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Halloween School Costumes!

Thursday, October 31st, 2019

When Halloween falls on a school day, it’s always smarter to NOT wear your real costume to school.  Most of the time, it would be too complicated to wear, and schools have rules about masks. So Tad just wore his Halloween Garfield T-shirt, and tossed on his headband and shark fin from last year. And […]



Finally, Pumpkin Carving!

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

Yes, this ended up being a lot later than we usually carve our pumpkins.  On the up side, they had no time to get moldy before Halloween!



Art Of The Week – Abstract Watercolor

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019

The funny thing about this watercolor that Tad created in art class?  He really didn’t enjoy the randomness of it.  According to his teacher, he really didn’t like the initial “drawing of the shapes” first phase.  But when it came to actually coloring it in with watercolors? That, he did enjoy.  Abstract still isn’t his […]



Little Hawk’s Birthday Party!

Monday, October 28th, 2019

When the cousins are nearby, birthday parties are much more fun!  We got to celebrate Little Hawk’s 7th birthday this last weekend (seriously, I cannot believe that he is seven now), and he picked a dinosaur theme. And when Auntie gets a theme, she goes all out on the cake. Auntie even staged a “dino […]