Halloween Carnival

When Josh turned 2 last January I was worried that he was having hearing problems because he was not talking well. Most of his words were just grunts and the few words he did have for things were not the English words for them. He would say Boo Boo for train and Waha for Grandpa, and Joseph was Go Go. Everything else sounded like hehahe or eerg. So the doctor referred me to Early Intervention to have his hearing tested. After testing I was told he could hear just fine, but they did recommend I put him in their speech program.

Since then, Janene has come to our house twice a month to work with Josh on his speech. He loves it when she comes to play and he is always excited to see her big yellow bag of toys. He has improved a lot and is talking better all the time.

We have also been able to enjoy a few activities at the school with the other children in the program. Last night they had their Halloween Carnival. So the kids got into their costumes.

Notice that they are all wearing something different than what they wore to Red Butte. I wonder what they will wear on Halloween. Emily is going to be a Vampires She is trying a wig this time instead of the spray and we did a little more with the make up. This made Joseph scared of her and when Emily walked towards him he ran away crying. I eventually talked him into standing next to her for a picture, but he was still crying. He also cried when he realized he had to sit next to her in the car, but by the time we got there he was OK. He told Emily that he wouldn't cry anymore, but he wasn't going to hold her hand.

The Carnival was lots of fun and everything was free. We had a yummy dinner of hot dogs, Cheetos, root beer and doughnuts.

There were two big rooms with lots of carnival games in them.

After the kids tried the game they got a prize weather they won or not. The games were geared toward young kids, but Emily was a good sport and did them all right along with her brothers. (the prizes were worth it)

When we got to pin the tail on the donkey all Josh saw was a big blown up donkey with a target on it's bum so Josh ran up to it and attacked it.

The boys loved the pumpkin bowling.

and the basketball.

My favorite game was trying to catch a bug with a spider.
(I didn't play but I thought the game was really cute.)

After we had done everything I announced that it was time to go home.

Josh was not happy about leaving, but when I told him we got to go home and look at the candy and prizes he won, he grumpily stomped out to the car.