Today was the big day of Gingerbread House building. We had 13 or so kids over to build houses. The big girls went first, then the little girls. I ate too much candy and have felt sick for a while. I think everyone had fun. The kids pretty much have been going non-stop for most of the day.
Today was a big day. We went this morning to get our tree at the usual place up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. On the way back, we stopped by here and saw some glass blowing. Then we went to see the Los Gatos Christmas parade. Then tonight, we trimmed our tree. This year it was Sam’s turn to put the star on the top of the tree.
Elizabeth got Sam (and Margaret) to sing a few songs they are excited about. If you listen closely, at the end, you can hear the other one’s comment about how it all sounds if you were sent to you bed early. Here are a few pictures.
I got this in the mail today. Normally, it wouldn’t be that exciting. I thought that this year it was kind of interesting.
On Halloween, Margaret rode the ferris wheel that someone had built up the street. She got her hair tangled in it and it took a while to stop it and extricate her. In the mean time, an extremely large amount of hair was ripped from her head. After that, she continued on and trick-or-treated a bit more. When she got home, she was hurting and pretty much went to bed. We didn’t really know how bad it was until the next day. Elizabeth gingerly combed it out and ended up with a huge pile of hair. Luckily, because she has so much hair, the missing patch – even though it is rather large – is not really noticeable. Margaret is one tough little kid.
Warning, the click-through is somewhat gruesome. I feel so sorry for Margaret, but she is doing just fine. I think that she is more embarrassed by the whole thing than anything.
Of course today was Halloween. Katy was a 50’s girl with poodle skirt made by Elizabeth. Margaret was a butterfly. Sam was Steve from blues clues. Every day that his “Steve shirt” is not dirty, he is Steve, so there wasn’t much departure from normal here. The kids had their parade at school, we had the block party on the street, we had some friends over to go trick-or-treating on the blocked off street, and we gave out about 900 glow bracelets.
Today was Father’s Day. No pictures, but I figure I would write something up anyway. I got up early this morning and played golf with Brandon, Reese, and George. At the end, my whole family was there to have lunch with us. All the children helped us finish up the last hole. Later in the afternoon, Margaret, Sam, Katy, and I rode our bikes to the school then played on the playground and rode around behind the school. Margaret is getting better and better on her new bike. Katy is getting faster on her skates as well (she carried them there on her bike by herself). We didn’t stay long because we had to go to Palo Alto for the Father’s Day celebration with Elizabeth’s family.
Margaret’s last day of Kindergarten, they all went to the park for the day. Elizabeth and a fair number of the moms went along. Katy had a similar day in the park earlier in the week. Did you notice that not that much learning seems to be going on the last few weeks of school? We now have a 5th grader and a 1st grader. Sam will go to preschool 3 days a week next year (up from 2 this year).
Katy had her talent show today. She, Olivia, Rachel, and Morgan did a dance. The video is here. Lucky for me, they were the third act to go, so I could leave shortly after it started. Susan, Elizabeth, and Katy stayed for the whole thing.
Both Katy and Margaret had their semi-annual gymnastics show. The not real good video is here.
