sailboats & golf

The boys got costumes for Halloween this week. Ry is a "scary ghost" and Jack is a magician. There's talk of the cousins making a "haunted house" at Nicholas' and Lauren's house, where we'd meet for trick or treating this year.

Jack's cub scout pack had a sailboat regatta on Saturday. We met on Saturday afternoon at the middle school, and the boys raced their boats in rain gutters set up on sawhorses and filled with water. The regatta was followed by an ice cream social, with big bowls of ice cream and lots of toppings. Jack and I started building the boat from a kit on Thursday but the last coat of paint and glue were still drying just before the race. Jackson painted the boat in blue and yellow and put stickers all over the sail. The boat could have sailed better, but Jackson had fun.

Ry and I went to the skateboard park early Saturday. It's pretty amazing to watch him gliding along. Later he asked to use a golf club and decided that golf was his new favorite sport. He wanted to watch the golf channel that evening. Ry will only wear sports clothes, because they're "cool." Lately, he's been adopting a skateboarder look. He said he wasn't interested in the "handsome" clothes his mom ironed and set out for him for school. We told him he could be both handsome and cool. When he said he wanted to wear golfing clothes, I told him golfers wore "handsome" polo shirts, just like the ones Mom set out for him. So now he's wearing a polo shirt.