Apple week

We just got home from our first dinner invitation. Sunke's colleague John and his family invited us yesterday to come to dinner today. They have two sons, aged 4 and 7 - a perfect fit to our kids. We had spinach calzone and it was a very nice evening. I can imagine and hope that it was not the last time that we met. For us this was also a good introduction into Halloween traditions. Their entire house was already decorated - pumpkin in front of the house, spider nets and ghosts everywhere - even a ghost in a cage hanging down the ceiling in their living room and if you yelled at it, it made really spooky sounds. I expected Theda and Jonte to be scared, but they thought it was hilarious - we will see how they sleep tonight :-).

Yes, it is fall - and that means getting ready for Halloween. In front of the houses you see more and more pumpkins. Theda and Jonte get really excited about the pumpkins on our morning walks through the neighborhood. I think one of the next days I will go to the store with them and get one for our house. Since they also want me to cook pumpkin soup, we can use pumpkins anyway. The stores are filled with orange and black candy - candy is piled up everywhere - just like before christmas and easter in Germany.
... so slowly Theda and Jonte have to make up their mind how they want to dress for Halloween and we have to get costumes ready for them. (Sunke thought, we could skip Halloween this year - but I think there is no way - they are already too excited about it and learn about it in preschool and I guess it will be the dominating topic during the next weeks.)


And since it is fall, the topic at preschool this week is "Apples and the letter A". Yesterday they made applesauce, today they tried different kinds of apples (one mom told me, that Jonte really liked the apples and had quite a lot of them) and tomorrow they will press apple juice.

By the way I made some pictures of the preschool from the outside for you and I hope to catch some inside shots later.

But the actual big news are: Narne got his first tooth on Sunday! He is quite grumpy during the day and wakes me up at night two to three times. So lets hope that will get better soon again!

Other than that we are all very tired at the moment. Theda and Jonte are quite tired from their preschool experience. The preschool time forces us to give up their noon nap which they could need right now so badly. Narne doesn't get a good noon nap on preschool days either and I am trying to handle these tired kids which results in me being really tired as well - so I try to sleep as much as I can - so sorry, if it takes me a while to answer emails right now.

So hopefully more soon - I'll go to bed now.