Andrew is part of a Lego First league, and this week they went on a special tour of the city dump. I volunteered to drive, and spent most of my time trying to keep Oliver away from stuff. But it was actually surprisingly interesting to find out how they deal with the garbage and how they plan for long term stuff.
Probably the highlight of the week for Oliver was going to the pumpkin patch. He was supposed to go on Monday, but it was rainy and drizzly so the teachers pushed it to Thursday. I wish you all could have seen his face when he got on the big yellow school bus for the first time. He was so incredibly happy. (Unfortunately, this picture doesn't really reflect his sheer joy).
The farm also had some animal pens with calves, goats, lambs, and pigs. Oliver liked looking at everything--from a safe distance. (There was a somewhat daunting note posted to the pig pen reminding everyone that pigs eat meat, fingers are meat, so don't put your fingers in the cage!)
They stopped at a park for apple juice and pumpkin cookies on the way back to the school. And even though it meant sacrificing one of my writing mornings for the field trip, it was definitely worth it to spend the time with this guy.
Otherwise we had a pretty typical week (aside from the aforementioned writing retreat, which was much needed: I got my second edit letter this week and was a little daunted by how much work I *still* have to do. And this is my 12th time through the book! No wonder books take so long to publish.)
Here's hoping for another beautiful Fall week.
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