Halloween and Catch Up

I have just been so delinquent on posts lately - this is going to be mainly a picture post.

We had a fun Halloween - the girls dressed up three times! First was Family Friday, then at pre-school on Monday, arnd again for the evening of Trick-or-Treating. Predictably, Lucia was more into it than Magdalena, but they both had a good time. And Mama and Dada are still having fun eating their candy. :-)



This is before Halloween (a week or so) - but a very cute pic of Magdalena on the giraffe that she got from our ayi in China for her first birthday. I need to print the picture to send to Juanzi!

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Here's Lucia on the same - not to be outdone!

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Lucia got a small scratch on her nose one day and insisted on a band-aid for it. She was talking like a duck for the rest of the evening, but didn't want to take it off till bedtime!

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Alex carved our token Halloween jack-o-lantern - he did a stellar job!

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We endeavored to get some (good) pics of all the kids who dressed up for Family Friday on Oct 28. Here is the best one my iPhone took:

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And here is the best one someone else sent out. You will notice that Lucia is a different princess on Friday than she will be on Monday...!

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On Mondays, Lucia has Soccer Shots at the pre-school before class starts. It is very hard to take decent pics, both due to the light and the motion! But here are a few attempts:
Sitting on the ball listening to Coach Melissa:

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Dribbling skills:

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Waiting to go out for a "scrimmage"!

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Magdalena in her U of O Cheerleader costume waits patiently and watches from the sidelines. She can't wait till she's big enough to do soccer too!

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Lucia changed into her Cinderella dress after soccer for the school parade:

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Here is a short clip of the Halloween Parade at the girls' pre-school:

This is the closest to a good picture I could get of both girls together:

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They're together - and it's just kind of funny!

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Lucia looks like she is forlornly awaiting her prince!

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Hope everyone had a very HAPPY HALLOWEEN!