Halloween 2019

November 2, 2019 10:09 am

On the 30th we worked on carving our pumpkins. Which means I worked on carving pumpkins since everyone else thinks it’s too gross cleaning out the inside of pumpkins.

Heather developed a cat-like design for her pumpkin. And Jess helped Corinne with a friendly-face design for hers. My design comes from the recently released game “Untitled Goose Game” in which you play a goose that terrorizes the neighborhood. Honk!

And costume pictures:

We started trick-or-treating at 6:30. The neighborhood seemed to get busiest around 7:15. Heather was scared of any decoration that looked like it might have the potential to move suddenly. Corinne was scared of any house without any decorations. But we made it down one side of the street, back up the other, and then back to the house. Then the girls were exhausted and Heather helped hand out candy while getting ready for bed (seems to be her favorite part of Halloween).

Heather’s Birthday 2019

9:58 am

Heather came home from school to find her bedroom door had been “locked.” But she had to wait for me to get home from work before she could follow the clues to open the door. (Meanwhile a plumber worked on clearing our clogged drain line, so there was plenty of entertainment in the interim.)

She followed a series of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” style “Listener Limerick Challenges” to find each new clue and solve a math problem to get the correct digit for the lock combination.

Inside she discovered her new loft bed, which she is ecstatic about.

We opened some more presents and then off to a late dinner at the Ale House.

After dinner, we had the Andes Chocolate Mint cake that Jess made:

And then her first night in her new bed.

Corinne’s First Day of Preschool II

September 6, 2019 4:47 pm

It sprinkled a little in the morning, so Corinne insisted on having her umbrella. She was excited to go, but the day apparently wasn’t what she expected. She had a few meltdowns and was pretty sad at the end. But today (she goes, Mon., Wed., Fri.) was much better. Tears only when they announced who was getting the sharing bag and it wasn’t her.