Pumpkin Festival

We've been busy here in Maine enjoying the best time of the year, autumn. We've been going to many fairs and went to the Pumpkin Festival held to raise money for Camp Sunshine and to try to break the Guinness World Record for most lit jack-o-lanterns. Camp has the record but it was held in Boston so they were trying to beat it here in Maine. Boston had over 30,000 pumpkins we had 23,000. We didn't beat it but it was soooo beautiful and amazing watching all the volunteers and families trying to beat it. We had to stay until dark because I just had to see it all lit at night. Can you imagine 23,000 lit pumpkins? It was amazing. There are pics in the slideshow above.

I feel like there is always so much I want to write but then I forget once I find time to sit down.

Wicked cute thing Wesley said to me the other day. He came into my office and said, "Mom, you're a girl, right?" Uh, last time I checked. "So that means you're a female, right?" I was so impressed! Yes baby that means I'm a female. "So, you're a female, and I'm an email!" HA!!!! I don't know if he heard that somewhere or not but it caught me off guard and I cracked up!

On a more serious note, could you please keep Sean's mom in your prayers. She's been diagnosed with cancer and is receiving treatment. They found a tumor where the esophagus and stomach meet. She is very positive and so are the doctors. They will do some radiation and chemo and then surgery. Please pray for her healing.

We haven't decided what we will be for Halloween yet. I keep trying to get Wesley to be Yoda because I think that would be so hilarious. He wants to be a sith instead. I told him not to go to the dark side. I don't think he understood what I meant. I will only let him watch the Star Wars movies that aren't too scary. We'll see if we can find a different theme.

Quinn lost her front tooth and we called her Nanny McFee for about a week until the other one fell out. She looks so cute. We are going to have to start looking into braces for Collin. That should be fun.

Wesley's counts are pretty good. Platelets about 116,000 and his ANC is about 1,100. His platelets went up 10,000 from last time so that is good. I can't remember the rest but they did drop. He missed three days of school last week and soccer because he was sick but he's feeling better now. Saturday Quinn has a Brownie outing and then both kids have soccer at night under the lights. Quinn did great last soccer game and didn't come out at all and no tears. SO PROUD! I think it helped that she got to play her best friend on the other team. Maybe that was some motivation.

Wesley should be getting off the bus soon and I have to go shower. Tomorrow is picture day and I HAVE to get that boys hair cut. Once it starts to grow out it gets kinky from his hearing aid headband. He looks like he has a bad perm ;0)

Hugs to you all and thank you again for keeping Maryann in your prayers.

Kristin