Fall activities

What have we been doing lately?

2 kids on swim team

1 playing on the most wonderful, friendly, and UNDEFEATED football team EVER

1 child playing soccer

1 child taking ballet and in swimming lessons

4 children in their own scout troops

5 kids with homework--seriously, homework in preschool!

1 husband trying to support a family, be cubmaster, teach primary, and be an assistant scout master to an 11 year old scout troop

2 kids in honors chorus meeting at 6:45 AM!!!!

3 children in their school's chorus

1 child in Orchestra & Swingin' Strings

4 children taking piano lessons

1 Mom driving these 5 kids to all their activities!

Whew!

Fall is anything but boring!

Naperville's Riverwalk

November 4th came with a day off of school for the boys. I got to attend parent-teacher conferences in the morning. We then ventured over to pick up Emma from preschool where she showed off her brothers to her teacher. After lunch, I had to get us out to enjoy this gorgeous weather, so we headed down to the riverwalk for some fun at the park, feeding the ducks, a stop at the local bookstore, and an ice cream stop. Despite the complaints of thirst and tired feet, we had a lovely day.

I have to explain this picture below. For those of you who don't know Evan, he's a funny kid. I have to tell him to stop reading encyclopedias multiple times a day. We've also banned the phrase, "Did you know...." He can't get enough information about anything and everything, especially animals. Well, while we were strolling down the path, he was explaining to me that if a goose ever tries to attack you, you just raise your arms up in order to increase your size and they'll be intimidated by you. He was not being attacked at this point by anything, but I think it was all preliminary--just making sure nothing tried to question his superiority. :)

Evan, you crack me up!