More US presidents have been born in October than any other month. Donald was born in June... Hillary was born in October... guess that's settled then...
In the UK October is the awareness month for Lupus, breast cancer, cyber security, and domestic violence. In the US it is national pizza month, popcorn month, pork month, and sausage month... at least somebody has their priorities straight!
Obviously October is a time to celebrate Halloween and Oktoberfest (and Lucie's birthday!) but it is also a month of important dates for the US, including: Columbus landing in America (October 12, 1492), Sam Houston being inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of Texas (October 22, 1836), Nevada becoming the 36th state (October 31, 1864), the US flag being formally raised over Alaska (October 18, 1867), and Harry Truman making the first presidental telecast from the White House (October 5, 1947).
Do you know why I looked all that up for you? Because otherwise I wouldn't have had anything to say! That's right - every month I have this great opportunity to write something profound and I have nothing profound to write. So... you get random facts and me just babbling. But do you know what? You're even worse. Every month you know I'm not going to have anything to write and yet you read whatever I end up putting here in the vain hope that someday it will be important or inspiring or just a little bit funny...
Enjoy the October pictures and November reality and I'll be back in a month...
 Gosh... We don't look all that different than last month... |
 Meet my new buddy, Tango! |
 Dad was trying to get creative again... |
 I had my first choir concert at school! |
 Mom really needs to stop taking these kinds of pictures if she doesn't want Dad to put them on the website... |
 Cheesecake decided it was time to join Cream Cheese... They were both great rats and we'll miss them... |
 Birthday breakfast at Elmers! Thank goodness we didn't tell them or they would have brought ice cream too! |
 Normally the dog would wear the small hat, but when have I been known to be normal!? |
 Mom insisted on giving me a birthday hug... |
 I also got a bunch of stuff from everyone... hopefully I can get through all those books before my next birthday! |
 I don't know why I'm hugging the balloon... |
 Another "designed by Lucie, created by Caroline" birthday cake... |
 Happy Birthday to me... jazz hands! |
 We went to Wings and Waves... not sure when Dad had time to take pictures since he and Mom went down the slides more than we did! |
 They had a spirit day at school just for me... "Throw Back Thursday"! |
 Then I just got lazy and used the same idea for Halloween... I'm a Hippie Chick! |