Sunday, October 28, 2007

Our weekend

What a weekend. On Friday, we went to a Halloween party at a rec center north of here. Games, candy, bounce houses, hay rides, etc. Came home to find our secret pal gift for October had arrived. B's mini-pal sent him a Batman backpack, some Batman pens, and a kit to make Scooby Doo magnets. This is the happy dance that the backpack brought on:


And this is the rest of his gift:


There were also two books for little Miss E -- "I Love You Like Crazy Cakes," a Chinese adoption classic, and "Little Miss Spider," about a little spider who can't find her mommy. B test-read these Friday night and pronounced them to be outstanding. There were also some fun little scrapbooking doo-dads that will be wonderful to have when I get around to scrapbooking our China trip, a bookmark, and a beautiful card. Thank you secret pal!

And after all that excitement, who wouldn't want to go outside & throw fistfuls of leaves around like a crazy kid? He's a human tornado, I tell ya.


Saturday was Boo at the Zoo (costumes & trick-or-treating) in the morning, followed by his preschool's Fall Harvest Party (very carefully crafted NOT to be a Halloween party. How very PC). Another bounce house here. This was the only second he stood still all day Saturday:


Sorry, no zoo pictures. Not that I didn't take any -- trust me, I did, and they are super-cute. But the costume is under wraps & will remain top-secret until Halloween.

Parting shot:

3 comments:

4D said...

A busy, bouncy fun weekend!

Keep smilin!

Mamacita said...

oooh, an intrigue. I'm excited for the unveiling. And those are some cute tornado pictures! Does he get shy around new kids/situations or is he always a tornado?

J said...

He's shy in new situations & around people he doesn't know, but only for about 5 minutes. But then he's holding their hands while he climbs up their legs to do back flips off their bellies. He didn't used to be shy at all -- it's kind of a new thing that evolved over the last year.