On November 6, Fort Hood held a concert to commemorate the shootings a year ago. We went to see Chris Cagle and ride the rides. Gavin, Dougie, Adam, Lottie, and Olivia are happy to check everything out.
Chris and I decided to coach again this fall, after taking a year-long sabbatical from coaching. We wanted to coach Adam, but had to get special permission to do so. He is still a year too young to play, although he is as tall as the five and six year olds. He had a good time, although it took time to adjust to playing an organized sport. He would get mad when anyone took the ball away from him - he didn't understand that it was the point of the game. He was doing better by the end of the season! 
We managed to carve one of our two pumpkins by Halloween. Adam is a traditionalist. Triangles for eyes and nose, and a couple of teeth in the mouth!
Adam insisted on dressing as Woody this year. So naturally, Lottie wanted to be Jessie. We went trick or treating with our friends, Max and Meredith (Peter Pan and Tinkerbell).
We attended another Halloween Festival at Comanche Chapel. There were horses to ride, firetrucks to tour, carnival games to play, and treats to eat. Naturally, we rode the horses first.
We enjoyed lots of Halloween fun, even before Halloween. Adam had a "fall" party at school. They decorated cookies and watched a movie.
A peek into daily life with Lottie. Tormenting the dog.
While Adam was in school, Lottie and I checked out the pumpkin patch in Harker Heights (just outside Fort Hood) twice - once with MCCW and once with MOPS. It's quite the deal. $2 for songs, storytime, a turn to bounce, a hayride, and painting a pumpkin. We started with the song station.
The day that Chris left for Afghanistan, we took Adam out of school and spent some quality family time hiking in Belton.
