Halloween 2008

Jack couldn't quite figure out what he wanted to be for Halloween until about 2 1/2 weeks before. Well, that was about the time we were leaving for vacation, so we didn't order a costume just to have it sit on the front porch for a week. Yep, ordered... Jack wanted to be Larry Boy. Larry Boy is the superhero version of Larry the Cucumber from Veggie Tales. There are no commercial costumes out there for this character. Even the regular Larry costumes are sparse. There is a lady of eBay who makes great Larry Boy costumes, though. However, when we got back from vacation it was October 26. By that time the prices on her costumes had sored to $60. By the time I thought about it they were $75. Needless to say I was then in a delimma. I had Jeff buy the regular Larry costume. We had a Larry Boy hat from the Veggie Tales show. So, I went out to JoAnn's Fabrics to get some purple and yellow materials. I made a purple cape that Jack liked wearing. Then made a superhero shirt that was never touched. In fact, when October 30 came along and the Larry costume arrived, Jack decided he didn't want to wear his Larry Boy accessories at all. It was a little sporadic. Plain Larry for school and some of the grandparent's houses. Larry Boy for others. This year we went to all the great-grandparent's houses to Trick or Treat. It was a long drive but nice to know that they got to see him in his costume this year. Likely in the future we will just stick around our house and do the door-to-door thing.

St. Augustine

So the three of us took a trip down to Florida this fall. It was great! The weather was a little cooler than I had wished, but we still got in some time at the beach without being terribly uncomfortable. Actually, once you got in the water it was fine.

We met with Great Aunt Kathy, her friend Jan, Jan's daughter Leslie, and granddaughter Natalie. During two different outings we ate dinner in downtown St. Augustine at Columbia. And we went to Spooktacular at the Jacksonville zoo.

Mr. Freddie gave us the grand tour of his "pirate" ship. Jack liked sitting in the captain's seat at the dinner table and "pretend talking" on the phone.

October and New Doc #2 for Mommy

Wow! October brought doc #3 to TCHC! I (Crystal) and super excited but am sure that Jeff and Jack will be equally excited once things die down from the transition. It means that we have 3 docs in the call rotation now within our practice and 5 for weekends when you add Cumberland Peds. Too exciting for words!

Welcome, Dr. Claycomb!!!