This past week at school was book character week. Finn’s classroom book was ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?’ and his character from the book was the brown bear.  Throughout the week at school each of the kids painted and decorated a mask which they wore as they paraded around pre-school to show the other classes.  Cute, eh?

We celebrated Lily’s 7th birthday with a party hat, cake pops, and a sprinkle donut. We sang her happy birthday next to Cammie as it’s difficult for her to get up and stand on our wood floors these days.  They enjoyed their treats and Lily has been loving her new toy, a red ball which she drops out of her mouth and chases pretty regularly. 

We are enjoying having new neighbors. Since June we’ve gotten two new neighbors – Brian and Laura live right next door and have two little boys Cooper (4) and Cole (2). It has been great for Finn to have play buddies right outside our house! And a short bit later Bernie, Alex and their daughter Abbie (7) moved in right across the street. This year for Trick or Treat, Sam and Debbie came over and we adventured through the neighborhood with Brian, Laura, Cooper and Cole, and our other neighbors Nathan and AJ and their son Blake. It was a lot of fun to see all of the boys run up to each of the houses.  All of the dads pulled the wagons (thank goodness we used them, it still took about an hour and a half just to do our street!) and the kids got out at each stop. There is no way the kids would have made it more than 5 houses if they walked the whole thing! Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong came up to hand out candy at our house and spend time with Griffin. They kindly put him to bed so we could go down to Nathan and AJ’s and hang out for a bit on their patio, making s’mores around their fire pit and enjoying some beverages. It was a really nice evening! On Sunday we stopped at the Zoo on the way home from church. As you can see, it was a warm and sunny day – perfect for walking around outside. We had lots of firsts during this visit: 1st time Finn rode a pony, 1st time to feed the giraffe’s, and the 1st time we saw the baby lions!

 


And this was Finn by the end of the afternoon – holding his head up for a photo, and then crashing on daddy’s shoulder!

Kevin and I enjoyed another Halloween Party too – wearing our same Steam Punk costumes, but this time Kevin’s “goggles” arrived, so he used those and I got to use his old ones. This time around we won ‘Best overall costume’! It was a fun party with an outdoor scavenger hunt and a beer pong tournament.  I played with Suzy and Kevin played with Bob – but they had to leave before the tournament was over. Suzy and I made it to the finals – so Kevin took Suzy’s place, and we ended up winning, lol! It was pretty fun and we are holders of the champion “trophy” until next year’s party.