Randoma October Happenings, Part IV

Here are some more fun things that happened in October, independent of Halloween:

Oct 25

While Elisa was at gymnastics, I took the boys to Wendy's for some $2 kid's meals.  They ate all of their food and enjoyed playing with the silly activity toys that came with the kid's meals.  Gabe was also fascinated by the soda machine! 

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Oct 26

Spirit week for Elisa at school.  This is her on 80's day.  She looked cute and awesome, but she came home a little upset because she thought that people were "making fun" of her because they were telling her that she looked like JoJo.  I told her that was more of a compliment than an insult, but it turns out that Elisa didn't even know who JoJo is! Here is her website, you can see that she is indeed dressed like Jojo! 

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Oct. 29

I hated our old entertainment center (aka junk displayer) so after much searching around on the internet for what I liked, I found this one on Hayneedle.  I also ordered the end tables and coffee table because ours were old and I wanted all the furniture to match (I hate mismatched furniture sooo much).  They came unassembled so Erik put them all together. I should mention that we did not throw out our old entertainment center; I bought $50 worth of dark brown spray paint and sprayed the entire entertainment center (outside, of course).  I figured even if I did a crap job of spray painting it, it would still look better than it did before.  Thankfully, I didn't do a crap job--the entertainment center turned out great! It was put in the loft/toy room upstairs.  

I should also mention that we also got a new TV! It was bought in conjunction with our new entertainment center--the old one only allowed a tv up to so big.  We have a huge family room--the wall is large and the couch is far away.  Our new TV is a 65" that replaced our old 48".  I think we could have gone even bigger still! We put our old TV upstairs.  The couch is much closer to it, so it doesn't seem so small. We've been using the old entertainment center as a bookshelf.  It has helped keep book clutter down to a minimum. 

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Greek fried cheese, aka Saganaki

Norwegian brown cheese.  

Ian playing with a neat toy that I thought about getting him for Christmas, but then I completely forgot about it.

Oct. 30

I had a sewing date with my neighbor down the street.  She wanted my help on some pants she's learning to sew with me for her boy.  It also doubled as a playdate for Ian and Declan! I brought some banana bread and some greek cheese, which she dredged in flour and fried in oil, and served with lemon juice.  It was delicious! I also got to try brown cheese for the first time! It is a Norwegian specialty.  It's really sweet so it doesn't quite fit into the cheese category IMO, but they call it cheese nonetheless. 

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Baby Girl got a new coat! It has a gorgeous yellow floral print lining and probably costed more to make than I'd spend on a ready-made coat, but isn't she so cute in her adorable new coat? Its nice to know that no other girl in the whole wide world has this special, unique, and beautiful coat!