Scarcrow Festival

I took the kids to the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving point on Friday October 16th. The festival is put on by the kids at the boys and girls club who are struggling with different challenges in their lives. It is pretty pricey to get in and then you have to pay for a lot of the other activities which is a little annoying. I guess my money is going towards a good cause though. The kids had a great time. There were lots of blowup slides and games for the kids to play. Dex had a blast with his friend Jake on all the blowup's. Of course, Oci didn't want anything to do with them they were "scary!" I got her to go down one slide with me and that was it for her. Her ticket was pretty much a waste of money. Oh well what can you do!

Karate

Dexton began taking karate lessons this week. As many of you know he has been waiting all summer long to take lessons. Because it is a six month commitment I told him we had to wait until the fall. He is loving every minute of it! Yesterday he passed off some things to get his white belt. His instructor had him break a piece of wood with the back of his hand! He was so impressed by himself! He was able to bring the wood home with him, which is now in two pieces. He was trying to break one of the pieces again with his hand like he had at his lesson. I finally said, "Dexton, the wood was split a little bit in order to help you break it. I don't know if your going to be able to do that again without it being split a little." He was a little disappointed. After that, I didn't have the heart to tell the poor kid his instructor helped break the wood too!