Happy Halloween

The day started off at Team Physical Therapy for me. I have Planter Fasciitis. It's not very realistic to have a mother of four who can not get up on her feet and go full throttle all day. I notice it every time I get out of bed and then throughout the day. When I've tried to start back on my walking routine, inevitably I live to regret it because my feet ache so bad. So the unremoved pregnancy pounds are contributing to the planter fascia and the pain from the planter fascia is keeping me from getting out and walking. Good thing that Jon got me started on biking with him.

Later in the day (in the midst of pumpkin carving) I needed to send Jon to the urgent care to get antibiotics for James. He has an ear infection. I got the ballerina fairy all made up while they were away and then he was able to take our clan trick or treating. I stayed home to greet the little princesses and gremlins that stopped by our door. I had to start giving only ONE piece of candy. Usually we all go out trick or treating together and miss half the kids, so we end up with lots of candy. This year we ran out. Jessica started volunteering to give her treats. She really liked passing out candy.

We allotted a bit more time for pumpkin carving this year. James was utterly disgusted by the pumpkin pulp. Jessica was so excited that she colored her pumpkin with markers and decorated it with stickers before we got around to carving it. We used a cat pattern where you just poke holes to make a design. It turned out pretty cute. Jacob was very ambitious to carve a spider design, but then opted for his own hand drawing. In typical fashion he spent the most time carving - even though he is the one who has lost fine motor skills in his hands (from the chemo).