Pumkin Carving

I know it has been several days since my last post but life in the Rice family has been busier than normal since I had a mid-term to study for. Now I beleive that life is starting to get back to our normal busy ( whatever that is). The good news is that I passed my mid term yahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
We started carving our pumpkins finally last night and so far have only got 2.5 done.
Conrad wanted a vampire and Nikki just wanted a face so we got both of them finished. I wanted a 2 diminshinal rose so James is currently working on that one it is turning out really neat I will try to post pictures when he is finished with it. After that one I think we only have a couple left.
Last Sunday we went to Trunk or Treat at Nikki's school which they do every year.
They usually have a chilli contest (which I think I may enter next year we'll see), a costume contest and of course trunk or treating.
It is a really fun time for the kids. Nikki was very excited when she won first place in the costume contest and that just made her day, and mine to because this means she will let me make her costume next year. She won a pumkin and I guess you would call a lite brite kit for the pumkin it is really neat I had never seen that before.
Conrad is his normal onery self, he decided tonight that he was going to pee in the trash bag that we had put pumkin yuk in, mind you it was on the front porch, I'm sure the neighbors got a good laugh out of that.
He had me choking on my dinner tonight I was laughing so hard I had to leave the table. We had just sat down to dinner

CJ: where is my water

we of course give no response when he demands since he knows the proper way to ask.

CJ: I'm still waiting for my water ( which he repeated several times)

He eventually asked please dad may I have a glass of water so James got up to get him some water and accidently put it in front of Nikki and his response was:

CJ: did you just never listen

He is so so funny sometimes I'm not sure how he comes up with some things. We were trying to figure out what time his halloween party is tomorrow so we asked CJ if he knew what time his party started and he stated in just a minute. I think we might be saying that a little too often.
My kids are so amazing they are like night and day in personallities and it is so much fun watching them grow and learn about the world around them.