Our good friend Madeline

Coop invited Madeline and her sister Genevieve over for a play date shortly after Halloween.  We used these supplies to decorate Halloween cookies:

Playing outside in the leaves:

And early in November, we took Madeline with us to Union Station in Kansas City to see a pirate ship exhibit:

Making a list of things we thought we might see in the exhibit:

 

Pirate!

Um.... halloween stuff still!

So I'm a little behind on blogging photos.  Oops.

 

As you probably know, Coop owns many costumes.  I told him I'd buy him a new one for Halloween if he wanted (as opposed to buying a t-rex costume in June, just because he loves costumes).  He opted for spider.

Pirate pumpkin:

Maple Leaf festival:

The house near Baker that has creepy gory Halloween decorations, which Coop loves.  Surely he's going to need therapy.  That zombie guy in the wheel chair has spasms like he's being electrocuted. 

Coop and I decided to make a scarecrow of sorts:

He (she?) lived in our breezeway.  In fact, he/she is still there.  Hrmm.... maybe I should have put a santa hat on it and called it a Christmas decoration?

Fall trips

Four generations of Grants (in Iola for Grandma Margaret's 96th birthday party):

Coop and I at an Arkansas Razorbacks football game:

The band!!

Play

New Halloween stuff from Dollar General:

Cutting out articles to publish in a book (after I tried to explain how the article I wrote just got accepted from publication in a law review):

Dress up:

Eyelashes!

The King

Mud pies!!

Tooth #3

Wiggling....

Finally, he let me at it, and I yanked it out.  :)

His note to the tooth fairy:

"Dear T.F. Can you get me your own self portrait and a 2$ bill.  I missed you but not for long.  (When do you come at night by the way) Cooper"

My favorite part is the correct use of parentheses!

Crafts

Some things Cooper had made recently:

A rattlesnake (newspaper stuffed in pantyhose):

A book he wrote called Tornado Man that we copied and delivered to some friends:

Food chains:

God's Eye: 

We go visit Madeline:

After Madeline came to play at our house, we took the crazy up to her house in Lawrence.  Again, more costumes:

 

Admiring the water feature in their front yard:  

 

Doing crafts: 

 A couple of weeks later, Madeline left this note for Cooper in his school folder:

("Dear Cooper, I had a grait birthday and I thot of you the hole time beecus I loved you.  love, Madeline")

Madeline comes to visit!

Coop really, reeeeaaallly misses his friends from Miss Ann's room, so we invited Madeline over to play one weekend.  Here were Coop's welcome signs:

And Coop staring out the window waiting for her to arrive:

Costumes:

Ice cream:

 The toy closet:

The last bits of summer

Alan and Coop took a road trip to Hays to see the Sternberg Museum:

 
 

 

And they stopped in Lyons on the way home for a hiking tour around Kanopolis Lake:

 

 Coop spent one Saturday afternoon moving out into the hallway and watching the "television" he made out of a cardboard box:

We helped sponsor the Raintree reconstruction project (ie -- wrote a check) and they put Coop's name on the curb!

Some critters:



Ready for first grade!

With his teacher Mr. Joe:

I think the first week went well.  It's always a little hard to know exactly what he does during the day.  Apparently, he spent lots of time that first week reading a book about snakes.  Fair enough.