Happy Halloween!

We had a full day today.  There was a little parade at school.  Most of the kids didn't come in costume and their parents dressed them in class...or at least tried to.  A couple of kids refused to wear their costumes and cried.  We had to coerce Emi-chan to wear her Angry Bird costume I made.  

 I'm not so sure about this...

She wore it for the parade and it came off as soon as it was over.  Then, we went inside and played games and made crafts.

 March, march, march!

 Rick drawing a crowd

 In the evening, we took Emi-chan out to do some trick-or-treating.  The kids at school practiced trick-or-treating at school all last week and I tried to remind her how to go up to a house, knock or ring the doorbell, then say, "Trick-or-treat!"  In real time, she did fine ringing the doorbell and when it was time to say, "trick-or-treat," she would say something like, "doggie!" or "aaaah!"  But that's okay.  She made out like a bandit and brought home tons of candy for mama herself.  

Boo!

Genius!

Today, when I dropped Emi-chan off at school, her teacher, Miss B, and her assistants were so excited to see me.  Miss B said that they forgot to show me something Emi-chan had done a couple of days ago.  Miss B brought out an alphabet puzzle and a toy mushroom.  She said, "Emi-chan can spell a word!"  We watched Emi-chan pop out some letters and this is what she spelled:

Yup!  The first word Emi-chan spelled on her own (other than her name) is "Pixar."  She used the mushroom like the lamp on the Pixar logo and stomped on the "I" so it would fall over.  So proud of her!  I think I need to cut back on how many DVD's she watches a week. 

New Foods!

Every once in a blue-green moon, Emi-chan will try a new food.  Her recent adventures included:

 Vanilla Yan Yan

(a sweet pretzel stick you dip in a...dip)

 Red Velvet Cake

Miso Soup

Unfortunately, Emi-chan didn't really like the foods so she refuses to try these foods again, let alone anything new.