Orange Blossom Special

This week Lily went on a field trip to a local farm where she fed the goats, saw some piglets and calf, and picked a pumpkin - Mom chaperoned and it was a lot of fun seeing all of the kindergartners in action.

On Saturday, we had our annual neighborhood Halloween Festival (which Mom co-planned). It started out with a neighborhood costume parade in which Jack and Lily held the banner, and culminated with fun on the moonbounce, ghost bowling, and three-legged and egg/spoon races. As you will see Lily is a vet and Jack chose to be Spiderman over Batman (will see what he chooses for Halloween). They were thoroughly exhausted and we had an early dinner with friends Andy and Jen, and an early bedtime.

On Sunday, we carved pumpkins and celebrated Dad's birthday with Grandma Gail, Grandpa Tom, and Grandpa Maurice - Lily and Jack send out special get well wishes to Grandma Phyllis.

Jack as Spidey: "I'm going to get you!" (he really has no idea who Spiderman is but he makes a cute/funny one.)

Lily wrote a book of nonfiction this week about animals, it was extremely creative and the facts were correct. Today she came home from school and carved a pumpkin for fairies, I believe it is sitting out front with leaves and sticks waiting for the fairies. She was very excited to get a new nonfiction library book which tells all about pumpkins - she gets to check out a new book every Monday. She is also very excited because she is the line leader at school this week and on Friday they have a parade in which they will dress up using vocabulary words (education for Halloween, no dress up).

Happy Halloween!


With her class at the farm.


Checking out some animals.


Petting a cow with her teacher.


Jack is trying to raid the special treat cabinet.


Spidey ready for movie night.


Spidey and the vet ready for Halloween Festival.


Parading.


Three legged racing.


Egg on a spoon.


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Carving pumpkins.


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With the wares.

Run For Your Life

Jack took his first field trip to a local farm on Tuesday - he fed the sheep and goats, picked a pumpkin, and took a hayride. He was having no part of riding the ponies, maybe next year. He rode the schoolbus with his friends like a big boy - Mom drove separately.

Jack and Lily spent the night at G Gail's and G Tom's on Friday night, they spent lots of time outdoors enjoying the nice fall weather. On Sunday, Lily and Jack participated in a Halloween Kids' Race - Lily ran the 1/2 mile and Jack ran the 1/4 mile - Jack ran the entire way without stopping once! They each got a ribbon and there was even post-race snacks and refreshments. Stuart said to Jack "Look you get a ribbon." And Jack's response was "And a snack!" They had a lot of fun and are already talking about their next race!

Lily and Jack want to send out special birthday hugs and kisses to Daddy who turns 35 on Sunday!


On the slide.


At the bottom.


Feeding some animals.


Checking out a donkey.


Jack and the Beanstalk.


Pre-race.


During race.


Post-race.


Clowning around.




Big jump.

Waterfallin'

Not too much exciting to report from the week that was. Lots of scootering and bike riding and school.

Lily and Jack both seem to be learning lots of new stuff at school. Lily is working on reading, punctuation, numbers and sorting. Jack is working on colors and going to the potty. We can't wait until he gets that skill down pat.

We had a busy weekend. Friday night was movie night with a neighbor friend watching the kids while Marcy and I went out to dinner to celebrate out an early anniversary. On Saturday we visited a local waterfall and took Daisy to the dog park. On Sunday there was some shopping and outside play.

That is about all to report. Here are few pictures from the week.


The view.


More view.


Climbing rocks.


Taking it all in,


More climbing.

Ride a Black Swan

Lots of pics and video to share this week! Lily and Jack spent Sat night with Grandma Gail and Grandpa Tom and had fun biking/scootering, and at the local fall festival. Prior to the weekend, the kids got to hang with Aunt Kelly some more!

Lily had a great week at school, she has been working on sorting and patterns, and working on writing letters/words. She is working very hard at trying to read and seems to be working on sentence structure at school - she can now identify punctuation and three letter words quickly.

Jack loves music class and comes home singing all of the songs, but dislikes Spanish, he thinks his teacher is scary, although he is the nicest man. His pictures are getting a little more detailed, less scribbling. He is making some progress with the potty, he is going a few times in the toilet each day without much fuss, Mom's goal (dream) is by the end of the year!

Have a good week!


Jack's Halloween costume.


She has the bike down pat.


Scooting around.


Riding around in style.


Pony ride.


Using the facilities.


At the Halloween Festival.


Slip sliding away.


Pumpkin picking.


Working with chalk.


A little face painting.