Thanksgiving at School

Wee Care held a Thanksgiving Day today.  The students were encouraged to dress up in a way that depicted an aspect of their cultural heritage.  AK proudly wore her vinok with a beautiful dress.  She was pleased as punch to get all dressed up. 

We have had so much fun lately.  Last weekend was busy but loads of good times.  Friday night, we attended a Thanksgiving dinner put on by the school.  While Richard ran AK's bags out to the car, she showed me how she likes to play hopscotch.  She fell backwards on her bum and popped right up and said that she was fine.  At that point, her classmate David ran up and gave AK a big hug, which made AK giggle.  She then told David that she'd "hurt my bum bum!".  Hilarity...  thank goodness she didn't ask David to kiss her bum-bum better... 

On Saturday we had a lovely visit with Sue and Kylie.  The girls are at a perfect age where they can play together and have a great time - which they did for about three hours!  It was nice for Sue and I to be able to visit and not have to mediate fights or tussles!  Saturday night we headed downtown to watch the closing fireworks of Pirates Week.  This was the first time that AK enjoyed the fireworks and didn't flinch from or complain about the sound.  It was a beautiful colorful display and I'm so glad we were able to watch from the balcony at work.

On Sunday we headed over to Dart Park to a classmate's birthday party.  AK played hard and came home as dirty as I've ever seen her!  We have another birthday this coming weekend so I'm sure that'll be a great time too.

All dressed up

At Camana Bay with Matthew McQueen, Hunter the Pilot and Gracie the strawberry <3 br="br">

Beautiful Sleeping Beauty xo

I wasn't able to go trick or treating with AK this year but some very thoughtful friends shared the photos above with me.  Sounds like AK had a great Halloween!!!  

ps - sorry about the sideways photo...  I've rotated it several times and it keeps loading up sideways for some reason.  Ah well!

Special Education Service

First Baptist held a special education service about a month ago (a little behind, am I?) and she and I attended.  AK and her class performed a couple of songs near the beginning of the service, and they did really well!  AK had no fears or nerves about being in front of such a big audience.  Such a brave girl!  Click here for the video... 

About 5 of the girls in AK's class sat together during the rest of the service, about an hour and a half!  They behaved tremendously well and were excited just to be together for a while.  They all sat in a row along the pew, and talked and giggled (mostly quietly).  When one had to go to the washroom, they all got up and went.  So cute how young they are, yet they're already going to the washroom together!

Pumpkin guts!

Ewww pumpkin guts!!!

Not sure Richard likes the guts anymore than AK does!

 

Glamour shot!

Thick as thieves, these two are! 

Voila - Jack the Pumpkin!

AK and I introduced Richard to yet another tradition this year - pumpkin carving!!!  We had a blast...  the pumpkin was reasonably thin and soft and so was very easy to carve.  Still didn't keep me from worrying that someone was going to carve a thumb right off!

I saved the pumpkin seeds to roast but I guess there was a bit of water in the bowl and they sprouted instead...  had I realized, I would have eaten them right away as apparently they are quite good about 12 hours after they've sprouted.  Any longer, and they get bitter.  That I know...

We gutted the other pumpkin and I roasted them both.  This one above got made into pumpkin soup and the other one was just roasted and frozen for future baking.  I meant to do make some pumpkin bread / muffins with AK tonight but she is off to her daddy's tomorrow and Richard and I aren't around this weekend, so I decided to wait until next week and then AK and I 'll make an evening of it!  I managed to dry some of the seeds from the other pumpkin as AK needed some to take into school for planting so I'm glad I was able to get that done properly! 

And then there was turkey!

Thanksgiving table

AK and I introduced Richard to Canadian Thanksgiving this year.  We had a lovely supper that Richand I put together - turkey breast, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatos, meatballs, carrots!  And we even had pumpkin pie for dessert!

I can't quite recall what AK was thankful for but it was something like princesses, or fairies, or sparkles, or rainbows...  you know, the usual stuff that a 4yo is thankful for.  She really seemed to enjoy sitting down for a nice family meal together although she wouldn't eat half of the food...  the stuffing was "too spicy" and the mashed potatoes were just "yucky" but she did eat the turkey with gravy! and carrots and even a meatball or two.