Month: October 2007

Well we survived Halloween!  R dressed up as a Bee for school, and went trick-or-treating around the Psychology building.   She was so excited at lunch.  Her friend B from school (and church) was a “Super Mighty”.  Later in the afternoon R and I got to go trick-or-treating at daddy’s work.  She got very spoiled there.  She was bouncing off the walls by the time came for trick or treating with neighbour B.   The daddies went out with the kids.  It was so nice and warm that I sat on our porch outside and handed out candy.   Once R was home from her rounds, she enjoyed handing out candy to the big kids that were still coming around.   Everyone thought she was pretty cute too.   Let’s hope tomorrow morning at school isn’t too rough with the “after-Halloween-sugar-night-buzz”.  There are lots of pictures in the gallery.

We managed to make it to the pumpkin patch this fall.   A nice cool but sunny day finally arrived (I refused to go to the pumpkin patch on Thanksgiving when it was 30 degrees plus).   We had a delightful time wandering through rows of pumpkins.  Daddy found his perfect oval shaped pumpkin, and I found a nice little rusty/red/orange one to carve.   R picked out an orange green stripey one.  There were some odd gourds there too, and R tried one on.  Check the gallery< for a picture of that!

R wasn’t so thrilled at her last skating lesson.  Another mom gave me some advice, that R should practice wearing her skates at home.  And sure enough, she practiced getting up by herself, and walking slowly.  By the end she was dancing around on the skates.  I think it really boosted her confidence.  Here’s hoping the practice pays off on Sunday.

Yup, that’s my daughter.  There is a “Beauty Salon” set up at school.   R absolutely loves playing there.   There are lots of clips, combs, brushes, hairsprau, lotions, curlers, hairdryers, curling irons, you name it, oh and of course lots of wigs.   This was definately the funniest on her.

R had her first skating lesson today.  She was excited to be going.   The instructor came over to the boards, and we sent R out.  The assistant skated with her between her legs over a little ways in.  She worked with R for the first while showing her how to get up from the ice.   R was somewhat sucessful at this, especially when the assistant held her first skate still.   The whole class was pretty funny looking, these 10 kids wriggling like little worms on the ice.   They were pretty good about wriggling around, scooching on their butts, and crawling on their knees.   The instructor brought out toys which seemed to really motivate R to move around.   The last few minutes she worked again with the head instructor and got to standing by herself, un-assisted.   For some reason this threw her, and she started crying.   After the lesson we told her how proud we were of her, and how great she did standing on her own.  She is now looking forward to next week.  We should really all go together to a family skate, but that means that both daddy and I need to get skates.

Well R decided not to nap today…She and I were having a rough go.   What do you do?? Call a friend!  Neighbour boy B came over.   R and he played for quite a while, and I decided to bake a cake.  I very quickly acquired 2 little helpers.   The kids had a great time, and truth be told the kitchen only got a bit of flour all over it.  I added some orange coloured frosting at the end, and threw some candy decorations on and presto, we had a pumpkin cake.   R really liked the process, not so much the cake.  Oh well.

We had a lovely thanksgiving weekend.  One night we had our delightful neighbours over for a cheese fondue.  We adults had a nice time, and R was just beside herself with happiness that her dear friend B was over. 

The next night we had a yummy dinner of Vereniki (Perogies) that Oma made.  My parents were over too.  It was great to see them all at once.