All things Halloween!

Halloween fun in no particular order:

I took Rose to buy this wig on Halloween day while Paige was at an oddly-timed birthday party.

A week before Halloween we went to the Great Pumpkin Trail at the RBG again.  Always a fun way to kick off Halloween for the kids.  Mike had to carry Henry through the entire trail though.  Just as well since it was dark and scary for him. They loved seeing the pumpkins and listening to the campfire music.  Grandpa joined us as well which was fun.

Henry was not impressed with wearing his Paw Patrol costume to the RBG, and still was unimpressed on Halloween night.  He would have much preferred to dress as Elsa or Anna.  After a little coaxing (ahem forcing/bribing), Mike got him ready for the night and he was ok after that.  See the first picture as a reference as to how he was feeling about wearing his marshall hat.
Now when Henry sees the character from Paw Patrol he names them, "Sky, Chase, Zuma, me...".

"Me" instead of Marshall.

The kids did our entire street together mainly with Mike, and then Henry was ready to head back home. I then took the girls out to do another street, which was the most trick or treating they've ever done.  

Thanksgiving Muskoka Style

Even though I had a debilitating neck pain, as well as a bad cold, we headed up to the cottage for Thanksgiving.  The first day was quite cold, but then it warmed up quite a bit and we were able to be outside a lot.  

Grandpa had to go in the water to take the end of the dock out of the water.  I'm sure he'll pass the torch onto Mike one of these years.  Seems like a man's job to me.  I'm much too busy with childcare and baking to be involved in a task like that. ;)

While we were listening to the neighbours and Mary Jo play a lovely clarinet concert, Rose got stung twice by a wasp in the woods.  Greg appeared suddenly carrying her out of the woods.  She was pretty upset and it seemed to hurt a lot, but at least we know she is not allergic.

It was the final visit of the year.  Always sad, and unfortunate that it is the one time of the year with absolutely no bugs (minus wasps of course).  Our next trip up will be riddled with mosquitoes and we'll be cursing the fact that we even decided to go.

Back to Gymnastics and Dance!

This gymnastics picture is not from the beginning of the year, but it shows her new professional looking suit!

Back to School!

SK, Grade 3, and Preschool!

Henry not impressed at all with me wanting to take his photo...

 Rain on the first day of school was a bit disorienting! None of the usual line ups outside of the school with the teachers.  Mike took Paige and I took Rose.

I then took Henry to an open house at his preschool.

 
And he started for real on the Thursday.  Look at those cute new shoes.

Trip to St. Albert!

I figured the St. Albert trip needed a post all to itself.  The day after the girls finished their RBG camp, we did our typical wake up at some disgusting hour, pull the kids out of bed and drive to the airport.  The journey to Edmonton was fairly uneventful, which is amazing.  Henry was tired from the early wake up and had a small nap on the plane.   He has his own seat now which is great in terms of the extra space! (and not to mention that there was a spare seat beside Mike and Rose--this makes no sense to me as they tried to upgrade mike to business class, and then he had to give his upgrade to someone else.  So bizarre to try to do that to a person travelling with their family! And then all of a sudden there was an extra seat. odd)  Henry didn't want to wear a seat belt very much, but he enjoyed the plane touching the ground when it landed so much that he wanted to keep going and demanded to put his seat belt back on.  Go figure.

I am coming back to finish this post many months after the trip! (I am so behind!).  So if there were any funny anecdotes to record, I cannot remember!

We had a great time in St. Albert, minus the less than stellar weather.  The kids still managed to play outside quite a bit, even in the water, so it wasn't too bad....just way colder than at home!!  When I asked the girls what they wanted to do at Lizzy's house they both said "Galaxy Land", so we made sure to fit that in.  We also drove to Marilyn and Hal's cottage at Pigeon Lake for some relaxing and boating.