Halloween
The boys had a good time on Halloween this year. We had a family Halloween party on the Monday night before Halloween, including our traditional soup and bread-stick bones dinner, some kind of a drink with green ice cubes and worms, bobbing for apples, eating donuts from a string, and pumpkin carving. On Wednesday night (Halloween night) we had invited over a group of 7 Indonesians for dinner. They are taking an intensive English language class (run by the church) during the day and then go over to church members’ homes in the evening to practice speaking.
Some mothers at the school organized trick-or-treating on Friday, Nov. 2. The families that live around the school sign up and then the list of houses is handed out to those that signed up. Creed took Mallory, Luke and Nash (Grant was at one of his good friend’s birthday party) around in the car to the homes while I sat here and handed out candy.
The week after trick-or-treating Mallory came to me holding the DVD of Mickey Mouse Club House Halloween special. On the back of the DVD is a picture of Mickey Mouse trick-or-treating walking from house to house. Mallory looked at me holding the DVD and pointing at the picture. She had a scowl on her face and she said to me: “MOM! We not ‘posed to drive to go trick or treat. We ‘posed to WALK!” She was so mad she had to go in a car to each house.
Mallory’s Birthday
We can’t believe Mallory is three. She had a great birthday. It was a Saturday, which is always nice since everyone is usually home. She was so excited to open her presents in the morning. We let her open a couple of them at breakfast and saved the rest for the evening. While she was admiring her presents in the morning, we were telling her to open them. She just kept smiling and clapping her hands and jumping up and down. Every once in a while, she’d reach down and turn the present around and then just look at it. Finally, she leaned over to Luke and said, ‘Um, how do you open it?’ We all started laughing and Luke showed her how to rip the paper.
She was a very gracious little three year old, exclaiming pure excitement at each and every present even though she didn’t know what they were and also immediately saying, “Oh Thank You!”
Her request for the style of birthday cake kept changing. Finally she settled on a “Mallory Cake.” I wasn’t sure what that was supposed to be so I made her a Cinderella cake.
Talent Show
Grant and Luke signed up for the talent show to perform Snowman II. They polished up some of their moves and added new ones. It was pretty funny and the facial expressions were great. The talent show was last Friday and the boys were a hit. The crowd even cheered as they were being introduced. I’ve had several parents tell me the boys will be super stars some day. Another Mom was disappointed that we are moving at the end of the year and won’t be in the talent show next year. She said her family looks forward to it.
Soccer
Grant and Luke finished up the soccer season last Saturday with a long tournament. They enjoyed the season, made some new friends and improved quite a bit. We now have a break for a few months since the boys aren’t interested in playing baseball. It looks like Luke wants to do basketball again, which starts in February and Grant is going to start the swim team in January.
