now I am finally getting the chance to lay down, exhausted to the bones and should really be headed to bed. I hope everyone stays safe during Hurricane Sandy, and hope we do not lose power like last year. I can hear the wind already, so who knows what is going to happen. Good night all!

Passed out in the car on the way home.  :)

Hello my Juno!  You are an awesome whale.

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