This is as close as I can come to Halloween pictures this year. Derek took the kids trick or treating, since I teach Monday nights. Charlotte and Grace made their costumes this year, with some help from Derek. They were a leopard and a lion. A trip to the Salvation Army for yellow clothes and hand sewn ears and tails and they were good to go. They weren't particularly elaborate costumes, but I loved seeing how pleased they were with what they had made. It was a fun year. Eli was Buzz Lightyear. When I showed him the jumpsuit I bought him, he got it immediately. "Buzz Lightyear!?!" he said, incredulously. "Put on. Put on."
This year we had the Halloween party at Kat's house, trick or treating at Eastern Hills Mall, a school party, a Halloween birthday party for our little neighbor that catches the bus with the girls, and actual trick or treating on Halloween night with Shawn and Cheyenne. Needless to say, it was a good haul.
This is not the costume, but some footed jammies that I scored on sale at Target the other day. He saw them in the bag and wanted them on right away. He is fully dressed underneath them in this picture. He wore them for most of the day.
Eli loves to play on the iPhone and has a long attention span for it. He a dozen or so games that he deftly navigates. He is still obsessed with letters and numbers. When he wants to use my phone he asks me, "Let's find the letters?" He likes to type in Word on any computer that is available. He always types "D-O-R-O-T-H-Y" first, like they do on Sesame Street in one of the episodes (Dorothy is Elmo's goldfish's name). He has learned the backspace key, so he types a word and makes an intentional mistake in the middle and then fixes it. It goes like, "L. A. D. D. W. Oops! Backspace. E. R. Spells ladder!" He makes you repeat the letters as he spells them, and then he tells you what it says. He can probably spell about 50 words from rote memory. He can also count to 100 now, though he usually wanders once he gets up past 40 or so.
Charlie is enjoying second grade. She has read all the Little House on the Prairie books now. She loved them. She is missing having her best friend in class with her and I think it has been harder for her to find someone to pair up with at play time this year. It's all a part of growing up and something that I went through and I imagine everyone reading this did, too, but it can be so hard to watch when you know they are struggling. Her teacher created a "book club" just for her and another little girl just today and Charlotte was telling me about it excitedly. They picked mysteries to read together, because they both like mysteries. Thank you, Mrs. Roswell!
Gracie really, really wants to learn to play the trumpet. She has tried out Derek's trumpet, and the kid can blow! She has always been proud of her ability to blow up balloons really big (and I mean, really big!). So she has decided the trumpet is what she wants to do. I am struggling to find a teacher for her, since she is only 6. So far I have struck out on Craig's List and with Community Music School. We'll keep looking.
Last, a sneak peek of some pictures we took this weekend of Charlie, Grace, Kat and Eli. There is a whole series of these, and all four have huge grins in every frame. My shutter speed was 1/200 and I still got motion blur in Grace's hands. Kid is a bit of a maniac. We took some great pictures of Kat and Heidi and Dan (and Ben and Boo), too.
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