Coming Saturday, October 31st, will be Halloween and it seems like the entire country is going wild. In the past three weeks at preschool the topics were: bats, Halloween and pumpkins. Thus Theda's and Jonte's English vocabulary increased dramatically the past weeks in that direction. They talk about spiders, bats, ghosts, pumpkins, ... (and since tonight they know about vampires and talk about Dracula - I think they do not really understanding what they talk about, but they got Dracula teeth from their teacher).
Furthermore our front window of the house is decorated with cardboard pumpkins the kids made at preschool and on the steps to our door we put pumpkins as this is one of the traditions. Other houses are heavily decorated with ghosts, witches, skeletons, or other scary things.
Last Sunday Theda and Jonte were invited to their first Halloween party. They dressed up as postman and princess. Yesterday there was a field trip with the preschool going to a pumpkin patch which seems to be a must-do before Halloween. They had all the different farm animals there and a hay maze we luckily did not get lost in. Aftre some time on the farm we went onto a tractor ride to the pumpkin patch where each child could pick a pumpkin. It did not rain and we all enjoyed the day outside (not Sunke, he had to work :-( ).
... next thing was tonight - we took the pumpkins to preschool to carve them at the party. The party was a lot of fun. All kids and most parents were dressed up. Besides carving there was food, games, a costume parade and at the end all pumpkins were lit with candles.
Tomorrow there will be no preschool. So we have one day to relax before we go for "Trick or Treaty" on Saturday night. As you see this has been an exciting time!
Besides all this, we are enjoying beautiful fall days in the garden and at the different parks in Seattle. Last Saturday we made a trip to the Cascades and had a nice walk on an old railroad trail finding two geocaches on the way.
(animals in our backyard)
(Magnusen Park)
(Theda and Jonte are proud and happy about their caches)
Furthermore Narne has been very eager to figure out how to crawl. He gets on his hands and knees rocking back and forth. We are as excited as him about this!
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Halloechen ihr 5,
ReplyDeleteda will ich mal ein paar Zeilen schreiben, da das ja sonst fast keiner tut :)
Wir haben euch heute erfolgreich nachgeahmt. Der Kuerbis ist ausgehoelt, mit Gesicht verziert worden und stand den ganzen Abend dann brennend auf der Eingangstreppe. Aber was fuer ein Gemansche! Also Obstmesser und Eiskelle haben sich als die geeignetsten Werkzeuge erwiesen. Den Kuerbid mussten wir doch noch ein bisschen mehr aushoelen und haben dabei genau 1,5 kg Fruchtfleisch gewonnen, auf dass es dann morgen Kuerbissuppe gibt. Mittagessen gab es dann naemlich heute nicht. Die Kinder wurden mit Brei und Schnitte abgefertigt, und ich werde mir wohl gleich noch was hinter die Kiehmen schieben, bevor ich ins Bett gehe. Ich habe mir vorgenommen, mal frueher als normal die Augen zuzumachen. Morgen steht dann Bibliothek an, Suppe kochen, vielleicht ein bisschen basteln, Suesses besorgen (falls doch ein paar Kinder aufschlagen sollten um mit "Knask eller Knep" zu drohen)...
Na und dann wollte ich eigentlich noch "kalte Schnauze" machen. ich habe ja ewig keine Butterkekse gefunden, aber heute :)
So, was wir dann am Sonntag anstellen, weiss ich noch nicht, aber vielleicht reden wir ja davor auch noch am Telefon.
Ganz liebe Gruesse von uns drei Weibsen
eure Heike, Frida und Lerke