Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

It is almost time for Halloween and it is awfully scary out there. All of the sudden the weather has gotten colder here in hot-lanta and it is getting darker much earlier. The wind has been whipping viciously making it feel even colder. It is a good thing that my costume is very warm. I am going to be a white tiger, a costume that I wasn’t that fond of at first but now I have grown to accept.

There are some other scary things out there as well. First, I don’t know why but my toys have begun to make noises in the middle of the night….for no apparent reason. Second, Daddy’s truly heroic consumption of Halloween candy is a bit scary. Third, the people on CNBC have been even scarier than usual with their talk of crashes and recessions, and bears. Daddy says that if this keeps up he and Mommy will still have enough money to send me to college but it will be either clown or barber college, not the university kind.

And the scariest thing of all is that right now is that I wish Will Ferrell and Tina Fey were running for President and Vice President instead of the other choices.

To take my mind off these scary things, Mommy and I visited Berry Patch Farms with my MOPS group (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers). You can see Tyler, Luke, and Maylen in a lot of the pictures below.

Music Class on Wednesday's

Tyler and I at "The Music Class".

We go to class each Wednesday. We play instruments, sing, and dance with our Mommies. This Wednesday is our last class. Maybe will will take another music class next year. We have moved on and we are taking swimming lessons at the YMCA on Tuesday's and Thursday's. I guess I should start looking for a new daily planner at Target to keep track of next years events!

My trip to Pennsylvania

Last week Mommy and I visited Pennsylvania, the state with 21 electoral votes whose voters are likely to vote for change in early November. Mommy and I got to see the entire family and you can see some of the pictures from our trip below. Daddy didn’t come with us. He went on his annual trip to South Carolina, the state with 8 electoral votes whose voters are likely to vote for mavericks and Tina Fey.

Grandpa Ray feeding me.

The Carnival

This week the Carnival rolled into town. We went with my friend Olivia, Aunt Mary, Uncle John, Grandpa, and Great Uncle Mike.

It was really cool. We went to the petting zoo, watched an alligator show, ate a sausage sandwich, ate some ice cream and walked around a lot. I am a little too young to go on most of the rides.

We also watched a diving show which was pretty exciting – At the end, one of divers plunged 85 feet into the tank. The only bad part of the show was having to listen Daddy tell me “see, if you don’t do well in school you will be wearing funny clothes and diving into a tank in front of a couple dozen people.”

After that I was thirsty so we went to get some lemonade at one of the stands. While Mommy stood in line, Daddy told me “see if you don’t do well in school you will be squashing lemons and adding sugar.”

Then we went to play one of the games that seemed so easy. All you had to do is bounce a ball into a laundry basket and you could win a massive stuffed animal. Aunt Mary tried unsuccessfully and lost $5 in about 6 seconds. As the man added the $5 bill to his stack of cash, Daddy told me that perhaps he overestimated the benefits of formal education and that Carnival life wasn’t so bad.