Slimer and Booberry

It was on sale, so we got a Ghostbusters game today, certainly because it is an October sort of thing.  This game is called "Sanctum of Slime."  It's a pretty simple concept, a twin stick shooter where you go from room to room blasting everything possible, including furniture and valuables ("Nice shootin', Tex!").

Slimer is in this game, and naturally Madison has grown attached to this lovable green nuisance.  Of course, in the game you're spending most of your time getting him to go away so you don't get slimed.  Madison shouts out, "Slimer!" when he pops in, and there we go again, firing away.  Like I said, it's a simple game.

And it's another chance for Madison to see the Ghostbusters, although this is an entirely new cast, as seen above.  The girl above is Bridget Gibbons, who of course was the character that Madison played as.  We did a few levels of this game tonight, partly in the spirit of this season, and also because there wasn't enough time for a movie or anything, given that we get home pretty late from ballet tonight.

We've been doing housework today, particularly getting things ready for the pumpkin party upcoming.  Mommy has the front of the house looking very nice, in fact.  As does the great room as well.  We have the canopy set up in the back, and just in time, the temperature is dropping to something that is much more like fall weather than what we've been experiencing lately.

Meanwhile at school, Madison has been taking tests.  Tests, tests and more tests.  She literally took four today, and has more tomorrow.  She had several last week too.  She's being tested for the gifted program, and while that's going on there are the regular tests to take as well.  It's this huge concentrated week of tests, which is just crazy really.  Why not space things out a bit more?  She seems to be taking it all in stride though.  It helps to be naturally bright in some areas, as she is.  Math is something she just doesn't have to think very hard about, as it just naturally comes to her.

So we had dancing tonight, which was fun for the girls.  Daddy snuck over to Kroger to get a few items before coming back and doing some updates on the computer.  With this new Get a Clue game we have going at the church, the email has been crazy lately.  A lot of families are involved, and it's fun to see.  Daddy is the checkpoint for a lot of emails coming in, all with photos of families on the hunt to solve a mystery.

Speaking of which, we're really close to discovery the mystery of the bungalow house with Nancy Drew.  We should be done with it soon, which means we have to go get another one from the library soon!  That might be the big book series for the year, as Madison has been really into it.  Also, we're reading the new "Get a Clue" devotional, which turned out really well.  It has a Sherlock Holmes theme, which is really fun.

We cracked open some pumpkin cider today, a tradition around October.  Madison and Daddy usually share a bottle of pumpkin cider from Aldi's, and in Madison's case, it's guzzled down pretty fast.  She loves that stuff.  It's seasonal delicious fun to go along with dinner.  Each year we look for it now, almost like we look for the sacred three October cereals, which by the way we've bought more of.  You can never have too much Count Chocula, Frankenberry or Booberry.

And there's the second ghost of this posting, Booberry.  Must be a season for that sort of thing.