October wrap up or The first of the photo binge-ing

So to finish up what happened in October.  Phil came home on leave Oct. 22nd and stayed till Nov. 5th!

Matthew loves my old ski mask because it looks a little like a Spiderman mask.  And yes, I really have kept everything.

The first weekend Phil was home we took the boy to the pumpkin patch.  He was significantly taller.

They had put in a new bigger bouncing pillow.  We had to peal him off it.

They had a new combine to play on.

Way cool, even if it was the wrong color, or maybe this is all the green ones are good for!

Then it was down to the business of finding the perfect pumpkin and I do mean perfect.  It took a long time and I'm not sure Phil was still satisfied really.  Or just gave up because his back was starting to ache.

But the boy was happy!

New 2 person trikes.  Phil took him for a spin.

And finally a cool tree fort slide.

Oct. 30th Matthew woke up and said that his jaw hurt.  Ummm, that's weird.  You're going to school.

 Finally Halloween (Wed) arrived and all the school kids were giddy!  I was worried Optimus Prime would be so last year.

Matthew woke up and announced his right leg hurt.  Ummm, that's weird, I see you are limping, did you hurt it at school?  No, you're going to school.  At 1st recess I see him.  How's the leg?  Good.

 Little did I know there would be 2 Bumblebees in the house.  Matthew told everyone who would listen that the boy next to him was his sidekick.

 The Halloween parade at school starts with the 5th grades very creative project.

 Finally the boy arrives.

 Caught up with the 3rd graders, received hugs, and told them I loved the costumes.

 Phil and I then went to Matthew party and watched them eat.  It was a little boring on our end.

Matthew is limping again.  He goes home with Dad and I go to afterschool.

Here is what I looked like all day.  Mom made the skirt.  I guess it was a hit since I had to report to the office so they could see it.

 While I was at work they boys carved Matthew's pumpkin.  Matthew designed it.

As soon as I got off at 5:15, we buzzed downtown, went trick or treating and got ready for the parade.  Matthew is really limping now and dragging his foot.  Phil announces that he looked at Matthew's legs and saw a tiny bruise on the back of the knee.  As time passes, he grows slower and more lackluster.  We finish up downtown and cruise up to the nursing home to see my Grandmom and over to the church for more trick or treating.  We have Angela in tow now.  We go to eat afterwards, 7:15, and now Matthew doesn't want to walk because it hurts, so I'm carrying him.  At 8 we get home and I take his costume off.  And what a sight.  His whole left leg is swollen and both legs have strange "hives" on them.  So we slap pjs on him, get auth. to go to the nearest er and take off.  Around 10:30 we are arriving back home with the knowledge that he has Henoch-Schonlein purpura.  He wasn't able to go to school for the rest of the week and walked very weird for awhile.  Friday his foot turned red, swelled up and had heat to it.  I paniced and came home.  After finally getting the ER docs take, it was decided that it was fine.  The swelling didn't totally go away till Monday.  It was a very frightening experience, but treatable.  I'm not sure why my son gets all the weird skin response diseases. 

And that's how we rang out the month.  Maybe tomorrow, I'll get up November's recap!