It's the Great Uncle Al, Charlie Brown

As with his birth many years ago, we enjoyed our traditional Halloween festivities with the lovable, huggable Great Uncle Al. The kids all had a blast playing with The Great Uncle Al. He arrived on a Wednesday and was treated to a rousing night at the bowling alley, which Andrew, Chris and I missed. However, we all had some quality family time on Halloween night and Saturday night.

The Halloween night photos are marinating in Martha's camera, and I will add those to the Chubby Cub 2 someday....

Here are the events from Saturday night's excitement.

Andrew, Macy, and Jack spent some quality one-on-one time with Al and took turns deciding if they trusted Uncle Great Al. I wouldn't say they welcomed immediately, but things began to look up for Al shortly thereafter.

Below: Macy has been caught on camera doing what she does best... looking for food.

Soon, Martha's kids were won over with food.

After the feeding, the love fest began with board games. Poor Great Unlce Al never had a chance. Jack may seem sweet, but he's a Spiderman Memory Shark. In the picture below, he is literally schooling Al in the ways of Spiderman Memory. Al lost 21 to 13 (I think...). Either way, Jack taunted him the rest of the night. There's nothing quite like the sting of losing to a four year old and his 2 year old sidekick.

After games, we all grabbed some of my mom's amazing brisket and settled in to watch football. We were so full throttle that Scott rigged another T.V. in the family. Everyone got to watch the game of their choosing. Although, we didn't all get the outcomes we would have chosen for our teams. Then we headed to the front room, so Great Uncle Al and the three Cheeseballs could have a photo op. Here are the shots worth sharing. Getting everyone to smile at the same time proved to be very tricky. In order to get Andrew to smile, I sang The Itsy Bitsy Spider. Great success!! Andrew smiled! Look at Macy... She was no match for the intoxicating rythym of The Itsy Bitsy Spider, so her hands had to sing along.

Now, if you didn't already notice, look closely at Great Uncle Al's eye color and Andrew. They are strikingly similar with those baby blues. We had lots of fun with Great Uncle Al, and maybe someday we'll make it up to visit him and Great Aunt Audrey in the frozen tundra.

:)

Anne